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Any recommendations for a system like this that runs on old smartphones as cameras?
I'm surprised more video surveillance software does not leverage the APIs of the cameras. Network cameras have built in motion, object, line cross, and facial detection. The work is done in the camera and the APIs allow you to subscribe through call backs or server side events. You could support event recording for at least a half dozen cameras with a raspberry pi. I've prototyped this but it ended up on my shelf of…
Interesting. I’ve been building a home camera network and the state of this space (the nvr software) is pretty abysmal: zoneminder, blueiris, shinobi, etc… gonna take this for a spin. This is a terrible name for an open source project though.
Interesting. I’ve been building a home camera network and the state of this space (the nvr software) is pretty abysmal: zoneminder, blueiris, shinobi, etc… gonna take this for a spin. This is a terrible name for an open source project though.
The name is a giant red flag. If someone doesn't care about a giant name conflict of a very uncommon word with a very common project, then they just brush it off with rationalizations, it makes me wonder what other reasonable things they are willing to ignore.
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It’s like they didn’t even Google the name first.
It's surprising that anybody working on something related to security and computers would have to Google that name. But yeah, goes to show that Windows is not absolutely omnipresent.
Interesting. I’ve been building a home camera network and the state of this space (the nvr software) is pretty abysmal: zoneminder, blueiris, shinobi, etc… gonna take this for a spin. This is a terrible name for an open source project though.
Other than the windows dependence, what’s the issue with blueiris? I’ve tried the others you’ve listed as well and found it to be the most robust by quite a bit. I wish the web interface were better, and having to use a reverse proxy or vpn to get mobile access is also… meh.
I’m not even going to run Windows clients.
It’s a shame they can’t do a containerized version of BlueIris. That is something I probably would run, so long as I could avoid running Windows.
Interesting! I was just setting up Shinobi but this looks really good too. I don't like the idea of having one docker per camera though.. But I'll give it a try.
I tried Shinobi but gave up, I even spent some time on bug reports/issues/with their community. My major issue with Shinobi was each stream is processed by ffmpeg and I had 10+ cameras all requiring 10% cpu each to handle any object/motion detection. The cameras had object/motion detection functionality built in so I figured it made more sense to just do that work on the camera and not on CPU. I also tried offloading…
You would need ffmpeg only if you’re going to do motion sensing, and the recommended way of doing that is to run it on a separate stream that is lower resolution and lower frame rate, which you can the monitor and take actions on the main stream for that camera based on what you detect in the lower bandwidth stream.
I agree that you don’t want to do a lot of ffmpeg processing all over the place.
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Other than the windows dependence, what’s the issue with blueiris? I’ve tried the others you’ve listed as well and found it to be the most robust by quite a bit. I wish the web interface were better, and having to use a reverse proxy or vpn to get mobile access is also… meh.
it’s Windows. I’m not going to run a Windows server. I’m not even going to run Windows clients. It’s a shame they can’t do a containerized version of BlueIris. That is something I probably would run, so long as I could avoid running Windows.
Interesting. I’ve been building a home camera network and the state of this space (the nvr software) is pretty abysmal: zoneminder, blueiris, shinobi, etc… gonna take this for a spin. This is a terrible name for an open source project though.
Other than the windows dependence, what’s the issue with blueiris? I’ve tried the others you’ve listed as well and found it to be the most robust by quite a bit. I wish the web interface were better, and having to use a reverse proxy or vpn to get mobile access is also… meh.
I fucking hate maintaining Windows infrastructure. Everything that should be straightforward is a nightmare.
This post couldn't have come at a more perfect time. I recently got a call from a client who couldn't access their Unifi Cameras remotely anymore. Apparently the EOL for the self-hosted Unifi Video was was announced last year. And the replacement solution is no longer self-hosted and is a hardware solution that costs a few hundred dollars to keep the system up to date.
Careful with that. Ubiquiti doesn’t support ONVIF (industry standard for triggering motion alerts) and stopped supporting RTSP on their new stuff IIRC. You’re going to want to do a ton of testing if you’re keeping those cameras.