I’m planning to set up a CCTV system to watch around a building. Anybody running Shinobi or something? And if so, what hardware are you using? I bought some cheapo v380s but the ones I got are honestly hot garbage.

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I started with zoneminder. When it worked, it worked “OK”.

    Getting AI-based object detection working in it, felt pretty hackish.

    After it stopped working a few times, without notifications, I ended up picking up a blue iris license.

    Blue Iris, itself, has been 100% rock solid. Its only disadvantage, it requires a windows device to run it on. (Although- there IS a docker container which emulates it using WINE). But- overall, it has every feature you could ever want in an NVR, and its reliability is hard to beat.

    I run it on a 100$ optiplex with an i5-6500 and 8G of ram. There is a dedicated 8T HDD for long-term storage, and a cheap 500G “burner” NVMe for caching content, and batching to HDD.

    I also, run Frigate. Its object detection is quite well, and REALLY FAST. (I want alerts BEFORE somebody is already knocking on my door). It does have a lot of NVR functionality, however, its not on the same level as blue iris. But- it does work extremely well for object detection.

  • sylverstream@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve tried many, including QNAP and Zone minder in my RPi4. I’ve landed with Frigate on my RPI4. Works like a charm with 2 web cams. Much more than this and you will need a GPU like Coral but those are almost impossible to find. It’s hooked up to Home Assistant for eg notifications.

  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s not the cheapest, but I have had very good luck with Synology. Works with almost every camera on the market, including everything that supports ONVIF or RTSP. Good client software for web, desktop, and mobile. Has tons of tweaks and features.

    • Someology@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I second this. Good things to know include:

      • Each Synology NAS comes with Surveillance Station licenses for 2 cameras. You can use any 2 compatible cameras. You can switch out cameras for new ones, as long as it’s just 2.

      • If you need more than 2 cameras you can buy additional license pack bundles to add different numbers of cameras. These additional licenses are tied to that Synology NAS box. My understanding is that you can’t take them with you to a new NAS. This isn’t a problem for most people (who are gonna use that NAS for 6-10 years), but it is good to be informed when you’re making platform choices.

      • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        You can transfer licenses to a new NAS, as long as you have the license code. Just de-activate it on old box and activate it on new box.

        See this link on their site for more info.

        What you CAN’T do is split licenses. So if you buy the 8-pack, you can’t put 4 on one NAS and 4 on another NAS.
        You also CAN’T combine the built in license. So the NAS comes with 2 licenses- you can’t remove those 2 from one NAS and apply them to another.

        • Someology@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Ah, thanks! I misunderstood, and that’s good to know. :) Useful to know for future upgrades as well.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Frigate is fantastic, easy to setup, very simple UI. And it makes use of 6th gen and up Intel HW acceleration for object detection and encoding, so it’s fast and very light on CPU usage.

    For hardware Reolink is pretty decent for low cost, their 4k cameras run around $80-120 and as far as I know all support RTSP.

  • Kata1yst@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Loving Frigate. Really straightforward and powerful. I use a couple Amcrest IP5M-T1179EB-28MM, very happy with them too.

  • huquad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve tried motioneye, zoneminder, shinobi cctv, blue iris, and frigate NVR.

    I couldn’t get motioneye to work, but I’ll blame on me being a noob (especially at the time).

    Zoneminder was stable but the UI is a bit weak and it doesn’t have person detection to my knowledge. You can get around the UI by using homeassistant as a front end.

    Shinobi cctv has the best UI, but I found it to be a buggy mess, person detection was difficult to implement, and it didn’t play nice with homeassistant.

    Blue iris is solid, but requires a license and windows. I have the least experience with it, but it seemed decent.

    Ultimately, I landed on frigate NVR and it’s my favorite so far. Its very solid/stable, has built in object/person detection with simple support for hardware acceleration, and UI is simple but passable. Personally, I use homeassistant as a front end for WAF, but the built in UI isn’t bad and shows all your person detection events. Also, compared to all the above, configuration is done through a text file. While this may seem daunting at first, the manuals are very good and it becomes copy paste after the first camera (makes backups easy too).

    For hardware, frigate has recommendations on their site. A cheap PC will do the job with ideally an Intel processor for hardware acceleration. For cameras, I’ve had the best luck with amcrest. Just make sure you throw whatever cameras you get on their own restricted vlan with no internet access. Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions.