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.
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.
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.
I do something similar frigate for object detection and Shinobi for recording. Works great for my use case and I don’t need a windows vm.