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.
Blink works well without the subscription if you buy the parts.
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.
I second this. Good things to know include:
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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.
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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.
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.Ah, thanks! I misunderstood, and that’s good to know. :) Useful to know for future upgrades as well.
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I built a box with a standard PC case and a xeon v2 wfor zoneminder, and just slapped a second hand hyper 212 evo on there
I would say go for a v4 over the v2 because the efficiency is much better. You will probably just want 1 core per camera + a few to account for OS + container overhead, so more cores + efficiency is better here
I have some crappy reolink cameras through a unmanaged POE switch, up to a managed switch (cheapo tp link gigabit) so the camera and NVR are on one VLAN. I set some firewall rules in my eouter (edgerouter x) to let me connect to the NVR but block the cameras. Not ideal, but it works.
Perhaps better would be to use a NIC and connect directly to the unmanaged switch so there’s no need to VLAN, but I’m not using this for anything crazy, and i can still get gigabit speeds to the NVR
Also using a used enterprise 6tb drive for storage. Works fine and has been going strong for a year. They’re a fraction of the cost of a new drive, and are usually pulled well before theyre ready to fail
Blue iris works quite well for me
I’m using raspberry pi zeros with motioneyeOS 😜 not the best hardware, but gets the job done on a budget
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.
