So I’m running Shinobi on my Proxmox server and I managed to get it setup. However, it’s far from user friendly, it’s splitting the recordings like a removed and it’s slow (4 cores from a 5800H with 2gb ram, only two 4MP cameras). Am I gonna have to buy an NVR or is there another service that works with ONVIF cameras?

  • ang3l12@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used blue iris for close to 5 years. The drawbacks being that it only runs on a windows machine, and that machine needs a some kind of gpu to get any kind of reasonable performance.

    I switched to Unifi Protect about 6 months ago, and while it’s not as powerful or feature packed as blue iris / frigate, the “it just works” feature is worth it for my sanity.

    • eWalcacer@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Man, I wish Omada had something like that. At this point, I’m almost buying a new camera license to use on my shitty Synology, as Surveillance Station works fine for me.

      • ang3l12@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I almost went with my qnap NVR solution too, but it was time to replace the cameras I had as well, since my outdoor cameras didn’t have working microphones.

        The biggest factor for me in the process was ease of setup / Wife Approval Factor. I setup our Blue Iris system just before we had our first kid, and now that we have two kids, I have almost no time to tinker / fix / upgrade my self hosted things, so the unifi protect was the solution that ticked most of the boxes.

        • eWalcacer@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, that’s makes a lot of sense to me. I just want something that works, that will record everything and be quickly accessible. I’m almost buying a Dahua NVR, but I really wish there was a server software that makes it easy to setup and monitor.

          • ang3l12@alien.topBEnglish
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            1 year ago

            The unifi stuff just works, but the included storage with the cloud key (their hardware NVR for small deployments) only comes with a 1tb drive. I have considered upgrading that drive, but for now I only have it set to record when cameras detect motion, and with 6 cameras I’ve yet to come to a point where I wanted to pull a recording from after it’s been purged due to space. But there are times that I wish I had recording always turned on, I just haven’t done that yet.

    • d4nm3d@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I use BlueIris on a windows 11 Vm on an USFF Lenovo system… i’m running 5 1080p cameras on it with 24x7 recording an no issues.