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by devwastaken 1954 days ago
In this day and age with all sorts of different cameras we also need a better NVR system to be doing continual recording and accurate away from home motion alerts. Perhaps such a thing could be shoved into a raspberry pi 4.

The current state of consumer cameras are either spend $300 for an indoor one that's "cloud enabled". Or $100 for a bullet that you need an NVR to have effective.
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ed25519FUUU 1954 days ago
I use Shinobi, which works okay. You can run a modest system on a raspberry pi but really needs something with hardware accelerated h264 such as an Intel CPU or geforce card.

https://shinobi.video/

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minitoar 1954 days ago
Totally agree. Sadly, outdoor pi cams are not cheap. In the meantime I think Ubiquiti might be the best option.
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taxidump 1954 days ago
I can't recommend them anymore. Hikvision cameras with a Synology NAS is far better in every way.

Ubiquiti cameras are way overpriced. The NVR has no real advanced functions. And their small indoor cameras are wifi only but require POE to power up. Everytime a power interrupt happens the wifi cams don't reconnect and start broadcasting their setup ssid and have to be manually reconnected. Their awesome tech support has turned into absolute garbage and can have hours long queues to only have an inexperienced person tell you they will follow up with an email. I was once a fan, but now will not install anymore of their equipment.

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croutonwagon 1954 days ago
Would agree. Ive got a synology nas with a handful of wyze cams using rtsp (with no internet access).

Granted I had to somewhat beef up my wifi in the house to get everything working as expected. But it is pretty nice.

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