[whalesalad]

Interesting. I’ve been building a home camera network and the state of this space (the nvr software) is pretty abysmal: zoneminder, blueiris, shinobi, etc… gonna take this for a spin.

This is a terrible name for an open source project though.

[riffic]

Generally I downvote name griping here because it's both an inevitable topic and the ultimate in bikeshedding, but this is one of those rare exceptions. Link to the "other" kerberos (a very well-referenced and utilized authentication protocol and implementation) in case anyone's curious what this is being driven by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)

[CyberDildonics]

The name is a giant red flag. If someone doesn't care about a giant name conflict of a very uncommon word with a very common project, then they just brush it off with rationalizations, it makes me wonder what other reasonable things they are willing to ignore.

[aaronchall]

Ah, the reasonableness signaling heuristic.

[bitwize]

I'd suggest Argus, the name of the hundred-eyed giant tasked to watch over Io for Hera, as a replacement name.

[Abishek_Muthian]

> the state of this space (the nvr software) is pretty abysmal: zoneminder, blueiris, shinobi, etc

Can you be specific on what you found to be the issue? Did you try MotionEye? They're just a front-end for motion which by itself is very configurable (I recently enabled encoding using vaapi driver for some good performance gains for multiple camera detection/recording), But you need to get past the Python 2 mess of MotionEye but the community is very active and soon I expect the Python 3 branch to reach stability.

> This is a terrible name for an open source project though.

Guess, What's the name for their management system repository is[1]

[1] https://github.com/kerberos-io/opensource

[tw04]

Other than the windows dependence, what’s the issue with blueiris? I’ve tried the others you’ve listed as well and found it to be the most robust by quite a bit. I wish the web interface were better, and having to use a reverse proxy or vpn to get mobile access is also… meh.

[bradknowles]

it’s Windows. I’m not going to run a Windows server.

I’m not even going to run Windows clients.

It’s a shame they can’t do a containerized version of BlueIris. That is something I probably would run, so long as I could avoid running Windows.

[tw04]

There are multiple options to run it in a container. I'm not advocating for any of them because I just broke down and bought a dedicated machine running Windows for it. Some examples:

https://hub.docker.com/search?q=Blueiris&type=image

[whalesalad]

I can't even get it to boot on the latest Win 10 Enterprise VM. Launching the app will terminate my RDP connection instantly.

I fucking hate maintaining Windows infrastructure. Everything that should be straightforward is a nightmare.

[edgyquant]

It would be a perfect name for a surveillance system in a dystopian government though

[boraoztunc]

a system in "The Ministry of Surveillance"

[edoceo]

Ministry of Peace