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’ve tried many, including QNAP and Zone minder in my RPi4. I’ve landed with Frigate on my RPI4. Works like a charm with 2 web cams. Much more than this and you will need a GPU like Coral but those are almost impossible to find. It’s hooked up to Home Assistant for eg notifications.
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.
Loving Frigate. Really straightforward and powerful. I use a couple Amcrest IP5M-T1179EB-28MM, very happy with them too.
I’ve tried motioneye, zoneminder, shinobi cctv, blue iris, and frigate NVR.
I couldn’t get motioneye to work, but I’ll blame on me being a noob (especially at the time).
Zoneminder was stable but the UI is a bit weak and it doesn’t have person detection to my knowledge. You can get around the UI by using homeassistant as a front end.
Shinobi cctv has the best UI, but I found it to be a buggy mess, person detection was difficult to implement, and it didn’t play nice with homeassistant.
Blue iris is solid, but requires a license and windows. I have the least experience with it, but it seemed decent.
Ultimately, I landed on frigate NVR and it’s my favorite so far. Its very solid/stable, has built in object/person detection with simple support for hardware acceleration, and UI is simple but passable. Personally, I use homeassistant as a front end for WAF, but the built in UI isn’t bad and shows all your person detection events. Also, compared to all the above, configuration is done through a text file. While this may seem daunting at first, the manuals are very good and it becomes copy paste after the first camera (makes backups easy too).
For hardware, frigate has recommendations on their site. A cheap PC will do the job with ideally an Intel processor for hardware acceleration. For cameras, I’ve had the best luck with amcrest. Just make sure you throw whatever cameras you get on their own restricted vlan with no internet access. Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions.
was looking to setup frigate, what hardware are you using? trying to avoid hikvision or anything with known backdoors
Backdoors don’t really matter since the cameras are isolated to local only, and can only talk to the NVR.
any vulnerability is a risk i want to avoid, hikvision as a security camera company doesn’t care about security.
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166334/Hikvision-IP-Camera-Backdoor.html
But if they don’t have access to Internet, as others have said, there’s nothing a backdoor can do.
chances are you don’t have NAC setup on your home network, and even if you do that can be bypassed. mitigating risk means you accept the least amount of it. a company that’s comfortable with built-in backdoors is unacceptable.
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/blogs/a0D3i000002SKPREA4/vlan1-and-vlan-hopping-attack
First of all, I’m no cyber security expert. If the devices don’t have access to Internet, how can they do a VLAN hopping? They’re not “intelligent” devices that can act by their own.
About the first link, just avoiding Cisco switches seems to solve the problem (please correct me if I’m wrong). About the second link, I’ve got a question, is VLAN hopping a real threat, can it really happens nowadays?
