Shinobi VS double-take

I'd have to circle back and look again because it's been a few years. I was able to get Zoneminder to do 95% of what I wanted even if it felt a bit clunky. Shinobi was an up-and-comer last time I was looking around, but I remember having some frustrations and decided to stick with BI.

Shinobi: Very easy to setup and customize, but there's a 5+ second lag on the video feed vs. IRL

If cost is a concern: shinobi.video is about the best I've ever seen. Integrated s3/bucket abilities, killer support, and can handle truely brain-breaking amounts of cameras. Otherwise, as others have mentioned: Milestone is damn nice.

A more contemporary alternative to ZoneMinder would be Shinobi: https://shinobi.video/

Have I got the software for you! Shinobi is the solution! Simple setup! Ninja easy! Sexy interface? Check. Easy setup? Yep. More than 4 camera streams at once? You got it. Person/Motion/Object detection? Yes, with the caveat that you really should use a GPU for it. PTZ? Uh-huh!

# Learn more at https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take/#configuration

I looked at Double Take (UI that lets you do the training of your face recondition easily) and found CompreFace as one of models they support. It looks like what I need but there is a catch... no OpenVino (intel CPUs AI accelerator) support. I really like my low power NVR setup and would like keep it that way. Running AI on CPU without acceleration is both power inefficient and much slower. I have a spare low end GPU but if dump it in the system the current AI acceleration brakes... (I know I can prob fix it but that is a rabbit hole I would prefer to avoid).

CompreFace can be used "in addition" via Double-Take but that is additional detection based on frigate object events.

Not OP, but I _love_ talking about this stuff, so you're stuck with me. :D

I'm a big fan of this project:

https://frigate.video/

It's open source, and you can hook it up to a Coral (or some other things, I think) to get crazy-fast classifications. But CPU is fine for only a few cameras.

Once you get something like that setup, it's just a matter of finding cameras that support RTSP. You get them setup however you like (but preferably wired, with PoE), point Frigate at the RTSP stream, and that's it. Now you've got home security footage that never leaves your house. You can set up a VPN to watch the feeds from elsewhere. Frigate supports MQTT as well, so you can hook it into Home Assistant to get notifications, and even pipe person events into something like Double Take to get face detection:

https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take

have you checked out double take?

I purchased this device off eBay the week of July 4th, and willingly paid scalper prices with the idea that I'd spend much of that week learning Frigate, double-take, and DeepStack; turns out, I had the ML-powered facial recognition, alerts and Home Assistant automations up and running in an hour.