koto VS moonfire-nvr

Compare koto vs moonfire-nvr and see what are their differences.

koto

A simple, expressive, embeddable programming language, made with Rust (by koto-lang)

moonfire-nvr

Moonfire NVR, a security camera network video recorder (by scottlamb)
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koto moonfire-nvr
4 31
394 1,084
1.8% -
9.5 8.4
3 days ago 12 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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koto

Posts with mentions or reviews of koto. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-20.

moonfire-nvr

Posts with mentions or reviews of moonfire-nvr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-23.
  • Mock Service Worker(msw) releases 2.0
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2023
    How do folks test timing-related stuff with MSW? AFAIK, MSW doesn't get along with jest.useFakeTimers. It drives me nuts; I have a bunch of disabled tests in an open-source project and at least one that is flaky because it uses real timers where I'd like to be using fake timers. [1, 2]

    I've been thinking about ripping out MSW from my tests in favor of my own API-level mock for this reason. But it seems like many other folks are happy with MSW. I have to assume there's something I'm not getting. I'm a fish out of water with frontend stuff in general...

    [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/5ea5d27908f1a...

    [2] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/5ea5d27908f1a...

  • Alternative open firmware for your IP camera
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023
    > I wonder how hard it would be to run your own streamer pipeline or whatnot on these things?

    Agree with the_biot: The actual streaming component is not too hard. If this were the biggest problem, I'd be thrilled to contribute to an open source streaming server to complement my open source NVR. [1] The driver situation is indeed a bit harder—these things don't just have mainline Linux support with v4l2 for the video input and encoder. Or open source drivers of any kind to crib from AFAIK.

    The biggest problem IMHO is that there just aren't any good cameras to buy, even completely ignoring the software aspect. I want a camera that:

    1. doesn't support genocide. Nothing that involves Dahua, Hikvision, or Huawei. See IPVM articles on the subject. And a lot of available cameras are relabeled Dahua/Hikvision stuff and/or use Huawei components.

    2. is legal for sale / authorized for use in the US. (See the Secure Equipment Act of 2021.)

    3. has good night mode performance: IR/day switch, a sensor that is at least 1/1.8", reasonable resolution (somewhere from HD to 4k).

    4. has an "eyeball" or "turret" form factor rather than "bullet". The latter seems to really attract spiders, so you end up with a really nice video of a web...

    5. supports PoE.

    6. is weatherized (IP66 or so).

    7. is reasonably priced.

    If you ignore #1 and #2, there's some nice hardware out there, but I'm not willing to do that. If you ignore #3, there are a few options (GeoVision, maybe Reolink, maybe Hanwha.) If you ignore #4 and #7, there might be a couple (Axis, maybe Hanwha.) Nothing that ticks all the boxes.

    Hard to get excited about investing a lot in the software when the hardware isn't there.

    [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

  • Installing Rust in a Raspberry Pi 3A+
    6 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jan 2023
    But I would definitely avoid compiling Rust on the Raspberry Pi 3 if you can avoid it. I set up a Docker cross-compile environment for this reason.
  • Self Hosted CCTV/Home Security
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 11 Jan 2023
  • NVR Suggestions & Experience...Any decent alternatives for MotionEye?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Dec 2022
    Moonfire may be what you're looking for otherwise.
  • What's everyone working on this week (50/2022)?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 12 Dec 2022
    That last bit's not quite true: another option is to just use the cameras as a dumb stream source and do all the fanciness in an open source NVR. I've been slowly working on moonfire-nvr. Help welcome!
  • surveillance station
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Nov 2022
    Moonfire
  • Managing and using ONVIF IP cameras with Linux
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
    ONVIF isn't really that important IMHO.

    Configuring your camera is something you do rarely, and if you have to put up with some crappy web interface, proprietary plugin, or desktop software for it, oh well. So the ONVIF SOAP APIs aren't really the most important part.

    The most important part is RTSP. Many of these have astonishingly poor RTSP implementations. See https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/Cameras:-Reol... for some of what I'm talking about. That ONVIF page says everything is fine for several Reolink models, but I don't believe it!

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
  • camera recording software recommendations
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Sep 2022
    If you don't need restreaming or mjpeg support, check out moonfire. It's the only alternative I'm aware of that doesn't use FFmpeg.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing koto and moonfire-nvr you can also consider the following projects:

Shinobi - :peace_symbol: :palestinian_territories: Shinobi CE - The Free Open Source CCTV platform written in Node.JS (Camera Recorder - Security Surveillance Software - Restreamer

frigate - NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

viseron - Self-hosted, local only NVR and AI Computer Vision software. With features such as object detection, motion detection, face recognition and more, it gives you the power to keep an eye on your home, office or any other place you want to monitor.

motioneyeos - A Video Surveillance OS For Single-board Computers

jupyter-rust - a docker container for jupyter notebooks for rust

neolink - An RTSP bridge to Reolink IP cameras

webdriver-install - Fast and simple webdriver installation

Zoneminder - ZoneMinder is a free, open source Closed-circuit television software application developed for Linux which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras.

dolt - Dolt – Git for Data

Magnetico - Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.

os-nvr

Rouille, Rust web server middleware - Web framework in Rust