viseron VS camera.ui

I'm using 4 Dahua turret cameras, also setup exactly like u/o4b describes. Works flawlessly. While I'm also using Frigate, there's another similar piece of software called Viseron that I've just become aware of that looks similar. I can't speak for it at all as I'm very happy with Frigate, but if you're starting from nothing, you may as well consider which may work better for you.

Check out the release notes: https://github.com/roflcoopter/viseron/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Viseron

I have been using zoneminder for years and love it. If you can actually get a tensorflow unit, Frigate can be good. Just heard about Viseron, and am looking at trying it. https://github.com/roflcoopter/viseron

There is also: https://github.com/roflcoopter/viseron - which again, using mqtt. You would need to bridge it to Signal.

I do love having my threadripper in my home docker server though. Home assistant, plex, viseron, etc. all love the available CPU.

If not motioneye, there are a bunch of other free options. I run zoneminder - it should work there with filters to move clips from primary storage on a schedule. You could do it with this one + rclone as well: https://github.com/roflcoopter/viseron

viseron works pretty well for me with cpu only.

CameraUI (https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui) Opensource NVR software for cameras, built on modern progressive web app (PWA) architecture. Beautiful software, unfortunately the original dev has gone AWOL but the latest release is stable and easy to use for recording and viewing cameras.

For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server[1] on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui[2] separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc.

The only downside hardware-wise is I don't get any indoor IR night vision with these, which some of the nicer "smart home" account-locked ones do.

It's honestly not too bad to set up if you run [1] and [2] in Docker. I've done disaster recovery scenarios of my home infra where I straight up disconnect the modem's uplink and everything works without any issues.

[1] - https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

[2] - https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

In the past I’ve played around with using Scrypted or Camera.UI to bring non-HomeKit IP cameras into HomeKit. I think HomeAssistant and HomeBridge both have basic modules which would do this too (ffmpeg at bare minimum). A docker image running on a RaspberryPi or Synology is probably good enough.

camera.ui

You could try https://github.com/SeydX/camera.ui. Some say its CPU usage when recognising movement is not as high as scrypted. You could give it a shot.