yi-hack-MStar VS Shinobi

There have been successful attempts to reverse engineer the the hardware being sold and flashing custom open source firmware. I have done it to my Chinese Yi camera and it has worked for me. See https://github.com/roleoroleo/yi-hack-MStar

I have a raspberry pi running Shinobi as a NVR system for my house. I have IP cams that have been firmware unlocked (Yi Hack), my issue is when they are connected to my access point in the front of the house I can query them with no problem and access the webUI, pull the RTSP stream etc, once I change the wifi to my main modem they basically go cold. I can see them on angry IP scanner as blue (they are there and connected though not responding to query). I'm unsure where to start, port forwarding seems to just block port 8080 and shut out my net when I'm trying to access the Pi.

I’ve flashed one of my Yi Cameras with this firmware, and created a docker container using this repo.

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!