Zoneminder VS frigate

I checked for open issues but it looks like just this one is open (still from 2021).

The best way to check it is to look at what video streams ZM can accept (www.zoneminder.com, "read the docs" section) and then reference the specs on your camera to see 1) if the camera supplies that kind of stream and 2) what the path URL for that stream is. That path URL is what you'd put into ZM when you configure the camera.

The above 3 Fixes https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/security/advisories/GHSA-cfcx-v52x-jh74

Try this Github python script by DanielBorgesOliveira for sending videos from zoneminder to Telegram.

ZoneMinder

Found the function ZoneMinder uses code

Zoneminder - open source NVR system with an event server to use machine learning models to detect objects.

What wasn't immediately clear to me is that you're meant to set up Raspberry Pis with a Pi camera attached, and that serves as the camera device. This then provides E2E encryption directly between the Pi and the Secluso mobile app via a cloud relay service that just shovels the encrypted bytes.

Contrast with https://frigate.video/, which is a locally installed NVR server that pulls camera feeds over the LAN (from a very wide range of off-the-shelf IP cameras) and does all kinds of really neat local processing to do things like (optionally hardware-accelerated) object and audio detection, face recognition, ALPR, semantic search over recorded video, and more — while still maintaining similar privacy guarantees.

It's great that you've done reproducible builds for camera firmware, since that means you don't have to trust a shady IP camera vendor to be competent. Of course, with off-the-shelf stuff, you can largely avoid the security issues there by putting your cameras on a VLAN that can only reach your NVR.

What I don't get is why there needs to be a cloud relay involved at all. If you're fully E2E encrypted anyway, just have the app communicate directly with the camera via STUN.

I see you're planning on selling the preassembled hardware. There's definitely something to be said for "buy this device, download app, done" ease of setup for the wider market that meaningfully improves their privacy over Ring/Nest/et al. But for the power user and self-hosting crowd, I think Frigate makes a lot more sense.

Frigate for movement detection

2tb of 1080p locally with AI in a day is not that big of a lift on modern hardware, especially now virtually all systems have hardware accelerated video decode.

Modern self-hosted NVR solutions like Frigate will comfortably handle 10 or more HD streams with face/object detection and tracking in real time, using a couple of cheap Coral TPUs or almost any GPU on pretty basic CPUs.

> https://frigate.video/

> You can still install the whole kit and caboodle using pip in a Python virtual environment, but why would you?

This is how I did it, instead of the container or HA OS in a VM.

If you want the simplicity of everything preconfigured, managed, and hands-off, go with HA OS, whether in a VM on a beefier machine, standalone, or the HA Green/Yellow dedicated hardware.

But if you already have a home server and want to add HA, I found just pip installing to be easier than dealing with the container.

Maybe I'm just the silly type that enjoys fiddling with Linux, but I'd argue that it actually makes more sense to install HA bare metal over a container. HA doesn't actually have any major dependencies outside of what pip installs, so setup wasn't any more annoying than via container. And then you never have to deal with container annoyances like passing hardware through to it or weird failures and misconfigurations.

Contrast this with https://frigate.video/, which has so many fragile native dependencies and a super complex stack that trying to install manually is an exercise in futility. I gave up and used the container.

I think it's GHSA-4c97-5jmr-8f6x - authentication required prerequisite.

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/security/advisori...

Alternatively, the Reolink Doorbell cameras for anyone who doesn't want to be on the Unifi/Ubiquiti platform. Also I believe all these cameras provide a generic RTSP feed which can be consumed by any computer running Frigate[0], an open-source NVR/AI platform.

0: https://frigate.video

(Reolink, Unifi/Ubiquiti, and Frigate are all good solutions for anyone who is not interested in supporting the proliferation of a police-state)

The Home-Assistant integration which uses this: https://github.com/JurajNyiri/HomeAssistant-Tapo-Control

And being used with Frigate since 2023 in "How to set up Frigate card w/ tapo camera 2-way audio" https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/8963