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I for one use Frigate NVR. It integrates very well with Home Assistant.
I for one use Frigate NVR. It integrates very well with Home Assistant.
I run Blue Iris with https://github.com/VorlonCD/bi-aidetection (getting very long since the last update, but still works great) and am very happy with it and am using DeepQuest AI's latest Windows release rather than Docker. I have 14 cameras going to a VM running it all with 24/7 low res recording and event triggered high res recording. I have MQTT reporting of events to Home Assistant for notifications and Blue Iris handles all the actual video pieces. The hardest part is finding decent RTSP cameras that don't re-stream from the cloud. I've got a mix of Amcrest, Reolink, and Unifi. The older Amcrest seem to work best, but the Unifi ones (once you get past the restream from the local UMD bit) are really good as well and provide a nice double layer for notification if I ever want it. I've been running this setup for just a little over 3 years now and the only real complaint I have is about the Reolink cameras. I have them working, but do not recommend them at all.