So I’m running Shinobi on my Proxmox server and I managed to get it setup. However, it’s far from user friendly, it’s splitting the recordings like a retard and it’s slow (4 cores from a 5800H with 2gb ram, only two 4MP cameras). Am I gonna have to buy an NVR or is there another service that works with ONVIF cameras?
I used blue iris for close to 5 years. The drawbacks being that it only runs on a windows machine, and that machine needs a some kind of gpu to get any kind of reasonable performance.
I switched to Unifi Protect about 6 months ago, and while it’s not as powerful or feature packed as blue iris / frigate, the “it just works” feature is worth it for my sanity.
Man, I wish Omada had something like that. At this point, I’m almost buying a new camera license to use on my shitty Synology, as Surveillance Station works fine for me.
I almost went with my qnap NVR solution too, but it was time to replace the cameras I had as well, since my outdoor cameras didn’t have working microphones.
The biggest factor for me in the process was ease of setup / Wife Approval Factor. I setup our Blue Iris system just before we had our first kid, and now that we have two kids, I have almost no time to tinker / fix / upgrade my self hosted things, so the unifi protect was the solution that ticked most of the boxes.
Yeah, that’s makes a lot of sense to me. I just want something that works, that will record everything and be quickly accessible. I’m almost buying a Dahua NVR, but I really wish there was a server software that makes it easy to setup and monitor.