I based about 80% of my CCTV system off his work.) (There's a Youtuber that runs a channel called "The Hookup" that talks a lot about home automation. Not to mention way cheaper than equivalent, commercial pre-packaged solutions. This all sounds super complex (and kinda is) but extremely powerful, flexible, and reliable. I also replicate a rolling 7 days' worth of high-res video to Amazon S3 in case my self-hosted gear is disabled. I keep about 90 days worth of 24x7 footage and have a year's worth of triggered, high-res footage. The streams are written to my Synology NAS. If the object is classified as a person or vehicle, I then begin recording in full 4k resolution and send an alert to my phone via Pushover. I have a custom-written Python app that picks up the message, does some preprocessing, grabs a series of still images from the camera, and sends them to DeepStack (running in a Docker container) for image classification. When motion is detected, a MQTT message is published. I have it configured to record the secondary (640x480) streams on all cameras 24x7. BlueIris itself runs on a dedicated Intel NUC with Windows Server installed on it. My entire CCTV network is on a separate VLAN with no direct Internet access so I don't worry about security issues. Never used SS, but have been running BlueIris with a dozen Hikvision 4k PoE cameras for about two years. That means for $400 I get brand new hardware, with warranty, and 2 camera licences and support and updates for 10 years. Synology seems to support their hardware for about 10 years. Especially since in 3 years that hardware won't be capable of running a supported version of Windows. Setting up a new camera monitoring system with 6 year old hardware with no warranty isn't that attractive to me. And for that I'm getting a small form factor with poor hard drive expansion. I had a hard time finding a used desktop to run BI on in Canada for under $400, which is the price of a Ds220+. And the licences you buy are forever.Īnd you aren't buying used hardware. And honestly the interface on SS is miles ahead of BI IMHO. I know some people do it, but it is still way to much of a DIY product for that IMHO.Ī Nas just works, no worrying about windows updates breaking things. I did look at using BI for customers but that seemed like a service nightmare waiting to happen. Yes this is how I look at it, especially for my customers.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |