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A good compromise between cost, integration and reliability (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Starting to think about setting up my home camera surveillance system and what to avoid making poor decisions, so need to tap into community experience ... you guys :-)

Frigate seems like the direction to take if I want to strike a good balance between cost, integration and reliability. Hardware is a key issues. I could install HA and Frigate on my VM running on my Truenas server but I feel I'm putting all my eggs in one basket so thinking of having a dedicated machine for HA + Frigate. The Frigate website advertises this little beasts with a Coral PCIe unit. That about 300€ if I'm lucky, but I could live with that.

For camera I definitely do not want chinese-call-home/cheap stuff. The Lorytas advertised on the Frigate website seem to be difficult to get hold of (are these not chinese btw?) in Europe so was wondering what other peoples experience is. Cameras need to be comparable to these Lorytas in terms of quality and functionality (no chinese, no call home, good image quality, good relibility, weather proof)

Keen to hear whether others have tried the hardware/setup recomended on the Frigate website and whether there are people out there that have actually got even better setups.

This guy is recommending that the Frigate unit is separate from the HA unit. I'm unlikely to have more than 5 cameras installed and it feels a bit overkill to have two separate machines?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not really an answer, more of a related question to others:

Zoneminder... how does that compare?

It seems to have been around for years (I was made aware of it as an addon for MythTV), is still maintained and ticks the usual FOSS boxes... and has an HA integration.

But I've not heard many people using it...?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah yes, thanks for raising. I had forgotten. So we have three Foss contenders:

Frigate
Motioneye
Zoneminder

I've only tried ME about 6 years ago with RPi camera. It was alright but I'm sure things have moved on.