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Full open source and private camera monitoring system (lemmy.ml)
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I want to setup a camera monitoring for my house and some rooms. I need to bee able to view the cameras remotely and and also do recording if possible. I could find some camera brands like dahua cams but having briefly tested them they. Seem to rely on acwmtralized cloud and proprietary visualization software.

What are you recommendation? This is not a professional setup I would at max have 3 cameras.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I remember ZoneMinder.

A full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system.

https://zoneminder.com/

Is this still a thing nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Zoneminder was cool when it was the only game in town, but didn’t it save “videos” as a folder of JPEGs of frame grabs?

[–] aodhsishaj 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes and no. You can capture frames, stream the output to the local OS or export the feed to be embedded in a website if you like. Also you can put it on the backend of another NVR and use it for long term storage, backup, compression and storage for later investigation. All of that allows for using higher resolution cameras and multiple feeds on smaller drives like a two 4TB disk ZFS stripe or something similar. I often reuse consumer desktops for it when price sensitive clients need security cameras, or remote access to a system already in place.

https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/1.32.3/userguide/viewmonitors.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It used to, but it's had the option to save an actual video for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Their code repository is still active. So worth giving a look.