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Hardware to run 30 Cameras ? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 year ago by Lobotomie to c/homeassistant

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So I have about 30 Cameras I want to run on my instance. Step by step all of them will record their videos on a local sd card and I will only watch the stream over HA (no hardware nvr). How can I set this up so my phone/laptop will not struggle at all loading these streams?

Right now I am playing them using onvif and or fmpeg and all of my hardware starts to lag heavily when I open the camera sites.

The streams are split up over 3 pages so it's 13/10/7 Streams each.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have no plans on recording you may want to look up setting up a stand alone instance of go2rtc and one of the optional cards to support WebRTC and MSE near real time viewing vs home assistants default HLS which is sometimes 15seconds delayed and chunky.

If you are not going to view ALL of the streams at the same time the system requirements and overhead for go2rtc should be fairly low depending on the codecs of your cameras and the devices you want to view on as video and audio support on various devices is all over the map, but go2rtc can transcode on the fly.

[–] Lobotomie 2 points 1 year ago

I am recording the footage its just saved locally on each camera sd card. Right now I am running most of them via webrtc and the dashboard basically break both my laptop and phone (both just basically freezet up)