Re: [PLUG] Linux friendly camera system

All kinds of stuff in my wheelhouse today, BBQ and cameras. So I have few of the Amcrest IP3M-956B cameras around the house. They work pretty well, support two streams, so I can send 4k to Zoneminder and 640x480 to my Home Assistant dashboard. They IR at night isn't the greatest, but it works well enough. They also require a Chrome extension to view the video in browser, which I don't like. Setup is all browser based, you just can't view the stream. I have some old 640x480 Foscam outdoor cameras that are IR floodlights, but the resolution sucks and the wireless was spotty at best. That being said, pretty much anything from Foscam is going to work pretty well. If you feel like hacking around, I've heard very good things about this specific Wyze camera that's 25 bucks. Keep in mind, they are Chinese imports with terrible support, terrible apps (that sometimes aren't in English) and security is sketchy at best. However, you can mess with them a bit to get local only streams and get them to not phone home.

I'm not in love with Zoneminder, but it does work (and very well). I had some issues a bit ago with high CPU usage so I had to shutdown that VM and I haven't gotten back to it.

Kerberos.io is super neat and full featured. The downside is that it's built to run from a Raspberry Pi (YAY) but only supports one stream (BOO). There is some support for multiple streams, but it's wonky. It's really built to take a Pi, slap a camera on it, then put it somewhere. Need another camera? Get another Pi, camera, slap it somewhere else, but you have two separate instances of kerberos.io running (which you can kinda cluster together, sorta).

I could talk for a while about this, mostly because it's a slippery slope that leads to hours of home automation.

-CT

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org> wrote:

Zoneminder looks great, thanks.

Does anyone have advice on where to start with cameras? I can do the research of course but if you’re using a camera or camera brand that you like I’m interested to hear about it.

-morgan

> On May 15, 2018, at 1:15 PM, Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Zoneminder.
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> On May 15, 2018 1:08:19 PM EDT, Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org> wrote:
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> Does anyone run a camera system that is linux/unix friendly?
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> Ideally I’d like it to be completely wireless and dump data to a NAS though I could make PoE work. I have a robust wireless network that should handle a few cameras pretty easily.
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> Years ago I had Panasonic cameras that could be configured to dump still images to an ftp server when they sensed motion. That would be fine though it wouldn’t be bad to have proper DVR software. It need not be open source but I’d prefer to not be tied to a specific DVR vendor.
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> Thanks,
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> -morgan
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-Chris