I just think the webinterface is (way) too limited and thats why I use BI for 24/7 recording and providing a nice UI with clips marked by HA/Frigate.

Frigate is outstanding at identifying cars and people and pets, and the integration with HA is good. I haven tried their AI plugins, but dont want to as its cloud based and last I checked, non free. BI motion detection is terrible by comparison and a CPU hog. I use frigate for object detection using a coral accelerator. and everything that happens in BI is available in HA). I use blueiris because it has a superb web interface, and provides me with all the bells and whistles I could hope for, including jpg timelapses, mjpg streams for the front end (h264 doesnt play nice in lovelace), mqtt integration (both ways, so eg door or motion sensors in HA can trigger a BI event to mark or save a clip or record on a different camera. Blue iris does this, Im sure others do too. So you are better off recording those main streams directly without touching them, and adding flags to events (or save them as different clips). You can store an 'eternity' on a 1TB drive. Just store the h265 main stream and use the substream for motion. Most camera's will also do h265 main stream which is very efficient but CPU intensive to decode, and h264 sub stream for motion detection. The h264/265 streams from your camera are pretty low bandwidth especially if nothing moves. And recoding it efficiently is going to be CPU/power intensive, especially if you dont have a GPU or quicksync to offload it to. It means decoding and recoding the stream.

Then I can start it fast and integrate it to HA when I have time.ġFPS (or low bandwidth) full time, 25FPS when triggered. I can build a state of the art solution, but with limited time any ready to use solution is preferred. It can be docker based solution, but I don't want to run windows VM for blue iris, unless it is really worth it.Īlso I am price sensitive, so I can cross some items out to reduce budget. I may want to have some automation on cameras, I will use cheap ones in most areas (just to see where is the dog, etc), but I want 4-8mpx for the backyard and driveway. I dont trust wifi indoors).īasically I want to know what is happening around the house in safe area. Supports some range of cameras (PoE, Wifi, 1-4mpx.

Possibility to use streams for intensive postprocessing in other software based NVR (zoneminder etc). Possibility to have motion alerts on home assistant Possibility to have (onvif?) streams to home-assistant 1FPS (or low bandwidth) full time, 25FPS when triggered. I want to get a ready to use NVR, that can talk to HA.Ī black box, that sits in the corner and records cameras.

Onvif home assistant