moonfire-nvr

Probably, but I'd like to hear the author's take on a key design decision rather than guess. This is also not the only option to achieve some fraction of that goal—another approach would be for the camera hub to encrypt and upload directly to a cloud object storage API (AWS S3 and competitors) and give the client presigned URLs to access it. My NVR's based on the assumption that you want to record continuously (as called out in the schema design doc here [1]) rather than trust event detection to be perfectly reliable. I've set up other systems in parallel that are based on a different assumption (e.g. Frigate) but have found they miss things, so this is the design I'm comfortable with. If you are also constrained on upstream bandwidth, continuous recording means you must buy a local hard drive. It costs $100–$200 to buy one that can hold

What is the purpose of introducing the untrusted "server" component? Is it intended to run in a different place than the trusted "camera hub" component, such as on a cloud server? This is key to the claim that Privastead offers superior privacy to other solutions, but it's not explained. My NVR [1] only uses a trusted server that is intended to be in the same building as the cameras. I similarly recommend not allowing the cameras to access the Internet, as their closed-source software is typically a complete nightmare in terms of privacy and security. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

Certainly interesting project, but I do encourage people to do more thorough research before starting a new project and claiming they needed to fill a void. > However, I could not find one that I could trust due to privacy concerns. > Many of them upload the plaintext of videos to their servers and none is fully open-source as far as I know. There's Frigate [1] which is off-cloud, opensource and self-hosted and it does person detection using GPU or Google Coral. It relays camera streams over WebRTC using ssl and works well with Home Assistant [2], which is your self-hosted off-cloud smart home solution. Then there's moonfire-nvr [3] which is written in rust and less feature complete than frigate. And then there's sentryshot [4], another option written in rust. Interestingly, your project got more stars since you posted it on HN than sentr

Temporal will be really nice in that it supports remote time zones, allows you to iterate through daylight saving transitions, etc. I can't wait for it to be fully taken advantage of by things such as mui's date time picker. Imagine if after selecting the fall back day, it saw the transition and let you pick a time during the extra hour. If after selecting the spring forward day, it wouldn't let you pick a time during the hour that doesn't exist. Today that doesn't work because everyone uses different crappy third-party libraries and mui functions on top of a lowest-common adapter that certainly doesn't do stuff like "show me the DST transitions in this day". This stuff matters sometimes; a user of my NVR wanted to save a clip during the fall back hour and got the wrong result because these things just don't work right today. https://gith

I've been looking for a camera to recommend for use with my open-source NVR. [1] This sounds promising, but I have a few questions. * What's the status of Uniview? Are their cameras allowed in the US under the 2019 NDAA? still receiving FCC approvals since the Secure Equipment Act of 2021? Does Uniview participate in the Uyghur genocide? * Do you have any models with large sensors, e.g. 1/1.8" or wider? I prefer good night performance if possible, which I believe requires each pixel to be physically somewhat large. There are a lot of many-megapixel cameras with 1/3" sensors out there, which aren't so great there. * What's the pricing? Your camera page [2] has "contact us for info" instead of a price, and when that happens I usually assume it's too expensive for the DIY crowd and drop out. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr [2]