What hardware and software do you use for home surveillance?
What hardware and software do you use for home surveillance?
I'd like to set up three or four cameras on the exterior of my house, but I'm not sure where to start with this project. Ideally, these cameras would get power over Ethernet and record to a hard drive in my house that I could access remotely with a decent user interface. If the system could notify me when movement is detected that would be ideal as well. I don't like the idea of using a Google, Amazon, or similar product because I don't want to pay a subscription and I want to have control of the footage. What are you using that more or less accomplishes what I've described?
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I use UniFi Protect and record to my UDM, though you should be able to install it all on your own hardware if you’d prefer. Their cameras are pretty decent but a bit pricy in a lot of cases. Though they do support 3rd party cameras now.
I’ve also heard a lot of good things about frigate, but I’ve not really looked into it since I already have UniFi gear.
Ubiquiti killed the bring-your-own-hardware option for unifi protect many years ago, unless you go down the road of hacking their app into a docker image.
It’s supported natively in the UI to configure: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/26301104828439-Third-Party-Cameras-in-UniFi-Protect
It was added in EA in mid September and should be GA now as far as I know.
I’m confused, your post implied running unifi protect on your own hardware, but this link is about adding 3rd party camera streams into unifi protect.
Did I miss that?
I misunderstood what you were saying, I wasn’t sure if protect required a UniFi hardware console or could be self hosted like the network application can be. It looks like it does require at least a Cloudkey gen 2 (or the plus which is what they currently sell) or one of their integrated consoles like a UDM.