+1 for Zoneminder, I ran one for years.

I'm all about Frigate now. It can use a GPU or Edge TPU to inference humans, cars & animals on modect events.

Frigate is next level. Didn't even have to change the IP cams.

I’m a big fan of scrypted. I moved to that from Frigate. Not regrets, easier to setup and use.

While frigate is every bit as capable, I got tired of tinkering with it or it breaking with my install when I updated it.

No issues this far with scrypted.

Eh. Frigate+Shinobi on Docker has been the simplest solution I’ve found. ZoneMinder was always difficult. BlueIris was a resource hog.

I love motion eye for being super simple. It doesn't have many advanced features but is much less finicky than Zm/shinobi.

Windows users will want to check out BlueIris

Otherwise, Synology has a great surveillance package, but you only get 2 cameras licenses with your NAS and more licenses are like $50 each

No docker images for zoneminder still which is wild.

I use ispy agent dvr at the moment. I used to use Blue Iris.

I have blue iris and half a dozen cameras. My blue iris support has expired, and because of a notifications bug I can’t get notifications anymore unless I upgrade for another year. How does zoneminder compare to blue iris and deepastack? Is it worth switching? It looks like zoneminder is free. Are there any other costs involved?

I was going to try Zoneminder but it seemed hard to setup on a raspberry pi. I've been super happy with Shinobi though

Yes! I have been running Zoneminder since 2020 with no complaints.

For first time/new users I would suggest one thing, try it in a VM first and take notes. Some of the settings take a little tweaking and when you have it all hammered out you can just follow your notes to set up your production machine. When I upgraded my server I was able to set up a brand new ZM instance with 8 cameras in about a half hour because I had my notes.

ZoneMinder does not run on any, and is incompatible with, all versions of Windows. We have no plans to support Windows.

Well, ok then :(

I love motion eye for being super simple. It doesn't have many advanced features but is much less finicky than Zm/shinobi.

I ran ZoneMinder for years before buying a Reolink NVM and now I couldn’t be happier. I’m a huge self-host-er but unless you want to babysit it ZoneMinder is a pain to self host. I ran it in docker, I ran it on raw metal, I tried multiple plugins/configs. Nothing beat the plug and play of a Reolink NVM. I say this as someone with multiple servers and ~150TB of storage locally.

Skip the headache and buy something off the shelf for this.