Sidehistorik
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So - back to the new https://cameraui.com/ that Ive bee testing the last three weeks - and in short: Its impressive and have fixed my reolink 510 cameras problematic video stream (I assume)... See below.
Overview - What I like
The whole technology stack is very modern and the UI is super quick to use and explore. There are also an MacOs client and the Interface is also accessible and upcoming AppleTV and iPhone clients.
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The UI is so much better than Frigate that never suited me at all. Also a lot of Frigate (pre V18) was a big yaml file - in camera.ui its all in the UI
Event Recording
As stated - I dont need 24x7 - So Ive set up all recordings to capture events only - Here I can select if I want to use the Reolinks builtin detections, or a plugin - OpenVino to detect on a stream; the latter being better.
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Its easy to click and event and see the video, clip or go the the Recordings and see all or search on a cam, a person, an object etc:
Ressources usage
With 5 Cams and OpenVino enabled for all, I never saw execcive ressouce usage, even though Camera.ui uses FFMPEG - know for being quite ressouce consuming.
Face and object recognition
Ive been testing it a bit and object recognition seems to work fine - way better than the built in in Frigate, that could see pretty much any object as a person.
Currently, my setup for face recognition is just as bad as the one I had in Frigate - I'm not sure what it actually takes of video quality and distance to make this work well...
Camera Grids and other stuff
There is a lot I have not tried and some I have just touched:
- Camera grid - With (only) 5 Cams I relly only need one
- Workers - It seems that Camera.ui can offload work and use other ressouces - I guess that is why the website claims "Professional" NVR and seems to be for a small and medium business also.
- Sensors - not tested
- Automations - not tested
Problem solved: Defect videos are not an issue
Lastest Ive been engaged to Frigate with go2rtc - but (also for Scrypted) several recordings simply did not work or stuttered severely, leading to Frigate just showing the red ring and "loading...."
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