Hi Guys,
Just joined and new to this space have done some research but am looking to validate my approach and get recommendations on the best hw/sw and strategy here.
Any help and advice would be appreciated
Thanks!
Just joined and new to this space have done some research but am looking to validate my approach and get recommendations on the best hw/sw and strategy here.
- Ideally I'd like to do detection/observation and identification out the front of my house, does it make sense to use 2 seperate cameras for this?
- e.g. 1x wide angle color night vision for detection and 1x vari focal for face recognition?
- if so what would be the best cameras to go for in this space? from what I can see the dahua 5442 is recommended as a vari-focal and the hikvision colorvus are good for detection?
- for the rear and sides of property that cover a smaller area would varifocals be a better strategy?
- When it comes to software it appears blue-iris is still the best out there in terms of capability?
- when it comes to running on hw is it ok to run virtualized or is the recommended approach getting dedicated hw e.g a NUC?
- how much storage would be a good amount and does it make sense to get disks that are designed for this purpose?
- I do have a coral tpu chip already so ideally i could use that but from what I can see blue-iris doesn't have great compatibility in that space relative to frigate/scrypted?
- are people running multiple solutions together?
- is this hardware required or will a nuc with some onboard graphics capability suffice if I'm only running 4-5 cameras total?
Any help and advice would be appreciated
Thanks!