Giving up on PC + Blue Iris- should I try an NVR?

[IAmATeaf]

You know nothing about my IT industry background or technical skills to make such a bold statement....but you can believe whatever false assumptions you want to make up.

He was replying to your everybody knows windows systems restart by themselves statement and if you truly believe that or have experienced it then it does sort of show that haven’t really configured windows to stop this?

 

[fps66]

I went a different way. I do not have any alerts stent to me, but the system does have that capability.
I did start with a NVR from Andy, but later due to power issues during a storm while I was away had too much trouble with the NVR when I returned home.
I purchased a used server computer with lots of ram and a 16 core processor for 500$
I installed Home Assistant OS with Frigate plugin. I use the drives pulled from my NVR to record to. I use the computer to do the AI processing. It records 24/7 and cpu is nearly asleep.
I set up a nice speaker that plays a nice door bell sound when a human is detected near my door. It also plays a car horn sound if a car is detected entering my driveway.
I am too far to hear the tornado siren (they are being decommissioned across the country) so another plugin gets alerts and plays a chime for a tornado watch, and a siren for tornado warning.
Frigate is designed to detect a wide variety of objects warm blooded and not. I do get false ID's on deer, and coons, but it general ID human and dog properly. Even when I am on the riding mower or tractor.
It was much work to set this all up, but I have really liked the results over the NVR.

 

[mephisto_uk]

i would highly suggest you give Scrypted NVR a try.. Scrypted Network Video Recorder

That is actually very interesting. I'm going to check it out.

 

[Sonnie]

I installed Home Assistant OS with Frigate plugin. I use the drives pulled from my NVR to record to. I use the computer to do the AI processing. It records 24/7 and cpu is nearly asleep.
I set up a nice speaker that plays a nice door bell sound when a human is detected near my door. It also plays a car horn sound if a car is detected entering my driveway.
I am too far to hear the tornado siren (they are being decommissioned across the country) so another plugin gets alerts and plays a chime for a tornado watch, and a siren for tornado warning.
Frigate is designed to detect a wide variety of objects warm blooded and not. I do get false ID's on deer, and coons, but it general ID human and dog properly. Even when I am on the riding mower or tractor.

That's pretty cool to have the horn honk when a car approaches. Is that a HA Frigate setting?

I'm in Alabama as well... Luverne. Where are you, if you don't mind sharing?

 

[fps66]

That is done setting up an "automation" under HA so when camera one car count increments up it plays the car horn sound. When camera two person count increments up it plays the door bell sound. I'm about 15 miles west of Roanoke.

 

[Sonnie]

That is done setting up an "automation" under HA so when camera one car count increments up it plays the car horn sound. When camera two person count increments up it plays the door bell sound. I'm about 15 miles west of Roanoke.

I have the green HA but haven't done anything with it due to too many outside projects. I'll probably get it set up soon, though.

You are not too far from the Talledega Nat'l Forest... we have been up that way a few times in the last year or so Jeep trail riding. Took us 2.5 hours to go just a few miles down either 601 or 602... crazy rough.