User-friendly NVR and remote viewing?

[Gigapalooza]

What did you end up with? I have the same question - with one addition. My system will be completely local - no internet access so viewing takes place on site but using phone, tablet. Did you find a NVR you are comfortable with?

I'm still running the same setup (Dahua NVR5216-4KS2 and several IPC-HDW5442T-ZE)
I am considering Ubiquiti's platform as they finally opened it up to ONVIF support. UniFi Camera Security - Ubiquiti
It's something to consider as more features are added. The lack of internet may still be workable in a LAN setup - but you'd need to occasionally connect to update.

In another post here - this comment sums it up:
"In (Unifi Protect) you have a ready to use hardware/software platform with a very cool and easy to use mobile app and a mega nice web interface - two areas where neither HIK/Dahua nor BI are impressive..."

 

[Paul G]

I'm still running the same setup (Dahua NVR5216-4KS2 and several IPC-HDW5442T-ZE)
I am considering Ubiquiti's platform as they finally opened it up to ONVIF support. UniFi Camera Security - Ubiquiti
It's something to consider as more features are added. The lack of internet may still be workable in a LAN setup - but you'd need to occasionally connect to update.

In another post here - this comment sums it up:
"In (Unifi Protect) you have a ready to use hardware/software platform with a very cool and easy to use mobile app and a mega nice web interface - two areas where neither HIK/Dahua nor BI are impressive..."

Unifi with ONVIF sounds really good - I happen to have a Unifi network at my home - I have Unifi protect, but no cameras. I would seriously look into moving away from BI but until or unless Unifi supports IVS/Motion triggering within ONVIF it is a total no-go as all of my Dahua cameras are set up that way. Anyway, thanks for the reply - I'll keep looking.

 

[tmushy]

Unifi with ONVIF sounds really good - I happen to have a Unifi network at my home - I have Unifi protect, but no cameras. I would seriously look into moving away from BI but until or unless Unifi supports IVS/Motion triggering within ONVIF it is a total no-go as all of my Dahua cameras are set up that way. Anyway, thanks for the reply - I'll keep looking.

It does but very expensive at the moment. I think they are going to come out with an AI key that can handle a few third party cameras to get triggers.

 

[kd4e]

We have the newer xxx.AI NVR from Empiretech.

We're using a variety of cameras, some Reolinks, some from Empiretech, Dahua, etc.

The plan is to use a browser on a phone, via RustDesk (or similar - sandboxed by Netguard), that functions, essentially, as a terminal on the home network.

(Something simple, that doesn't phone-home like RustDesk, would be preferred. I haven't found such an app, for android/graphene, yet.)

The idea is that a. Layers of security at the home router & server level are more easily implemented, b. It's future-proofed (a terminal session is a terminal session).

Or, so I see it ... but, perhaps the concept of terminal emulation is too dated to be applied?

 

[tmushy]

We have the newer xxx.AI NVR from Empiretech.

We're using a variety of cameras, some Reolinks, some from Empiretech, Dahua, etc.

The plan is to use a browser on a phone, via RustDesk (or similar - sandboxed by Netguard), that functions, essentially, as a terminal on the home network.

(Something simple, that doesn't phone-home like RustDesk, would be preferred. I haven't found such an app, for android/graphene, yet.)

The idea is that a. Layers of security at the home router & server level are more easily implemented, b. It's future-proofed (a terminal session is a terminal session).

Or, so I see it ... but, perhaps the concept of terminal emulation is too dated to be applied?

Have you considered a kvm? Jetkvm is a new low cost network kvm that just came out. I run pikvm at home.
I also have a Sipeed NanoKVM: A RISC-V stick-on | Jeff Geerling which is nice too.
They support tailscale so you can remotely connect to them outside your network

 

[kd4e]

Have you considered a kvm? Jetkvm is a new low cost network kvm that just came out. I run pikvm at home.
I also have a Sipeed NanoKVM: A RISC-V stick-on | Jeff Geerling which is nice too.
They support tailscale so you can remotely connect to them outside your network

Remote access is on their cloud. That's a no-go. (If on my cloud, maybe.) Also, "Authenticate via OIDC: You will be redirected to an authentication page where you need to log in using your OIDC provider (currently only Google is supported)." - anything that involves the google/alphabet corporation is a show-stopper as well.

I'm looking for simple and secure remote access using my android phone. Logging into the NVR's web gui is fine at home. I'll look at others.

Thanks for the suggestions!

 

[tmushy]

Remote access is on their cloud. That's a no-go. (If on my cloud, maybe.) Also, "Authenticate via OIDC: You will be redirected to an authentication page where you need to log in using your OIDC provider (currently only Google is supported)." - anything that involves the google/alphabet corporation is a show-stopper as well.

I'm looking for simple and secure remote access using my android phone. Logging into the NVR's web gui is fine at home. I'll look at others.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I understand. Tailscale is a third party service and is not associated with any of the kvms. Its a pretty damn secure relay. The kvms are linux based so you can setup anything you want by logging into it.

 

[kd4e]

I understand. Tailscale is a third party service and is not associated with any of the kvms. Its a pretty damn secure relay. The kvms are linux based so you can setup anything you want by logging into it.

It appears that Tailscale, with github authentication, may be an acceptable and workable solution. Thanks!

 

[tmushy]

It appears that Tailscale, with github authentication, may be an acceptable and workable solution. Thanks!

Dive more into it you may like it . I have a tailscale site 2 site setup on some home routers of mine. I can completely access another network but they cant access mine. You can setup all sorts of fun things