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Having thrown countless hours into zoneminder I had to give up. It's just too buggy. Does anyone have any other alternatives they've got to work? Open Source or otherwise

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I tried zoneminder in earnest and was severely disappointed. I've been running Ubiquity Video in a container on my local server, which is pretty great as a simple NVR, but _only_ works with their cameras, which won't work for me.

Blue Iris seems to be the overall favorite, and it's pretty inexpensive considering the fact that it seems to be so well regarded. I don't have Windows on my network, and I was strongly considering running BI on KVM, but I don't think my old server is beefy enough to reliably run windows with video software. I was also looking into building a box for it, but it turns out buying a used Optiplex on Ebay was cheaper and should be more than enough for tracking a few cameras.

I'll be setting it up this weekend, so I don't have much of my own experience to share, yet.

Try shinobi or motioneye if you want open source.

There's quite a few solutions in this space: free, freemium, and commercial.

I don't recommend Shinobi after using it for a few months. It's far from finished, can't do most basic stuff and the interface is horrible.

I saw a commercial software solution a number of months ago that used some kind of machine learning or AI to reduce false positives on motion detection but now I can't find it. Are you familiar with any software that does this?

Synology Surveillance Station is pretty nice, but closed source.

Look into Milestone XProtect, super solid, have a free version.

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