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I feel like there is a lack of solutions in this area. I messed with Zoneminder a few years ago and I never want to touch it again. What I would like to have is a low-maintenance setup in a docker container that I can throw on a VPS or raspberry pi, run it, set a username/password, point my dad to the web interface where he can configure anything he wants and I never have to deal with it again.

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Yeah...I messed around with iSpy (works, but not the best quality recordings for whatever reason), Blue Iris (works better than iSpy, but costs more and had a few times where it just...stopped working. Could't start the application up anymore, couldn't find any sort of safe mode to fire it up and export the profile for a reinstall. Just had to uninstall and reinstall.

After the second time I just said to hell with it and use the software built into my Synology NAS. It's slow and not amazing, but it's easy to keep the cameras and NAS on their own vlan and off the internet for security purposes.

That's exactly zoneminder that you describe! The configuration is maybe not very friendly, but once set up, I never had to deal with it again, and it has been up for many years now.

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