Just ditched my Dahua NVR for Frigate
I set up my home surveillance almost 10 years ago. Dahua NVR came highly recommended to me. When I first hooked it up, i was kinda shocked at how terrible it was. I never could get motion events to work and the remote access was flaky. Whenever id get a new phone, thered be a new app thatd take me hours to get the remote access working.But, it recorded and I could view the cameras, so, I lived with it.
Over the weekend, I started putting in a homelab server. I have about 40 dockers running with various services. I decided to try frigate and I'm so happy with how well it works. I put it on a cloudflare tunnel with cloudflare access controls. Now, I can pull up the cameras with no fuss and the motion tracking worked without even doing anything. Night and day difference from the Dahua nvr
The computer is a Dell Optiplex sff with a 13500 and its running Ubuntu server. Im currently running 5 cameras and its only using about 13% cpu for everything im running