That 8 port switch I bought is full, I’ll be looking at getting a 16 port if I ditch Hikvidion and go full UniFi
Hard to find these days but a great allrounder
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They’re fairly nice setup, I just feel I may be able to save power wise if I move the cameras to UniFi protect
We used to use Hikvision for sites that needed 24/7 monitoring pretty industry standard in business, then Unifi for everthing else, i use Unifi at home and does what i need just about to try these new mini PTZ cameras…
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Not sure how much power you would save. They draw relatively the same amount of watts over POE. The benefit is the ubiquiti Eco system
Ive got 4 x hikvision ds-2cd2387g2-lsu/sl and for the price they are about best in class, bar Axis which are silly money.
I use a totally different NVR solution to hikvision though.
Dev has a demo page
I get 0 false alerts, so i know if my phone goes off at night then someone is on the drive/backgarden and not a fox that is strolling around the area 
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If your into self hosting give Frigate a go! Thats what I tend to use and it’s very very nice. This is along side the UNVR
Here is an example of some of mine, i run them on external switches USW Flex switch in the utility enclosure, i am planning to replace the switch with enterprise 8’s to reduse some cabling and have them on the aggregation switch even though they are a mix of 1Gb/100m
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Meh Frigate. Mobile app is 
I bought into the whole Coral TPU for object detection for Frigate, Google have basically left Coral in 2020.
Scrypted is miles ahead of Frigate.
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Really? I thought Scrypted was a simple way to get the camera into homekit. What did you find better at Scrypted over Frigate?
Hang on, when did Scrypted get a better UI?
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Scrypted is its own NVR solution. You can get cameras into homekit with it. But the UI, face detection, number plate recognition. Mobile app etc pretty much wipes the floor with Frigate and BlueIris. Ive tested loads of self hosted NVRs and nothing comes close to Scrypted.
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How odd, they must have had a revamp. I used it a year ago to pull RTSP into HomeKit for the apple tv and it was limited to say the least.
You using it with the Coral, or is that still not possible?
You can use it with Coral but Google have pretty much left it to rot. Mine runs on an I7-13700h as it has 96 execution units on an LXC in Proxmox, but You can run it on an N100 easily.
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Docs are pretty comprehensive.
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Please report back on these as I have been looking at them too!
The Future is now old man.
alsenior@EX4300-VC> show interfaces et-0/1/2
Physical interface: et-0/1/2, Enabled, Physical link is Up
Interface index: 704, SNMP ifIndex: 640
Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, LAN-PHY mode, Speed: 40Gbps, Duplex: Full-Duplex, BPDU Error: None,
Still available to buy from Use-IP who are pretty knowledgeable guys and have a dedicated forum that is pretty active. If it were discontinued with no further firmware updates they definitely wouldn’t be selling it still.
But this is two of my cameras of the four, one on the soffit and one just above the porch for better face detection. There is zero ambient light as the street lights get turned off at midnight here (stupid decision) but the sensor is doing a very good job of pulling in light with the small LED it uses. Pictures are compressed by the way, it’s a stunning picture when viewing on a 4k screen
Theres another model out now which is a hybrid DS-2CD2387G2H-LISU/SL
But it has a smaller sensor and ive never been a fan of infra red, attracts too many cobwebs
Nope the ds-2cd2387g2-lsu/sl doesn’t have darkfighter which is basically just infra red,
It has:
Acusense (AI detection)
Colorvu - Night time colour with the inbuilt LED, itll auto turn on when the outside lux levels get dim enough and turn off when the outside lux levels get bright enough, basically on at night, off in the morning.
Mic and Speaker
Siren and strobe light if intrusion or line crossing is triggered, can be turned off/on depending on preference.
If you want colorVu and Darkfighter hybrid go for the DS-2CD2387G2H-LISU/SL but it has a smaller sensor.
ds-2cd2387g2-lsu/sl has a 1/1.2″ Progressive Scan CMOS
ds-2cd2387g2H-LISU/SL hybrid has 1/1.8 Progressive Scan CMOS
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This is what it currently looks like outside on the camera, and its pretty much pitch black. Highly rate the cams.
And line crossing > human detection > target validity set to high > Minimum size also set. Its fine tuned in such a way that I get zero false alerts. Took abit of fine tuning but its spot on now.
I’ve also got MQTT triggers set in Scrypted that if the line crossing is triggered between midnight and 5AM, it turns on the bedroom and downstairs phillips hue bulbs, so i’m awake and ready to tell the little sh*ts where to go 
I do like the hick vision camera, However, the software on the nvr Is absolute dog shit, You have to run an extension called web components to get a live view for some reason