Hi, zoneminder is, as Stuart said, overcomplicated, plus unmantained and unable to catch the more modern streams from IP cams. The best free alternative is SHINOBI https://shinobi.video which is based on java and ported on linux, mac and wi(n)dows, I do not know it it would be feasible an OpenBSD port (theorically yes https://gitlab.com/Shinobi-Systems/Shinobi/tree/master/INSTALL contains the stuff).
On amd64 platform it works great! I am soon going to install it on an ODROID-HC1, although I read around that on arm (unsupported) platform motion detection is crippled. On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 7:07 PM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2019-01-01, kayasaman <kayasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. For this type of setup Zoneminder is great. I have no experience > running it on OpenBSD though. > > There is an unfinished zoneminder port in openbsd-wip. I must say the > architecture looked rather overcomplicated to me .. > > multimedia/motion is simpler and supports uvideo and some network cameras > but maybe too simple. > > > As for cameras have you looked at HikVision? They are very reasonable > pricewise when compared with say Axis. > > HikVision and Dahua have good reasonably-priced cameras. I don't know > about other markets but in the UK most of these seem to stop their > distributors showing prices publically. (There was a point hikvision > tried to restrict distribution to only "official" installers too, but > this stupidity seems to have subsided a bit since). Haven't tried them > via OpenBSD though. (Most of the decent installations I have seen use > Milestone's software on Windows which they are fairly happy with). > > I wouldn't say anything good for security for any of this type of device. > It is all crap. IMHO put cams on at least a dedicated vlan if not fully > separate network infrastructure and don't let them have access to or from > the internet. If you need to connect to them from outside the network, > bounce your connections off another machine. > > Another reply mentioned onvif. This is no magic "it will do useful > things" bullet and it is pretty bare bones. If you have software in > mind then look for cameras particularly listed as being supported. > > >
