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Hello everybody,
I'm Juri, writing from Italy.
I'm totally new and noob to NVR systems so I'm trying to find info putting together pices taken here and there.

I would like to set-up a home surveillance system with a minimum of 2 and maximum of 6 cameras.
At the moment I have 2 TP-Link Tapo C500 cameras. They have a proprietary app and free subscription that can only send text push notifications when triggered. They also have on-board recording capabilities through additional SD card. Their basic people/objects detection (without upgrading to payed cloud subscription) is not very accurate.

What I would like to create is a simple system that can:

- activate cameras only when triggered by motion
- start recording on ssd when triggered by motion
- take a snapshot when triggered
- send me the snapshot somehow to mobile phone.
- I also would like to live stream my cameras at any moment from remote.

I want to spend the minimum possible amout to build this system while I want it to be stand-alone installed on its own server/pc.
I'm probably going to buy refurbished/used components off ebay.
Could you please give me a minimum setup indication regarding CPU - GPU - Ram, etc.?

Thank you very much!!!

No one interested?

eudemonico wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:47 am - activate cameras only when triggered by motion
- start recording on ssd when triggered by motion
- take a snapshot when triggered
- send me the snapshot somehow to mobile phone.
- I also would like to live stream my cameras at any moment from remote.

You should use a HDD, not an SSD. SSDs have limited write cycles.
You will probably want at least one 4TB, or 2 x 2TB. These are in addition
to the OS HDD, which should be its own device.
For sending emails with photo previews see https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Email
For the easiest live streaming of cameras, you probably want ZMNinja (though the default website also works).

For CPU, you will want about 6 physical cores. You might be able to get away with 4, but having
extra gives room for expansion. GPU is not needed. RAM should be at least 16GB.

If you run at a lower resolution you can use a less powerful CPU. The system is flexible. You will want
to run them like this: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Dummies_Gui ... Zoneminder

And browse the other posts on this sub board.

EDIT: see also the wiki post here: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Hardware_recommendations

Thank you very much.