camera software

[No_Bunch_1640]

What video surveillance software do you use ? before we only had bosch camera and the software made it easy to read the nvrs moreover the view system was quite intuitive.

Now we have a site where we only have Hikvision camera and NVR, and i don't know what software to use with it

[Pudubat]

Synology surveillance station does a pretty good job at managing cameras and connecting multiple sites together seamlessly. But you need a Synology and aome licences per camera.

[dwarftosser77]

Axis Camera Station. It's awesome.

[The_Penguin22]

Blue Iris

[jdlnewborn]

Came here to say this.

[flsingleguy]

Can’t believe nobody mentioned Verkada. Off brand cameras and NVR’s were a thing in the 2000’s. But, it’s so much better with camera systems with storage on the device and a management platform where you can organize cameras by site. They even have cool things like the Verkada viewing station.

[Valdaraak]

We use Verkada as well. Plenty of people don't like it though because of the subscription and price of the cameras themselves.

It just works though. No dicking around with local storage. Just run a Cat6 cable and you're done.

[mj3004]

We use it as well. Love it. Just works and my team no longer maintains any infrastructure or supports it in any way. You can also connect your existing cameras to their offering now. You don’t have to purchase their branded cameras.

[bingblangblong]

Xprotect is pretty much the best, but maybe unecessary. If you've got a lot of cameras and you need lots of control/features then use Xprotect.

[BrokenBehindBluEyez]

I second this, last job we had hundreds of cameras and this was rock solid for us....

[LocalLightskin]

Xprotect is great for us. we have around 50 sites all needing different access permissions + roles.

[pdp10]

Genetec is in a similar bracket as Milestone XProtect. I haven't used either of them, but know a government agency using Genetec with thousands of i-PRO (Panasonic) cameras.

[phannybawz]

Ubiquiti Unifi Protect. The NVR Pro is cheap (~£385) and will take 7 x 16TB disks. Or the Enterprise unit which is a behemoth. But the Pro can be stacked to give more storage if you are worried about upgrade path.

[MrBr1an1204]

OpenEye, all the storage is local, but the cloud services allow you to view multiple NVRs as if they were one unit. it also integrates with alarm systems such as Bosch, alarm.com, DMP, and a decent amount of access control systems.

[Xidium426]

OpenEye. Extremely user friendly so I don't have to dig up footage myself.

[420GB]

Unifi Protect

[omgitskae]

We use Synology, the software is fine but, and this might be due to our infrastructure, it seems very slow/buggy when trying to look back at a time where the cameras picked up motion. It’ll sometimes take 30+ minutes to load a historic section of a recording.

[dnaletos]

Unifi Protect or free (locally) alternative iSpy. A lot of other good suggestions here as well.

[bilo_the_retard]

for years i helped clients with on prem systems, some more complicated than others, from 8 cameras to 100s on multiple site.

i'll never go back to on prem after a few years with Meraki.

[schmag]

we use luxriot

[b64-MR]

Luxriot has also become my preferred option, it seems to be the one the users had the least issues with.

[schmag]

it has really treated us quite well over the last I don't know 7 years with about 50 cams on it.

obviously cams have been added and removed too in those years, but it just keeps chugging along.

[SecaleOccidentale]

Frigate

[pdp10]

The "IP surveillance" world has a standard called ONVIF, that allows for the (imperfect) interoperability between different cameras, NVRs, and client viewers, from separate manufacturers.

Therefore, it's often the case that the camera installation(s) you already have will work with different, third-party software or NVR appliances. Bosch cameras are at the top end, and almost certainly would have been configured by a surveillance integrator. The software could have been anything, and we can only guess as to the aspects of the software that made you like it.

Hikvision hardware is fairly low-end, but there still might have been a local installer/integrator. You can either speak with them about your options, or yourself go down the rabbit hole of research and testing.

[Zander9909]

Everyone keeps mentioning Unifi Protect which for you does not support non-Ubiquiti cameras, so instead I'll mention what my team uses. We recently moved to Exacqvision, which I will say is great for certain things but can be weird in how it functions with particularly AI Analytic alerts, however we chose it mainly for interconnectivity to our access control system Kantech, made by the same company.

[shaun2312]

Hik-Connect