Looking for advice for NVR and Home Assistant

Truckersparks · April 15

I have decent homelab server running Unraid as OS. Wanting to get away from monthy subs and set up automation cause my teenagers cant understand the concept of a light switch can be turned off when not in the room. im currently used blink for cameras and really want to get away from them. I live in an appartment so hard wiring is a no go, they are very picky I had to unhook my Blink door bell from the internal wiring. I know there are several way about going around doing this with Pros and Cons on Both sides. I have a budget of about $400 I need 6x Internal wifi cameras and some battery powered wifi external (All camera must be able to mount on the wall instead of standup type). I dont mind running a DVR Software in a VM (Currently have a 12Core 16gb ram windows 11 VM for other things running already) or a Docker. I know I could run a standalone NVR but I would perfer to use the Server.

Here is the specs

2x Xeon Gold 6154 (C36/T72 Together)

384GB DDR4/2666mhz Ram

4TB U,2 NVME SSD

102TB Hard Drives

I was thinking of these

https://www.amazon.com/security-cameras-wireless-outdoor-tapo/dp/B09ZZJB6VX

or even giving Eufy a try (Yes I know about the contervesy about them a year ago)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0912R591N

Not sure what NVR software to run.

Bottom line I got $400 I need 7 Camera's and a NVR Software. Please help and thankyou for any suggestions.

LIGISTX · April 15

For home automation, use home assistant. Really nothing else even comes close.

For NVR, look into blueiris. I have not used it personally, but I know it’s quite popular. May also be able to use home assistant (I do use home assistant to share NVR streams from a dedicated NVR to Apple HomeKit, but I don’t personally use home assistant as the NVR itself.