Good evening everyone. Due to issues around our neighborhood, my father is now looking at placing cameras around their property. My house is directly across the yard probably about 200-300 feet away. I offered up the idea of wiring some cameras up and then placing beams between our houses for communication and grouping his cameras on my BI computer. However, desiring to remain independent (retired military), he wants everything located at his house and running on his own stuff. Only thing is, he states he does not want a complicated setup. Before I begin comparing cameras and other hardware (to be in another thread), I would like to request some advice about which option to take; NVR or BI. Personally, I prefer BI as I have never had an issue out of it. The only issue has been with expiring iOS certificates, but that’s on Apple, not BI.
As background, he does have an iPhone, so whatever system is chosen will need to have an iOS app, and preferably one that does not communicate with undesirable servers. We both use the same ISP, and that service is behind a CGNAT, and no IPV6 is offered. In my case, I have to run ZeroTier whenever I am outside of my network. In order to keep from typing LANs and WANs each time I switch between my network and ZeroTier, I had to create an “additional server” in my BI app to switch between. If that is the route that has to be taken, I wonder how quick it will be before he gets frustrated. If working with an NVR, I’m not sure that ZeroTier could be installed on one?
Next concern would be camera isolation as has been beat into my head over the past couple of years through this forum’s assistance. I know with a dual NIC or the cameras being on a separate VLAN (like in my setup), I can keep the cameras isolated. However, if one were to go with an NVR, how is that possible? Even if possible, wouldn’t the NVR and its app still communicate with undesirable servers (plus open up NVR to the internet and backdoors)?
I’m sure I will have many more questions to follow up, but these are my initial thoughts/concerns. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.
As background, he does have an iPhone, so whatever system is chosen will need to have an iOS app, and preferably one that does not communicate with undesirable servers. We both use the same ISP, and that service is behind a CGNAT, and no IPV6 is offered. In my case, I have to run ZeroTier whenever I am outside of my network. In order to keep from typing LANs and WANs each time I switch between my network and ZeroTier, I had to create an “additional server” in my BI app to switch between. If that is the route that has to be taken, I wonder how quick it will be before he gets frustrated. If working with an NVR, I’m not sure that ZeroTier could be installed on one?
Next concern would be camera isolation as has been beat into my head over the past couple of years through this forum’s assistance. I know with a dual NIC or the cameras being on a separate VLAN (like in my setup), I can keep the cameras isolated. However, if one were to go with an NVR, how is that possible? Even if possible, wouldn’t the NVR and its app still communicate with undesirable servers (plus open up NVR to the internet and backdoors)?
I’m sure I will have many more questions to follow up, but these are my initial thoughts/concerns. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.