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.
