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Frigate can run in its own container and provide its own web GUI. You get extras if you integrate it with Home Assistant but if you think those aren’t worth spinning up an instance, then you don’t have to.
Blue Iris is another good option if you don’t mind Windows (blah I know but at least it’s still self hosted and fully under your control).
I’d recommend frigate for basic recording features. Its human detection is pretty bad even with compute, but recording and transcoding is very solid. It can be self hosted as standalone. Been using one for a few months now and it’s rock solid. Only downside is that you have to configure it via yaml.
Another solution I can recommend, especially if you want to more easily integrate with HomeKit or any of the other smart home providers is Scrypted. It’s more UI centric and covers all the same bases as frigate, though slightly more resource intensive.
Meh. So its in a Business location cause it watches My Business + My Familys Business + Our House and Parking spots.
I dont think face recognition is too smart in such case?! Since it has probably >300 Faces each day
Scrypted leverages on camera motion detection and is much less resource intensive than other solutions.