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  • How long do you want to store footage for? With 6 cameras at 8Mbps each, you’d get less than two days of video on a 1TB drive. You could drop the bitrate quite a bit if you use H265 instead of H264, but it’s still not a huge amount of storage.

    Several manufacturers have sites to determine how much storage you’d need based on number of cameras, bit rate and how long you want to store the videos for. Just use any of those to get a rough estimate. Personally I’d recommend a 10TB or larger WD Purple Pro, since it has 512MB cache instead of 256MB.

    For the doorbell, I’d use a proper doorbell cam that can use the existing wires for power. Reolink’s wifi one comes with an adapter to use it with existing wiring.

    The Unifi cameras don’t support ONVIF, so you’re essentially locked into their ecosystem, and it’d be difficult to use them with a different NVR if you ever want to switch. Maybe that’s OK for your use case though.


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    Nothing wrong with a GUI. There’s a reason they exist and have mostly replaced TUIs, with the exception of some developer / power user tools. It’s significantly easier to discover features in a GUI compared to a CLI or TUI for example. The UX can be far richer.

    CLI tools are easier to make due to the simplified UX, but I’m hoping that something we see as a result of increased AI usage is that programs that should be GUI apps are actually built as such, rather than complex CLI or TUI ones.


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    Wow I haven’t heard that name for a long time… The last time I used it, I was using the horrible AMD/ATI fglrx drivers, and Compiz had been forked into a project called Beryl. Looks like that was around 2006 or 2007.