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Ivideon on Kubernetes, the simplest form of HA video surveillance

by C. A. Zamfir

The decision to go to Kubernetes (managed deployment on Digital Ocean) was so that I could also free my home-server and eventually shut it down. There I hosted the Windows-based Ivideon server, on a Windows VM running on Proxmox. The internet in Romania being broadband helped a lot. I’m actively using Ivideon to record activity around the properties we hold.

Though in need of one for a quick deployment, I couldn’t find a HELM chart or something already done. On the other hand, the server itself is pretty stateless and just needs a configuration file and a PV to hold the archive, so not too big of a challenge to write a deployment file for it.

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DIY surveillance with Ivideon and PNI

by C. A. Zamfir

I seem to have a crush on Ivideon in combination with ONVIF-compatible devices (most under the PNI brand which has proved reliable in the past years for my offline DVR that I keep at our work-in-progress home at the country-side, on my father’s land, donated a few years ago to me).

These days I went off on a small house project to mount a few speed dome cameras at my in-laws house, at the country side also. The reasons I wanted to do the project was because my in-laws recently contracted a FTTH service (Fiber To The Home) from one well known provider in Romania (Digi/RCS&RDS).

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