Comment on Finally have the stream from my HikVision, now the challenge of Frigate
trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoOk, probably came across it at some point but just now was browsing the website, which appears to be more user friendly. It appears to have a docker option and a dedicate mobile app. Based on website features content seems to be quite mature. shinobi.video/features
There seems to be a commercial entity behind it. The licence seems to be ad hoc gitlab.com/Shinobi-Systems/Shinobi/…/LICENSE.md
Not sure this becomes closed/payment only at some point or whether it has closed source blobs.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yah, that was where I figured it was going too, which was why I figured it went closed source.
Give it a try if Frigate doesn’t work out, it’s been trying to go paid for a few years now I think, but it doesn’t seem likely they’ll be able to knock off BI with what they have going there.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Apparently is Shinobi CE (Community Edition) which is licensed under GPLv3 but no longer maintained and Shinobi Pro (current codebase) under a “Shinobi Open Source Software License Agreement”. From what I understand though the source code is still fully available and inspectable. The Shinobi licence simply puts restrictions on it’s use (i.e. they want to monetise for commercial deployment). Quite clearly they are competing with BI as you say. They must have a unique selling point I hope … It means that only Frigate is truly open source/free software.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
IMO, they have nothing over BI, and as I said, the UX is very weird. I tried it again maybe 6 months ago when I needed to renew BI and it wasn’t winning me over.