Storage Solutions Open Source NVR vs Branded NVR and qns on the software scene with security cameras

Looking for Similar Setup. What are the concerns about the hardware / setup being chinese makes ? , I heard CP plus is home grown ,is it any better.
Any Indian make NVR and NVR cameras ?
Nothing, Literally nothing is indian made. Any one who told you otherwise is lying or just plain stupid.
There are concerns with Chinese made, Even if you assume they aren't intentionally backdoored, They frequently use older vulnerable versions of software. You should never give public internet access to a the NVR and if you need remote access, Do it over a VPN back to your home. (Plain wireguard or tailscale are good options for it.
Anys how do you guys have power backup for entire setup ? is there any AC to DC Battery to entire setup ? , basically dont want UPS or inverter ,it should directly run on battery and battery being charged all the time , is there any setup like this ?
My NVR is powered over POE. POE switch is powered using a battery and battery is connected to a inverter(to power AC equipment and charge the battery) and also connected to a 2KW of solar panels to handle outages. You can look into doing some thing similar.

I use a Reolink RLN36 NVR. Their apps are pretty good(on phones/ipad and windows/mac). Phone apps have some limitations but those don't come up often and I can always just use the desktop app when I need it.
Can you elaborate more? Does it have a good android app? Whats the total cost like?
The android app and their windows server app are reasonably good, support almost all the features you'll need and fairly reliable. I didn't have too many problems with it.

The downside is cost. You need a yearly subscription or pay a high one time cost for the server app and then you need to buy the mobile apps separately for each google account that needs access to the app. I did that but I have 20+ people who need access to cameras and I wasn't going to spend that much money. So i gave up half way on that project and switched to reolink's own nvr for my reolink cameras.
 
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Nothing, Literally nothing is indian made. Any one who told you otherwise is lying or just plain stupid.
There are concerns with Chinese made, Even if you assume they aren't intentionally backdoored, They frequently use older vulnerable versions of software. You should never give public internet access to a the NVR and if you need remote access, Do it over a VPN back to your home. (Plain wireguard or tailscale are good options for it.

My NVR is powered over POE. POE switch is powered using a battery and battery is connected to a inverter(to power AC equipment and charge the battery) and also connected to a 2KW of solar panels to handle outages. You can look into doing some thing similar.

I use a Reolink RLN36 NVR. Their apps are pretty good(on phones/ipad and windows/mac). Phone apps have some limitations but those don't come up often and I can always just use the desktop app when I need it.

The android app and their windows server app are reasonably good, support almost all the features you'll need and fairly reliable. I didn't have too many problems with it.

The downside is cost. You need a yearly subscription or pay a high one time cost for the server app and then you need to buy the mobile apps separately for each google account that needs access to the app. I did that but I have 20+ people who need access to cameras and I wasn't going to spend that much money. So i gave up half way on that project and switched to reolink's own nvr for my reolink cameras.
Thanks Ishan, wont waste my time exploring it then. Just one question, is there an -ahem- version of the server and a modded android app that makes life easy?
 
I haven't tried milestone but do give it a shot, both android app and nvr is free for the essential+ version
Thanks bro. No opensource apps upto the task? Cause I have more than 8 cams.
 
is there an -ahem- version of the server and a modded android app that makes life easy?
There probably is some thing like that since this is a old piece of software and very useful but I have not looked into it.
Thanks bro. No opensource apps upto the task? Cause I have more than 8 cams.
I have tested shinobi, zoneminder, ispy & frigate extensively. All of them are unreliable trash and should not be trusted for this task.
you using reolink na?
Yes, Reolink RLN36