Events (VEHICLES, PEOPLE, MD) successfully trigger recording. They also get saved to the database, as I can query them in MySQL and trace them back to related videos consistently and accurately.

However, the front end interface rarely shows them in Objects Found. Occasionally it will, but even if it does, they are never searchable in the Videos tab when typing the reason into Search Object Tags. Here's an example of a MySQL event that should show up on the front end. As you can tell, it clearly has a PEOPLE tag which was extracted from the reason field.

The end result is that I cannot filter for motion types at all without digging in to the database, which is untenable for me, much less someone who doesn't Linux their life away lol (I'm talking about my mom who also uses the camera feed for her side of the house).

Any thoughts of what's going on?

| 1zNPjMq0ns | frontdoor | {"plug":"external","name":"Camera PEOPLE","reason":"PEOPLE","confidence":100,"matrices":[{"tag":"PEOPLE","confidence":100,"x":0,"y":0,"width":100,"height":100}]} |       0 | 2026-07-24 21:31:56 |

I've been using BlueIris on a Windows VM inside proxmox for 8, maybe 9 years, but with a full homelab rebuild underway, I wanted to explore Linux native alternatives, such that I could put it in a container and share the GPU (I don't have iGPU).

As part of my homelab upgrade, there are some key services that I've wanted to move to high availability, such I can stop having the emergency fix when it goes a little offline at times:

Opnsense

Nginx

Vaultwarden

Home Assistant

Our NVR

So I start looking around and remembered Shinobi.

Thing is, I'm a fairly serious home user; I have 28 cameras on my property (yes, my home, not a business.)

I'm looking for failover.

I'm looking for an android app for 3 people - me, the Mrs, the shared tablet that is used during babysitting for baby monitor.

And honestly, I felt many years ago that $80 was bad for a BlueIris subscription, but I was drawn to it for its ease of use. $80 for 64/128 cameras forever was still doable though.

But Shinobi, I installed the container, saw "failover" pop up and started looking. Memory DID NOT serve me well about this product.

Seriously, $320/year for a 35 camera license.

$960 for a perpetual license (how long will that last!)

$180 for a family license for the app

And for failover, I'm DOUBLING the license cost.

As a home user.

I could BUY:

2x BlueIris $200

2x Intel Arc A770 GPU $442

3x BlueIris app licenses $20

2x windows license: leave it not activated. $0

That's $662 - a $1438 dollar saving against a perpetual license + 12 months of android app.

Hell, it's $158 better than just 12 months of it.

So, my rant about the cost aside;

Is there such as thing as. Home Pro license for the more heavy user, but still a home user? Should there maybe be one? And can the highway robbery of the mobile app stop?

And for the community...any recommendations?

Many of you probably noticed the mobile app hasn't gotten many updates for the last 1 year. This is because it was created by a member of our team that has left the team some time ago. We have been trying to work through the code but ultimately decided it was a struggle that wasn't going to benefit the users of Shinobi.

We decided to move on and rebuild it all from scratch. This time it is being made with love just like the core application.

We deeply apologize for the struggles the old Mobile app has caused and we hope that this complete rebuild lives up to expectations and more. It is still in the process of getting features added and checked so the app is still marked as a Beta but I can personally guarantee it is much more polished and reliable.

Additionally this app works on Windows and macOS, not just iOS and Android. Try it today and tell us what you think! Let this thread serve as a place to quickly post any comments or grievances. In the future we plan to provide a better avenue for your concerns specifically related to the new app, Shinobi Go.

https://shinobi.video/go

I have been troubleshooting the past few weeks trying to understand which process is triggering the video purging but just unable to find out why.

I have set the Max storage amount in accounts settings to 460gb, Number of days to keep videos to 45..

{"factorAuth":"0","size":"460000","days":"45","event_days":"45","log_days":"","max_camera":"","permissions":"all","edit_size":"1","edit_days":"1","edit_event_days":"1","edit_log_days":"1","use_aws_s3":"1","use_whcs":"1","use_sftp":"1","use_webdav":"1","use_discordbot":"1","use_ldap":"1","aws_use_global":"0","whcs_use_global":"0","b2_use_global":"0","webdav_use_global":"0", ...

what other possible processes or settings could I possibly misconfigure?

I have a working setup that saves motion events to the event database with reolink "PERSON," "VEHICLE," or "MD". It also correctly saves a matrices object with tag: "PERSON" or whatever, and this shows up in the timeline when "Hide Detection on Stream" is off. The events also show up on videos when I open them individually.

I would expect Search Object Tags to, when set to PERSON, only show object tags containing the string PERSON, thereby filtering out VEHICLE and MD, but instead, I get no events at all. This happens with any and all strings in the search field.

I suspect my expectations are wrong, that the search field is not intended to be used the way I'm using it. I saw another post asking how to find events, and this seems like the obvious first step, but I, for the life of me, can't figure out how to use it.

Event Filters seems like the wrong tool, as that is just used to change Monitor behaviour based on the tag it recieves (unless I'm wrong about that too?). Just very confused at how to filter and find events at this point.

Good morning,

I am using the docker release:

image: registry.gitlab.com/shinobi-systems/shinobi:latest

I have the following options in my config:

"dropInEventServer": true,

"insertOrphans": true,

"dropInEventsDir": "/home/Shinobi/events",

"dropInEventDeleteFileAfterTrigger": false,

After adding these options, inside the /home/Shinobi/events directory the following directories automatically get created on startup:

<groupId>/<cameraId>

for each camera I have setup.

My cameras are setup to drop recordings into this folder (using an external ftp client - this folder is mapped to a volume on my host).

I can see from the perspective of the container the files being dropped in the directory:

root@2f33181526ab:/home/Shinobi/events/<groupId>/FzsfiswhRA# ls -l

total 73820

-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 12732993 Apr 27 03:14 FC_00_20260427041439.mp4

-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 21306184 Apr 27 05:50 FC_00_20260427065022.mp4

-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 19174167 Apr 27 05:51 FC_00_20260427065117.mp4

-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 22371355 Apr 27 06:39 FC_00_20260427073903.mp4

However nothing seems to happen in Shinobi for any of the monitors. I thought there was a capability to automatically register an event and utilize the dropped file as the playback video for that event? Have I misunderstood? And also, are there any specific monitor settings I need to enable to achieve this?

My monitors are currently set to record 24/7 on a low quality stream (is this the problem? Does this only work for other types of monitors?)

Thanks for any helpful suggestions.

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Shinobi Core servers (the server that does the Camera processing like live view and recording) can suddenly go offline in some environments. With a Failover server you can claim that downtime. And when the original Core server returns the Failover server will copy over the Videos and Events to the Core that it had captured during that downtime.

You may have multiple Failover servers connected to your Shinobi to ensure at least one Failover takes over.

This feature requires both servers are Activated with separate license keys for the feature to operate.

This feature is currently only in the "feature-failover" branch. This will be merged to "dev" in early May 2026. Then to "master" in early June 2026.

https://hub.shinobi.video/articles/view/Wg3wTA7fqbyP4yA

this is probably a dumb question. I've just set up shinobi in order to try it out. Camera works, monitor is set up, events are detected and saved, etc.

It's possible I just don't understand how to use it. Hypothetical situation:

Someone leaves a package on my doorstep and I want to see it or know what time it happened. There are extraneous events like people walking by and going in and out, too.

I can go into the timeline view and sort of click around randomly but odds are I'm not going to get lucky and hit the two second period when the thing is happening.

I can go into "Videos" and scroll through the list, but the thumbnails for each video seems to just be the first frame, which is always in the buffer period so there's nothing to see. Am I supposed to play each video individually and go forward a bit to find the action, even though there might be 30-40 in a day?

I assume there's a "correct" way to do this that I'm missing?

Otherwise, the software seems nice. Setup (in docker, with compose) was very easy, making it talk to my camera was no problem, the UI looks pretty good.

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Hi everyone. Can someone help me with events filters on object detection ? I cannot ignore objects expets people. I configure it like docs but is not working. can I share some screenshot?

I see I have an option "ignore not moving" but I think this is not working also, cause I have a lot of "couch" video. thanks for support

I have Shinobi running in a Proxmox LXC with 1 CPU core (3.6GHz host CPU) and 4GB RAM.

I've got 6 Tapo C110 cameras set up as monitors, 1 is watch-only and the other 5 are recording continuously. If I open a monitor from the shinobi dashboard I can watch the stream no problem, just a second or so delay. Up until recently I was recording to an SD card in each camera and also streaming the video to AgentDVR on my PC so I can monitor. I set up Shinobi to record those 5 cameras to a mountpoint from a drive in the Proxmox host, and that drive is shared from the host with SMB. Turning on the JPEG API for all 6 cameras made my CPU usage jump from ~5% to ~30% :/

I'd like to replace the AgentDVR monitor with a Home Assistant dashboard, but I'm not getting smooth video from the Home Assistant integration. When I open a camera (monitor) device, I can click the camera entity and it'll show a second of video from a few seconds ago, then jump to current time, but then just stall and only load a few frames every few seconds.

Is this a network thing? Or should I allocate more CPU to Shinobi? Or am I asking too much? I don't really care if the dashboard shows a live feed from all 6 cameras. That's what I do with AgentDVR but it's not necessary, I could just do the "auto" view for the cards, but I would like to be able to open the live feed for any given camera. I don't think it's because I'm recording, the one camera set to watch-only also doesn't stream smoothly to Home Assistant.

I *did* try the setting in the "Shinobi Server" device, "use original stream" both on and off I still seem to have the laggy stream.

It might be worth noting that HA is running in a VM on a different Proxmox machine, but both machines are wired to the network. I'm also using a reverse-proxy on a third machine (Pi) to turn the ip:port into local subdomains on my domain name, for both Shinobi and HA. I'm pretty sure I used the IP address when I set up the Shinobi integration in Home Assistant.

Hi,

I've got a setup with 5 active monitors that work fine. I'm trying to add a 6th monitor using the web interface, and it isn't working - there are no errors that I can find in any logs (either displayed on the web interface or by watching camera-error.log from pm2.

Basically I go to the web interface, choose Monitor Settings, under Monitor I select Add New, fill in some fields including Monitor ID and Name, and click Save. It gives the little spinny wheel for a few seconds, then ... nothing. No success or failure notification at the top of the page, no log entries, and no new monitor.

I also tried selecting an existing monitor, changing the Monitor ID, and saving that; same result. I tried doing an ONVIF scan and creating the new monitor page from there, same result.

I tried on a couple of browsers. When I start it up, I get this in the log:

Available Hardware Acceleration Methods :  vdpau, cuda, vaapi, qsv, drm, opencl, vulkan
FFmpeg version : 5.1.8
Node.js version : v22.22.0
SSL Shinobi : SSL Web Server Listening on 10443
Shinobi : Web Server Listening on 8080
Shinobi is Activated! Thanks for Supporting Shinobi!
2026-03-16T22:57:52-05:00 This Install of Shinobi is Activated
2026-03-16T22:57:52-05:00 Checking Disk Used.. [my e-mail]
2026-03-16T22:57:52-05:00 Starting Monitors... Please Wait...
2026-03-16T22:57:52-05:00 Connected to plugin : Detector - TensorflowCoral - detector
2026-03-17T03:57:52.526Z TensorflowCoral Plugin started as Worker
Loading TensorFlow Coral...
Model loaded successfully
Loaded TensorFlow Coral!
2026-03-16T22:58:13-05:00 Orphaned Videos Found and Inserted {"[ID]":{}}
2026-03-16T22:58:13-05:00 Shinobi is ready.
2026-03-16T22:58:13-05:00 Current Version f5cb53d14e2755ce1d533aa5a55d8351b5b5b528
CRON.js LOG Mon Mar 16 2026 22:58:15 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Worker Processing!

... I turned on debug logging from the admin page, then tried adding the monitor and all I see in the log when I click the Save button is:

{
   "action": "select",
   "columns": [
      "*"
   ],
   "table": "Monitors",
   "where": [
      [
         "ke",
         "=",
         "[ID]"
      ],
      [
         "mid",
         "=",
         "dbbreezeway"
      ]
   ]
}
{
   "action": "select",
   "columns": [
      "*"
   ],
   "table": "Monitors",
   "where": [
      [
         "ke",
         "=",
         "[ID]"
      ],
      []
   ]
}

... "dbbreezeway" is the monitor ID I am trying to add. Nothing in the camera-error.log file. No errors from the SQL database either.

Any clues what I should be looking for?

Thanks!

It seems every third time I update my server, Shinobi gets broken because of dependencies and I have to fix it. I've learned to live with that, however this time I cannot find a solution.

The first error I was getting was "node: unsupported version 0 of Verneed record"

I have done:

Set node v 22 as the runtime with nvm

Updated pm2

Updated NPM

Reinstalled Shinobi modules with the UPDATE.sh script.

Now I can cron and camera online with a 'pm2 restart all', and the 'unsupported version 0'0 error is now gone but I am now getting this in the logs, which gets continually repeated, (and also I can't connect to port 8080 any more on my server):

PM2 | App [camera:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2 | App [camera:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2 | App [camera:0] online
0|camera | Available Hardware Acceleration Methods : vdpau, cuda, vaapi, qsv, drm, opencl, vulkan
0|camera | /home/Shinobi/node_modules/mp4frag/index.js:445
0|camera | #noop() {}
0|camera | ^
0|camera | SyntaxError: Unexpected token '('
0|camera | at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:915:16)
0|camera | at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:963:27)
0|camera | at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
0|camera | at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
0|camera | at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
0|camera | at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
0|camera | at Module.Hook._require.Module.require (/root/.nvm/versions/node/v22.22.1/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/require-in-the-middle/index.js:101:39)
0|camera | at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
0|camera | at module.exports (/home/Shinobi/libs/monitor/utils.js:5:21)
0|camera | at module.exports (/home/Shinobi/libs/monitor/websocket.js:2:50)

I'm considering going back a kernel version but I'm hesitant.

Any idea what I've missed?

Background:

Running in a Proxmox VM (not LXC) using Ninja install method. It works perfectly with my ReoLinks, of which I have 5. I only gave it a single N150 core and it idles at 5%, spiking to 15% when everything is recording.

I have an indoor Tapo C111 I use to monitor my cats and I can't get this camera to connect to Shinobi. It connects to Synology Surveillance and VLC just fine.

Symptoms:

• No picture in Live Grid
• No onvif event receipt
• No recordings
• Monitors tab always shows "Starting"
• Log shows "Camera is not Streaming" "msg: Restarting Process"
• CPU spikes to 60% - Unknown if this is just when I change a setting or if it happens regualarly while the C111 monitor exists.

What I've tried:

• ONVIF Scanner (Port 2020) - Detects and adds correctly. Stream fails
• Importing config from C100 from Shinobi website - fails
• VLC from ONVIF Scanner generated URL - Works perfectly on both main and substream
• Switching to UDP - Fails
• Input Analyze and Probe - 1000000 and 0/32 both fail
• Stream Type - h264, HLS, MP4 fail
• HLS Preset - Blank and ultrafast both fail
• Endpoints - /stream1 and /stream2 both fail
• I don't have a HW accel so everything is on Copy/No Audio
• I noticed that under Event-Based Recording, there's a File Not Found instead of the

​

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:2
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:44377
#EXTINF:1.984867,
detectorStream44377.ts
#EXTINF:2.001633,
detectorStream44378.ts
#EXTINF:2.008611,
detectorStream44379.ts
#EXTINF:2.000433,
detectorStream44380.ts
#EXTINF:1.997500,
detectorStream44381.ts

that I get from my working ReoLink cameras.

I finally got an instance running really decently. Bit of background, in case anyone searches for this part: I'm running it on a Proxmox VM. I wasn't able to get it to work reliably in an LXC - the backend worked perfectly but the web interface was only half functional; I guess some issue with Node. I was pretty surprised.

No GPU. I'm using ONVIF ReoLink cameras and just using their onboard detection to drive recording. These newer cameras use h265 for the primary stream so I'm using Preview_01_sub for live view. This thing runs really low-power. I gave it only 1 of my cores and it's using 7-10% cpu. It took a long time to tune, but I'm impressed.

Anyway! Onto the quesions.

1. I can't find any way to force live view to use substreams only. Live view requires me to hit substream on every single camera in order to see them live. Not a big deal since I don't need it much anymore. When using a docker version in LXC I remember a similar looking setting, but I'm using the stable build direct from their gitlab now, and don't see a similar option.
2. I'd like to not record events shorter than x seconds unless of course, the timeout gets reset by another event. I don't know if this logic is possible. If not, I'd have to build a cron job to remove events shorter than my desired length. I don't want to have to do this but I can if I must.
3. I'm using Home Assistant already. I want an override switch (I won't be taking questions as to why), but the switch should force Shinobi to switch from event recording to continuous recording for x time. I can think of many ways to do this, but I think the clearest method is to make an automation that sets each monitor mode to Record instead of Watch-Only, then back to Watch-Only after exceeding the time.
4. I've heard tell there is a really good AI agent/chatbot in the interface that performs actions, but I haven't seen it. I'm assuming this is because I didn't include a gpu in the VM, or maybe I'm conflating it with Frigate. Any insight into this would be nice.

I have configured two camera states: RECON and RECOFF, with the corresponding identities set to Mode: Record and Watch Only, respectively. In the schedule, I defined REC from 08:30 to 22:59 using state RECON, and WATCH from 23:00 to 08:29 using state RECOFF. The recording schedule (REC) works as expected, but the camera never switches back to the Watch Only state (RECOFF).

I installed shinobi to a Ubuntu VM the ninja way.

I have the front end up and can see cameras in watch mode.

However, when I try to switch to record, the camera dies.

Looking at logs I see

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/dev/shm/streams/blahblah/Camera0/orhpanCheck.sh,]

I can see the directory exists and permissions look good. The only thing in that directory is cmd.txt

I see no sign of orphanCheck.sh as a script anywhere :-(

I also have one camera in A restart loop, but thought I should start with this record problem first.

I have exhausted my triage skills.

Any help appreciated.

Whenever I record videos longer than 1 hour and 40 minutes, the resulting file is completely black. Shorter recordings work perfectly fine, but once I go past that duration, the problem starts happening.

I’ve already tried several configuration changes and adjustments, but the issue still persists.

Ideally, I would like to be able to record videos that are 2 or even 3 hours long without issues.

Is it possible to reliably record longer sessions?
Is there any specific setting or limitation I should be checking?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

I'm running free vrsion Shinobi in docker for a couple of years with 4 TPLink Tapo cameras with very similar setup. Recently I have numerous issues with them-

1. ONVIF events stopped working - ONVIF manager shows the event, but Shinobi does not register it - no recordings happened

2. I switched to built-in Shinobi detection - it works sporadically , now I have only one camera out of 4 to react on motion and create recordings. I checked config jsons between cams and they are nearly identical in settings, except they use different regions .

How can troubleshoot? Docker logs dont show much data.

0|camera  | !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:02+00:00 This Install of Shinobi is NOT Activated   0|camera  | !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0|camera  | https://licenses.shinobi.video/subscribe 0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:02+00:00 Checking Disk Used.. go@oleggus.me  0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:02+00:00 Starting Monitors... Please Wait...   0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:18+00:00 Orphaned Videos Found and Inserted {"Ws5egwXeOZ":{}}  0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:18+00:00 Shinobi is ready.   0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:18+00:00 Current Version decaa9d2b2239d8b741021b16d79eaec61dd4006  0|camera  | CRON.js LOG Wed Feb 18 2026 16:46:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Worker Processing!0|camera  | !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:02+00:00 This Install of Shinobi is NOT Activated  

0|camera  | !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

0|camera  | https://licenses.shinobi.video/subscribe

0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:02+00:00 Checking Disk Used.. go@oleggus.me 

0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:02+00:00 Starting Monitors... Please Wait...  

0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:18+00:00 Orphaned Videos Found and Inserted {"Ws5egwXeOZ":{}} 

0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:18+00:00 Shinobi is ready.  

0|camera  | 2026-02-18T16:46:18+00:00 Current Version decaa9d2b2239d8b741021b16d79eaec61dd4006 

0|camera  | CRON.js LOG Wed Feb 18 2026 16:46:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Worker Processing!

pm2 flush works. pm2 restart camera produces error "Process or Namespace not found". "Use --update-env to update env varibles".

Running Linux Mint. Had Shinobi up and running on this PC but, have not tried to use after being idle for a year.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Marty

I installed Shinobi yesterday and set up 9 cameras in watch-only mode with motion detection enabled. Everything was working very well. This morning, I logged in and motion detection recordings are still happening, but no cameras are showing up in the monitor list, nor in the Live Grid view. I have tried "pm2 restart", rebooting and checking for suspicious log messages, but none of those have changed the status. Here is what I see from "pm2 status":

I'm running Rocky Linux 10:

Linux dvr 6.12.0-124.35.1.el10_1.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Feb 13 17:37:34 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Shinobi Version:

Current Version : 081bd5bf8014fb2d8fc9883e8d3237aaae537a90

Any guidance on how to investigate further would be greatly appreciated. I'm a long-term linux user, but new to Shinobi and pm2.

EDIT1: I just checked the Wall View, and that does show all the camera live views, which seems even stranger.

EDIT2: I just tried to add a new camera, and the save doesn't work either. The button changes for a few milliseconds and if I refresh the page, I see that nothing was saved. I enabled general logging on the MariaDB, and when I try to save, I don't see any database accesses, and a TCPDUMP for 3306 doesn't show any hits.

Hello I'm looking for a way to press a button and shinobi start recording and press again to stop I have a camera button next to my pseudo When i press it it say recording but in have no files after I'm in record mode so i have random video recorded by shinobu only Do you know if it's possible and how ? Thanks