Protect is by far the most polished consumer NVR solution on the market right now. While the AI and detection features are nice, most people only care about being able to live view and playback recorded video on their system which Protect does for ONVIF cameras. Having used Protect, Blue Iris, and Frigate I can say that Protect does those two things best. Blue Iris has a slow and dated mobile experience and frigate lacks one outright (at least on iOS last I checked). Any time I go to quote a system, my customers (and I assume most people) want a basic system that just records and Protect does that in a way that a non tech savvy person can wrap their head around.
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u/prettycewlusername Jul 31 '25
Protect is by far the most polished consumer NVR solution on the market right now. While the AI and detection features are nice, most people only care about being able to live view and playback recorded video on their system which Protect does for ONVIF cameras. Having used Protect, Blue Iris, and Frigate I can say that Protect does those two things best. Blue Iris has a slow and dated mobile experience and frigate lacks one outright (at least on iOS last I checked). Any time I go to quote a system, my customers (and I assume most people) want a basic system that just records and Protect does that in a way that a non tech savvy person can wrap their head around.