Beautiful and feature-rich CCTV/NVR for your camera's
Shinobi is Open Source, written in Node.js, and real easy to use. It is the future of CCTV and NVR for developers and end-users alike. It is catered to by professionals and most importantly by the one who created it.
Shinobi can be used as a Baby Monitor, Construction Site Montage Viewer, Store Camera DVR, and much more.
You can use Shinobi Pro for personal use without a license in non-commercial locations, for educational, or simple testing. Schools, Colleges, and Universities do not require a subscription.
The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Hass.io add-on.
- Add our Hass.io add-ons repository to your Hass.io instance.
- Install the "Shinobi Pro" add-on.
- Start the "Shinobi Pro" add-on
- Check the logs of the "Shinobi Pro" add-on to see if everything went well.
- Surf to the superuser admin panel:
http://hassio.local:7440/super - Log in with the superuser credentials as specified in the add-on configuration.
- Create a Shinobi user account.
- Logout from the superuser panel.
You are now ready to use Shinobi, use the freshly created login from now on.
NOTE: Do not add this repository to Hass.io, please use:
https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository.
Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.
Example add-on configuration:
{
"log_level": "info",
"super_username": "admin@shinobi.video",
"super_password": "admin",
"mysql": false,
"mysql_host": "core-mariadb",
"mysql_username": "shinobi",
"mysql_password": "sh1n0b1",
"mysql_database": "shinobi",
"mysql_port": 3306,
"mail_service": "gmail",
"mail_username": "your_email@gmail.com",
"mail_password": "your_password",
"mail_host": "smtp.example.com",
"mail_port": 587,
"mail_secure": false,
"mail_cert_verify": true,
"ssl": false,
"certfile": "fullchain.pem",
"keyfile": "privkey.pem"
}Note: This is just an example, don't copy and past it! Create your own!
The log_level option controls the level of log output by the addon and can
be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are
dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:
trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.debug: Shows detailed debug information.info: Normal (usually) interesting events.warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.fatal: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.
Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a
more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default,
the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless
you are troubleshooting.
The username to access the superuser control panel. This user is an administrative user. This user does not have cameras to manage nor can it see any cameras. Its purpose is to manage Admin accounts settings, limitations, and view system logs.
The password for superuser of the superuser control panel.
By default, the add-on uses an internal SQLite database for its data.
Set this option to true to enable MySQL as the database backend for this
add-on. You'll need an external database server for this, like the
MariaDB core add-on provided by Home Assistant.
Note: There is no migration system. When using SQLite at first, and switching to MySQL later on, would result in data loss.
Note: When using the core MariaDB add-on, please be sure to create a separate database and user for Shinobi. DO NOT use the same database as Home Assistant.
The hostname of the MySQL server to connect to. In case you are using the
MariaDB core add-on, please use core-mariadb as the hostname.
The username to use when connecting to a MySQL server.
The password to use when connecting to a MySQL server.
The MySQL database to store all Shinobi's data in.
Note: DO NOT store Shinobi's data in the same database as Home Assistant!
The port the MySQL server is running on. Should be 3306 in most cases.
The mail service to use. Can be either smtp or gmail.
The username to use when connecting to the mail service.
Note: Please use your full mail address when using gmail.
The password to use when connecting to the mail service.
The smtp host or IP to connect to for sending emails.
Note: This option is ignored when using gmail as the mail service.
The port the smtp host is listening on.
Note: This option is ignored when using gmail as the mail service.
If true the connection will use TLS when connecting to the server. If false
(the default) then TLS is used if a server supports the STARTTLS extension.
In most cases set this value to true if you are connecting to port 465.
For port 587 or 25 keep it false.
Note: This option is ignored when using gmail as the mail service.
Setting this to false would allow Shinobi to open a connection to
TLS server with self-signed or invalid TLS certificate.
Note: This option is ignored when using gmail as the mail service.
Enables/Disables SSL (HTTPS) on the web interface of Shinobi. Set it true to
enable it, false otherwise.
Note: Enabling SSL would be additional to the already active plain HTTP
server. HTTPS will be available on port 5443, which, of course, can be changed
in the Hass.io add-on configuration.
The certificate file to use for SSL.
Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is default for Hass.io
The private key file to use for SSL.
Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is default for Hass.io
The add-on does not configure Shinobi for you. For example, you will need to configure all your camera's and other things yourself.
For more information about configuring Shinobi, please refer to the extensive documentation they offer:
Setting up Shinobi to use MySQL can be a little complex for some users. So, let us give you some examples.
First, install the core MariaDB add-on provided by Home Assistant (in case you didn't already have).
Edit the add-on configuration of MariaDB. We need to do 3 things:
- Add a database for Shinobi
- Add a user for Shinobi
- Give the created user access to the created database.
An example configuration would look like this:
{
"databases": [
"homeassistant",
"shinobi"
],
"logins": [
{
"username": "hass",
"host": "%",
"password": "god"
},
{
"username": "shinobi",
"host": "%",
"password": "sh1n0b1"
}
],
"rights": [
{
"username": "hass",
"host": "%",
"database": "homeassistant",
"grant": "ALL PRIVILEGES ON"
},
{
"username": "shinobi",
"host": "%",
"database": "shinobi",
"grant": "ALL PRIVILEGES ON"
}
]
}After modifying your MariaDB add-on configuration, be sure to restart the MariaDB add-on.
For the Shinobi add-on configuration, the defaults are matching the MariaDB
example above. So, you'd only need to enable the mysql option by setting
it to true.
This is a part of the Shinobi add-on configuration that matches the above example:
{
"mysql": true,
"mysql_host": "core-mariadb",
"mysql_username": "shinobi",
"mysql_password": "sh1n0b1",
"mysql_database": "shinobi",
"mysql_port": 3306,
}Save the configuration and restart the Shinobi add-on. The add-on will create all database internals (tables and structure) for you, the first time it connects.
It is possible to embed Shinobi directly into Home Assistant.
Home Assistant provides the panel_iframe component, for these purposes.
Example configuration:
panel_iframe:
shinobi:
title: Shinobi
icon: mdi:cctv
url: http://addres.to.your.hass.io:7440This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality. The format of the log is based on Keep a Changelog.
Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format
of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented
based on the following:
MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.
Got questions?
You have several options to get them answered:
- The Home Assistant Community Forum, we have a dedicated topic on that forum regarding this add-on.
- The Home Assistant Discord Chat Server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
- The Shinobi Discord Chat Server for Shinobi specific questions.
- Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant
You could also open an issue here GitHub.
This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.
We have set up a separate document containing our contribution guidelines.
Thank you for being involved! 😍
The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.
For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.
Want some more functionality to your Hass.io Home Assistant instance?
We have created multiple add-ons for Hass.io. For a full list, check out our GitHub Repository.
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Copyright (c) 2018 Franck Nijhof
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