Ubuntu Camera Management Software?

Middle_L

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Dec 24, 2025
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I work for a company as an Onsite Computer Vison engineer, Our Computer vision project has access to the Cameras and runs on the cameras a frame a minute due to the large amount of cameras at the site. Now to the Crux of the issue to update models I sometimes need to access the NVRs and take out videos of the mistakes that the models caused in detection and send these videos back to Team so they can annotate and train the models and send the models back to me so i can deploy them. On one of the sites I'm deployed to we have a windows system I just use SMARTPSS Lite and just get the very specific videos out and send them to the team. On the Other Site however we have an ubuntu system very good for Computer vision since lower overhead, however I am Struggling to find a application like SmartPSS lite that will just allow me to take the videos out and automatically detect the NVRs. I Just want something like SmartPSS lite which just works instead of all the setup and local web hosts and stuff like that. I was thinking of using Wine with SmartPSS lite but I don't know if it even works as all I found online on Wine DB was SmartPSS which is discontinued not SmartPSS lite if anyone has done this and it works could you give some info or if anyone has some alternatives to Smart PSS lite which are easy to setup it would be a Great help. Sorry for the weird capitalizations English is not my first language. The Computer is running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and there are 3 camera pools just for some extra info.
 
My Mint Cinnamon 19.2 runs smartPSS Lite under Wine. I did have to load a newer version of Wine than came with the original Mint install. The Lite version is V1.003.0000006.0, 2024-05-17, and the base Ubuntu is 18.04 bionic.
 
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My Mint Cinnamon 19.2 runs smartPSS Lite under Wine. I did have to load a newer version of Wine than came with the original Mint install. The Lite version is V1.003.0000006.0, 2024-05-17, and the base Ubuntu is 18.04 bionic.
Thanks I'll definitely try this ill have to experiment a little since it's Ubuntu 22.04 LTS not 18.04 as soon as i am able ill update the thread with what configuration worked for me.
 
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I’ve always wondered as a Linux user why they can’t make Linux based cameras and nvr’s work with my Ubuntu/Mint installs without VM. The only reason every laptop for the last 15 years was dual boot was for cameras and home theater/automation remotes.