Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras
They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
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Reading only the headline I assumed "not recommended because of the invasive Amazon tracking", instead it was "because some owners become vigilantes"...
I am searching also for a camera but I'm not finding it, can someone help me?
What it must be:
Seems impossible to find
I just grabbef a generic IP camera, connected it over ethernet, and firewalled it so it could not make connections out to my home network or the internet. Turns out it just uses an mpeg stream for the video, so recording it is just a matter of running curl on a server. Any network camera that does not depend on a server should work fine for this type of stuff.
Yeah, this. I do the same with my Reolink cameras - block all external access and I use a Frigate docker container to record footage to my storage. Bonus is I have Frigate using a Coral TPU, so it's got some really accurate, and fast, inferencing/recognition baked in.
Could I do this with an RPi 4 B 4GB, I wonder? I’m just About to have mine arrive and I would love to have a couple CCTV cameras in my place.
As long as you are just doing capture and aren't attempting to do anything where a re-encode of the video stream is needed then absolutely. You'll need something other than a microSD card though to write the video too.
Brilliant, yah I’d just want it captured and stored on like a WD NAS HDD attached to a computer in the basement.
Or if I ever get my ass in gear and set up my GSA…
Yes, elit does take some messing around to get working though, so I wouldn't recommend unless you want to spend a bit messing around with configuring a server. (Make sure to back up the pi's SD card so if it fails you can easily replace it)
Oooo thanks for reminding me to back up my PiHole too!
i'm also thinking to just take a cheap reolink and put over the door - but it would be cooler if there was a screen inside that turns on when someone is detected outside (even by an ultra cheap PIR sensor, don't need sophisticated AI recognition stuff)
Sounds like a job for a raspberry pi.
I’m looking at Ubiquiti’s UniFi doorbell. It’s not cheap, nor really intended for home installation (it’s more like office grade stuff), but I already use their networking kit and run their software.
nice, main drawback is the price (and that's not in stock in my country)
I heard some people on Lemmy talking about foscam for non-cloud cameras. They support onvif. Not sure if they have any in a "door monitor" form factor, though.
Look up the brand Intelbras they have a few residential intercoms that might work for you, I don't know where you are , but i know they exist the US and some parts of Europe and they might be cheaper there since they're a brazillian company (they're the best one we have I think?)
I have their regular câmeras and they fit all our criteria. Ours are online, buy ots by choice it's not a system requirement. At least a few years back a few of those intercoms with screens were compatible with the nvrs i believe.
uhm like the wT7 Lite
i searched buy they did not available at all in my European country