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Previously asked 2 years ago.

What are folks using these days? Reolink seemed to be a popular choice 2 years ago. I'll start looking here.

I've been using Eufy (yeah, I know). Apparently, Eufy has a way to transfer clips to a NAS via RTSP. However, I've been seeing users complain that the transferred clips end up with degraded quality. Not great. De-great-ed.

My home server has plenty of space on it, so it would be cool if I could save clips (or all the video footage?) directly to my ZFS pool.

What do folks' security camera setup look like?

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 16 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Frigate and Reolink are a good combo. Frigate is absolutely fantastic and can detect objects, sounds, and/or save clips and recordings to your pool. There's really nothing better imo.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The answer is probably no but I wanted to ask as a sanity check: does this setup require an internet connection after the initial setup?

My family asked me to set up security cameras at my grandmas place, which has no internet and they don't want to pay monthly.

The idea is that family will visit and check the recordings regularely to see whether the services we hired do their job and not abuse my demented grandma.

I'm thinking of:

  • a rpi/minipc that can do it's own hotspot
  • a huge ssd slapped onto it
  • web interface that visitors can log into with a password
  • 2-3 wifi cameras that connect to it
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