Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

reallynotnick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you want to self-host you NVR then anything RTSP or ONVIF. I have a combination of Ubiquiti, Reolink, Dahua, and Amcrest cameras. They sit on their own network with no Internet access and can only talk to the NVR. That’s not exactly an easy setup though unless you are fairly technical but it is a private one.

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  • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I understood about 7 words of your comment

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    • totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If someone uses acronyms without explaining them, they’re “flexing” and can be ignored.

      But this person made it extra confusing by typo-ing “your NVR” as “you NVR,” which makes “NVR” seem like a verb.

      NVR = Network Video Recorder. A thing that records videos locally from your cameras.

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      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah, that’s just a cope statement. I knew what all those acronyms meant already, as would anyone who deals with security cameras with any regularity should. Also, using acronyms properly is a concise method of communicating useful information.

        If you were actually interested in the topic instead of just trying to imagine that people are “flexing” their knowledge to cope with lack of your own, you could simply use a search engine to learn what those acronyms meant in a few seconds of time.

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    • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RSTP is the streaming cam protocol. It shows up as a url with rstp:// instead of https://. You can type that url into streaming video apps like VLC (video lan client) and watch your videos with no configuration. There is no security on the feed so you have to secure your network instead.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any specific reason for the mixed brands? I went 100% Unifi in my home (cameras and networking equipment) and it’s amazing. Everything just works, and the apps are great. While I haven’t bothered to go through the effort of setting up a VPN so that the NVR is disconnected from the internet, I know it’s doable.

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    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really. I have a third-party NVR that can take any standards-based camera. I like the Dahua camera over the garage since it handles direct headlights VERY well. The Ubiquiti ones were a holdover from when I ran all their stuff I just haven’t replaced them. The Reolink was a cheap option to watch the corner of the basement where the water and sewer lines are. And the Amcrest is a cheap PTZ to watch other parts of the basement as needed.

      The benefit of a third-party NVR is you can mix and match cameras at will for whatever is best in that specific circumstance without vendor lock-in. Yeah it’s more complicated for sure but I like the flexibility.

      I use Wireguard on my phone for remote access when needed and it works great.

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• Hyzerflip@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ubiquiti is who I chose. Everything is self hosted, no service fees, good quality equipment and no extra frees for remote maintenance. The motion and AI detections work very well and of course all the products integrate seamlessly into their UniFi network equipment…BUT it’s more a whole network approach than just cameras.

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  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are pricey compared to wyzecam though, but probably worth it at this rate

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    • Hyzerflip@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not cheap, but not overly expensive. You are getting what you pay for without the privacy nightmare.

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  • reallynotnick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That does look pretty slick! Definitely something I will have to look into more.

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• nobo@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have had good luck with reolink cameras, which, so far, have with RTSP as a feature by default. They offer a program, which amazingly doesn’t require an account be made.

  I put custom RTSP firmware on all of my old Wyze cameras and then blocked them from WAN access.

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• gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Foscam is relatively cheap and I like the few PTZ cameras I have. I use RTSP and block their access to the internet. For the timestamp to stay synced I redirect the Foscam DNS requests to an NTP docker container.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do foscams work well with Frigate? The next step in my Smart Home evolution is Cameras and I’d like to use Frigate because it integrates well with Home Assistant (and I already have the Google Coral Module).

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    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I messed around with Frigate once but never spent any time with it since TPUs are impossible to find these days and I didn’t have a use otherwise. I know I at least got to the point where I was viewing the stream in Frigate, but I can’t vouch for anything past that point.

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• jmanes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can use Ecobee’s cameras with HomeKit secure video. Just block the cameras from being able to talk to the internet via firewall first.

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