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GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I have some amcrest cameras that are on PoE, save data to an SD card and aren’t connected to any amcrest cloud services. They work great. They have a viewer app that I remote into my network to review, but has no cloud connectivity outside of that. I have the switch and modem (and router) on a battery backup for the rare times I lose power.

As far as I can tell this is a minimally viable passably secure system that “just works”, requires no other hardware, and has local storage.

A few more steps such as a hard drive backup, nvr and so on would be great, but my needs are currently met.

This or something like this might be of interest for someone trying to move away from highly cloud connected subscription services but who aren’t ready for a more “hobbyist” setup.

It took me longer to research a quality sd card (so many fucking acronyms) than it did to install and test my 4 camera system.

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glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t say this to rain on your parade at all (especially because you’reset already) but you could have probably used the SD card money to buy a cheap server for Frigate for even more functionality!

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- GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep. Just didn’t want more hardware than I already had (plus the cameras).
  
  It’s great that there is a nice ramp of hardware and software you can scale with. Feel free to post that general setup architecture for others to consider too!
  
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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
as a tech enthusiast myself, and i would assume you are one too. Please for the love of god store that video on a hdd, or at least good quality flash first. Get an intel optane module if you don’t want to think about it, those things have the write endurance of a fucking shipping vessel.

Flash is probably the single worst thing you can use for continual writes like that, it’s just universally bad quality. If cost is an issue you can get a used 4tb hdd for like 40 bucks second hand. You probably have one laying around already.

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- GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I do, I access them on the local network and the software has a local export feature. So I regularly write the SD card to hdd and wipe the SD
  
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  - KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    yeah that’s definitely more sensible than what i had thought was going on lol. At that point i’d still probably write to the hdd directly, and use flash as a backup though. It’s also a lot more portable that way.
    
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    GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The flash cards are onboard the cameras, silly as it is. So it’s super convenient, provided they don’t all corrupt at once.
    
    All cameras are well out of reach
    
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dog_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Their cloud system sucks, so I’m glad you don’t have yours connected to it.

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