Cams, anyone?

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• Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Slightly off topic and something I read from somewhere else, but make sure whatever you use can write the date & time onto the camera images, otherwise it isn’t usable for any police / insurance claims.

  I’d guess all systems do this now, but just wanted it to be on your checklist of features.

  If the camera doesn’t do it, then the storage server must.

  (And make sure the clock is sync’d to something 😉)

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For non cloud cams, someone posted here a while back about thingno firmware, takes cheap cams off the cloud. Works great on a wyze cam and was a gamechanger for me. Sttrroonngglllyyy recommend

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  • abominable_panda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Came here to suggest this. Glad its getting the exposure it deserves

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had never heard of this so went looking. Super useful stuff here!

    A link for anyone interested: thingino.com

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I see it supports many cameras, but you need to pull them apart and use a serial hookup to flash the firmware… but for the wyze cams and a few others you can flash them directly with an SD card.

      I liked how cheap the wyze cams were but desperately wanted to get them offline. This was my silver bullet.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh thank god. This solves my problem of no good integrated can hardware on the market that isn’t cloudified or a huge security hole.

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    • Auli@twit.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @empireOfLove2 @Windex007 Just keep them off the network. There is no reason for a security camera to have LAN access.

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  • swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    New to me & bookmarked. I am sure I have some crap lying around that this would work with.

    Thank you!

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• paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Frigate + Reolink (or actually Frigate-approved cams)

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  • Kirk@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Amcrest seems to be the cheapest and I have good experience with them and Frigate

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    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Used them before, but you have to be kinda careful with Amcrest, every once in awhile they throw one out that is especially shitty to self host.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reolink cameras are self-hosted. You don’t have to have an account in their app, and nothing is synced to the cloud. It’s all stored locally. They’re expensive cameras by comparison, but a. they’re really high quality, and b. they’re not subsidized by subscription fees.

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  • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Be careful with reolink, their P2P solution is pretty suspicious. No body really knows how it works and who it shares the data with.

    You can disable those features, but it will stop reolink app from working. For the app to work, it needs to push this information to their cloud storage.

    Better to selfhost frigate and just rtsp cameras there.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I would assume it’s based on TURN, since you don’t need to log in.

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• plateee@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is maybe controversial, but I love the Ubiquiti security stuff. Cameras (interior and exterior) doorbells, etc, it’s all great. Pricey, but you get what you pay for.

  And the data can stay local or be accessible via their services.

  I chose to go local only, grabbed their UNVR and populated it with 4x 2TB drives and it has enough space to handle 7 cameras HD history for about a month.

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  • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve experimented with ubiquiti cameras and for the most part I find them very overpriced for their quality point. They’re good cameras, but they’re not ONVIF compatible so if you want to get into their (super overpriced and limited) ecosystem you won’t be able to intermix other cameras easily.

    A good example is their doorbell camera. It’s just not good. And they don’t have more than one model, so if you want a good one you’re buying something else, that won’t work in their software, so now you’re using two systems to watch your cameras.

    I’m glad they work for you, but I don’t recommend getting into their camera ecosystem.

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• Changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I tried to use Shinobi as my PVR for a while but dealt with a lot of usability and stability issues. Switching to Frigate has been much better. Configuration can be a bit difficult but it’s rock solid and really great. Plus the home assistant integration is top notch. I’ve had a lot of luck with Amcrest cameras and also managed to use a cheap Tapo camera within my setup.

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• AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a Reolink PoE camera. It works fine. As far as I can tell, it only uses the internet to check for updates and set the time, but I have it blocked off anyway. Home Assistant was actually causing it to check for updates, too, so that got disabled.
  I don’t record, so I can’t help you there.
  I will say that is a pain to get Home Assistant to display real-time video instead of a slide show.

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  • spiffpitt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you managed to get it in realtime though? may i ask how?

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    • JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eh? Shouldn’t it be real time already?

      this is my configuration:

        - camera_view: live
          type: picture-glance
          entities: []
          camera_image: camera.cam_profile000_mainstream
          tap_action:
            action: none
      

      I am using ONVIF integration for the camera

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    • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I haven’t, that’s the problem. It seems like it’s possible, but I’ve given up trying for the moment.

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  • breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s weird i have some reolink cameras and they display fine through home assistant

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can we pin one of these posts? The same thing gets asked even few days and the answers don’t change nearly that frequently

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  • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Sigh, unfortunately not.

    You should see the Linux community asking about which distro to use - now that’s where a pinned post is needed…

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I’m fine with repeating “I use Arch btw”

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Frigate is popular.

  I used to use ZoneMinder, it worked well, but you must be very familiar with onvif, primary/secondary channels, and key frames for it to work well.

  I only switched to frigate because of the person/animal detection. It’s ok, but it does need some polish in a few areas like event retention, and it could stand some more approachable documentation.

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  • helix@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Used Zoneminder for a 20 camera store CCTV setup and can confirm, it’s complicated but powerful. I wouldn’t use it for less than 4 cams.

    The alternative I’d use personally is motion-project.github.io though. Doesn’t make much difference.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just checked out frigate, and I see it crutches on docker. Anything docker-free?0

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  • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Zoneminder is an option.

    It’s been around since before containers were a thing, so fairly stable.

    Not used it myself, but when I get around to needing cameras (I’m in a small house in a low crime area), then thats what I’m planning to use.

    It has (had?) an integration in MythTv too, so I can see who’s a the door whilst watching TV at the same time.

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• black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When I needed this I reached for whatever generic rtmp cameras were well rated. Blocked them from external access at the firewall level and used Zoneminder and some custom scripts to monitor.

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• swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For hardware, anything that can provide a local rtsp stream is a good place to start. I run cheap and cheerful mix of tapo, unbranded and homebrew esp32 cams. Offload the motion/object detection and alerts to something that can pull in the feeds, and isolate the cams to local network only.

  WiFi usually ok, but at least hardwire the power to save future grief.

  Using frigate to manage mine, which is running under Homeassistant - another project worth looking up.

  A few images, featuring Freddie the visitor:

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tell me more about your homebrew esp32 cams, please!

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    • swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Ok so the combination is:

      • This camera board
      • This external antenna
      • This project
      • A shell I designed myself in SketchUp (skp download). Note that’s not the final version, as I lost some design files.

      And the finished item:

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      All assembled, they will give a decent enough feed back to frigate for the basics, just don’t expect miracles in the resolution or framerate departments. 3fps does fine for my use case of tracking critters.

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    • swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gladly. I’ll collate a few bits later - time for work.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dahua and Hikvision have great cameras but of course you shouldn’t trust them. Block them at the firewall. I bought mine a few years ago and preferred Hikvision for its better built in webserver for initial configuration.

  On the hosting side you run Frigate, Zoneminder or BlueIris (Windows) to control the cameras and record their streams.

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  • Auli@twit.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @Blue_Morpho @jabeez Huh I preferred Dahau. Thought the interface was nicer and the cameras low light looked way better.

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• yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Any cam with an rtsp stream is fine. Host frigate on your server point it to the cams you can get audio and video and object detection pretty easily. I also recommend taking an extra step and creating a firewall rule to block the cams’ inbound/outbound internet traffic.

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