Anyone know of self-hostable security cameras?

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most cameras are self hosted but they are not marked to consumers because they require running cables to them either for power and/or data.

  Reolink camera with onvif so support can be connected to Frigate or Shinobi.

  Hikvison and Dahua are common Chinese brands that have lots of options across lots of prices points but are treated as insecure or hostile iot devices required closed networks.

  Costco often has camera and NVR packages that are passable.

  Whenever possible make sure any camera you get is onvif so you can use it with any NVR or software.

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  • TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    HIkvision is great. Good value for money. Just do not use the app to configure them, use web gui. And yes, they need to be isolated from rest of network and the internet ( as pretty much any cameras).

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• nbailey@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can use pretty much any camera with ZoneMinder as long as it supports ONVIF or RTSP and has the right connectivity and power inputs for you. I did something similar with some cheap TP-link cameras with pretty good results. With motion activated recording, I have just shy of 12 month of recordings stored on a 500G SSD.

  nbailey.ca/post/nvr/

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  • dev67@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How did you get 12 months onto just 500 Gb? I only have a couple weeks worth on a 1 Tb ☹️ I’m using wyze cams w/ agent i-spy. I assume I need to upgrade my compression skills here.

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    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Motion activated recordings.

      Continuouse, even h265 recordings, can only 2 weeks or so per terabyte.

      Motion activated means he is probably recording 30 minutes per day vs 24 hours.

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  IP	Internet Protocol
  NAS	Network-Attached Storage
  Unifi	Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Missed at least two of the more important ones:

    Fewer Letters	More Letter
    RTSP	Real Time Streaming Protocol
    ONVIF	Open Network Video Interface Forum

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use Reolink cams with BlueIris software. None of it has access to the internet. Works fine.

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  • nottelling@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reolink looks like a solid answer, thanks.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do additional research on the models you’re interested in. Unfortunately they don’t all play nice with 3rd party software but the ones that use open standards are good bang for the buck.

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  • canthidium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can vouch for this. Been using a bunch of Reolink cameras with BI for years. Be careful with Reolink, though. Some cameras work fine and some don’t at all, unless you use some middleman software, which is still hit or miss. Ran into this recently with a camera I got for my garage.

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    • AimlessNameless@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The wireless wifi Reolink cameras won’t work the way OP wants, only the poe ones have rtsp

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  • deur@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also use this exact setup, works great!

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• Prizephitah@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  UniFi

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I personally recommend against UniFi for security now. Their software just isn’t great anymore, and you can’t really “selfhost” the protect. You have to have one of their proprietary boxes hosting the protect software. I’m not 100% against that - but I was not aware of that when I bought the first camera and had to buy the box.

    As for the software, it’s honestly just buggy and laggy. I’m in their system now, but if I could do it all again I’d look at others.

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    • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You have to have one of their proprietary boxes hosting the protect software

      This was the biggest bummer for me that convinced me not to get into the Unify ecosystem. I already have a robust storage solution at home, I just want to point the cameras to a docker container running on my host with all the storage.

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    • nottelling@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m somewhat stuck on Unifi for wifi APs and Routers, because all the other consumer-grade devices can’t handle the number of small IoT devices I’ve got. Netgear and Asus just lose connections with ESP devices and refuse to let them connect after about a dozen. The commercial grade stuff, in addition to being too expensive, is all rack mounted, high power draw and noisy af.

      Aside from the fact that my stuff seems stable on the Ubiquiti hardware, I hate the products. The interface is terrible, Unifi insists on hiding the advanced networking behind a halfass gui, the SSH console lacks half the features of even that terrible gui, and every time i try to create a new routed network, the wifi devices stop connecting.

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  • randombullet@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, their software is so infuriating to work with. Even when an SSD it falls to load video clips. Often I have to restart unifi protect on the console or even ssh into it to do and apt update/upgrade to get it working again.

    Self hosted might be a little better, but I’m not holding my breath.

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• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been running demo.scrypted.app for a few months. It’s pretty slick.

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  • halagascan@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    more info would be nice

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    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      • www.scrypted.app
      • docs.scrypted.app
      • developer.scrypted.app
      • github.com/koush/scrypted

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  • falcon15500@lemmy.nine-hells.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it looks pretty slick but not so much slicker than Frigate that I will pay to be in the beta. :)

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• chasingtheflow@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would review docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware

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• abominable_panda@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Many selfhosted NVRs have been suggested. Personally ive tried:

  iSpy

  Frigate

  Zoneminder

  Shinobi

  Ended up settling on zoneminder at this stage.

  For cameras themselves i just want to point out the OpenIPC project - opensource firmware if youre technically inclined

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  • Feliberto@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Openipc looks interesting. Just did a quick search and it’s kind of difficult to find a camera that specifies it’s chip.

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    • smoof@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I'm willing to try it if I knew which cameras are supported, not just what chip.

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• GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Frigate + reolink is a great combo.

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• TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does Ubiquiti qualify?

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  • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do but are a poor value next to most other options.

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    • dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are an excellent value next to most other otpions if youve ever actually implemented more that one solution.

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• ChiefSinner@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look for something that can do rtsp streaming. Reolink, amcrest, ect. Its all cheap Chinese cameras that almost definitely dial out to some Chinese server.

  What I do is have all cameras connected on a wireless router with no internet, use zoneminder on a Linux that is connected to my home network via Ethernet and the camera network via WiFi, and allow https into my home network from my VPN

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  • CazRaX@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do the same but with Blue Iris and Windows but yeah I keep those cheap China cams off the Internet.

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• cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the easier options is going to be Ubiquiti’s ecosystem. You’ll be tied into it, but the video data is local. You can self-host the Unifi software yourself or grab a Cloud Key G2 Plus, which is a tiny ARM box running Ubiquiti’s software. Then you buy Ubiquiti’s cameras. At least as of a couple years ago, you could not pair this with any standard camera though.

  If you want a fair bit more effort but more flexibility, Zoneminder is an option. Most Amcrest cameras stream a feed over RTSP. You just need to configure Zoneminder to stream the feed.

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  • nottelling@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I already hate Ubiquiti’s Unifi networking that I got myself stuck with. I won’t do any of their other products.

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    • dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whys that? Stability has improved the last few years, and the value cant be beat with UDM pro and even their lowest cost camera options.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can use Zoneminder with pretty much any cameras that work with Linux.

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• DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m running a trio of Reolink RLC-820A cameras, over PoE. I’m recording with Frigate on a Raspberry Pi with a Google TPU USB.

  Inferencing of detected objects is lightning fast, and reasonably accurate. I’m storing ~45 days of footage (motion detected - not 24x7 recording) on less than 2TB.

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• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s tons of articles out there on how to use old cell phones for this. Here’s one of zillions:

  airdroid.com/…/best-free-app-to-turn-old-phone-in…

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  • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would not recommend this. It’s fun to tinker with but a poor substitute for real cameras.

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    • scrchngwsl@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed, just sell the old phone and use the money to buy a proper camera.

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• NixDev@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This might not be 100% what you’re looking for but I am running Reolink cameras and a Qnap NAS with QVR PRO. The reolink cameras are accessible through IP and some protocol I can’t remember right now. So you might be able to get them to work with your setup

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  • flying_monkies@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using zone minder with reolink cameras. I've been happy with it so far.

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• WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you mean “self-hosted security camera” exactly? Open source camera? DIY camera?

  Or are you looking for self-hosted NVR software? If so, many people already gave you suggestions. My recommendation - don’t focus on ZoneMinder. It’s ugly software. Instead, use Shinobi for more classic software or Frigate with Google TPU accelerator. Both lightweight enough.

  Myself I have a mix of HikVision and Dahua, recorded/analyzed by Frugate. Everything works like a charm…

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  • nottelling@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had no real idea how to phrase it, but all these posts have helped. What I was actually focused on when I posted was mainly hardware that can do what the Arlo cameras do:

    • Wifi + battery/solar my house is old and hardwires are a pain in the ass.
    • High def, preferably 4k, but 1080 is ok.
    • Night vision, color or not doesn’t matter
    • Motion-activated, and preferably some way to filter out and not trigger on things like passing traffic cars.
    • As small a form-factor as possible.

    The Reolink hardware mentioned below seems to fit the bill hardware-wise.

    I hadn’t even really considered the software, as I don’t need a lot of features. All I need is to use motion-activated capture to stream to some local storage, and an ability to view a live-stream when I want one. But it looks like there’s a lot of options I need to consider.

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    • WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For NVR - it looks like you are after Frigate with object detection.

      For cameras - as long as it has RTSP support, then you should be fine. Doesn’t really matter of what kind of brand it is. You can always block internet access for a camera in your router.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re looking for a self-hosted NVR (Network Video Recorder). The best I’ve found and use in a number of customer’s is Blue Iris, and it’ll work with any ONVIF-enabled cameras, but it costs 100/yr and only runs on a windows machine. I have desperately tried open-source NVRs that will work on Linux but none of them are even in the same universe as Blue Iris for functionality and ease of use.

      Wireless cameras are generally terrible so if you can hardwire them in any way, I would go with that. People have had fairly good luck with Wyse cameras for wireless, I can’t speak to it. See the Selfhosted Podcast for various discussions on cameras to use with NVRs, with a focus on Blue Iris.

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• S_204@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eufy? With the hub it’s all kept local I believe. Even without I think you can get a week with a 128 card.

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• zampson@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure about wifi cameras, I have a mix of Trendnet and Hikivision POE. For the software I use Blue Iris. Where I have a need for cameras I have only a Windows server and I have found this software to be the best for me.

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• fidelacchius@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have the reolink doorbell which I really like. You can pay for cloud storage, use an SD card or store it on a local server. I believe they also have WiFi Solar cameras for outside as well

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