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What kind of security cameras are you using?

I’m thinking about buying some but I don’t want my videos being uploaded to some third party servers.

Probably gonna use home-assistant so it should work with that.

  • @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Any camera that supports RTSP and ONVIF should work fine, it’s generally best to disable internet access on the cameras at your firewall too.

    Frigate is a great app for recording too, since it does object detection.

    • DomiEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      That’s also how I do things.

      Get the cheapest camera possible with decent quality, PoE, RTSP and ONVIF.

      Add them in a VLAN without internet access and let Frigate handle the rest.

    • animistEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      And with access disabled you can still ssh tunnel into them right?

      • @ranok@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        I have a ReoLink camera that streams to my Synology NAS that’s joined to my Tailscale network that I can access from anywhere!

      • @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Sure, that would depend on your firewall rules but you can allow incoming traffic from LAN/VPN clients easily enough.

        Personally I just access streams through frigate since that’s much faster and easier.