Edit: ideally wifi cameras that I can solar power.

Looking to replace my Arlo cameras with something self-hostable. Arlo lets you store on a USB stick, but there’s no way to get out from under their cloud, which gets more expensive all the time.

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    1 year 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.

    https://nbailey.ca/post/nvr/

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      1 year 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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        1 year 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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    9 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

    Edit: I’m hesitant to recomment OpenIPC now since the main streamer is closed source. Thingino is fully open and developed by some of the devs who didn’t agree with the closed source portion