Advice for quick and easy pet can with remote access
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Reolink cameras seem to be cheap and privacy friendly. You can access them through the app and when you have time you can also use them without any proprietary stuff, as far as I know.
Quick, cheap and easy and with potential for more fiddling down the road.
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I was honestly leaning more and more toward an off the shelf solution like this. I kindof agree with you about it not being worth it to use a fiddly roll-your-own setup like this, especially with such short notice. Plug and play sounds really attractive.
How do you like the Amcrest cameras and remote monitoring solution? Do they have a good reputation for security I hope? I'm afraid I'm completely in the dark about these types of security camera companies.
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This actually sounds like it fits my priorities pretty solidly. I'll look into Reolink, thanks.
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Got it, just concerned
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Got it in that case a tracker might be a better option. Some of those are very accurate like in house accurate. Movement is all you need to see
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No, I’m summarizing their post where they make it obvious the trip is more important than the cat, thus Trip > Cat
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I use solution listed above with zerotier for android and linux as network solution for private connection. I was also doing reverse proxy for zm but later I resigned in favour of static ips and direct connections (due to unrelated to zm issues but I remember configuration not being straightforward in case of reverse proxy)
Zmninja last I heard isn't developed anymore but should still be working.
Cameras with exposed rtsp are best for this solution. Do you need wireless or wired? What cameras you have?
I am not sure if a week will be enough to troubleshoot luxurious things like access over domain (unless you have experience
) but if simplified enough it can be all set up pretty quickly.I am available for further help with this issue.
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We aren't sacrificing our cat for a vacation. She'll be well taken care of while we're away, we just wanted to set up a simple method of checking on her when the urge strikes us without bothering the cat sitters to drop what they're doing and check on her at any hour of the day or night.
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Zonemider is accessed through a web interface. Just enable HTTPS and put a lets encrypt certificate on the web server. Of course if you don't have a publicly accessible IP address, things get more complicated since you will need a VPN or some sort of tunnel.
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Amcrest ptz. The app blows, but it does the job. Bonus ptz if kitty is on the move. Otherwise stationary cameras work too obviously cheaper.
https://amcrest.com/security-cameras-for-home-and-business/ptz-cameras.html
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I'm really sorry that so many people assume you don't have a normal cat sitter and you simply desire to stalk your cat when you're not home.
(I personally check my pet camera feeds every day wherever I am, at work, at dinner with friends, at home in my bed, etc because I just love seeing my cats, and they are perfectly healthy. And if I'm on vacation, I would not be satisfied with only a few pics/videos from my sitters. Also useful for giving my sitters a heads up that the one of the cats vomited, so they can mentally prepare themselves before their daily visit.)
I have several Tapo cameras and access the rtsp streams through Frigate. I additionally have Frigate added to my Home Assistant, which is primarily useful in my use case to automatically restart Frigate when one or more cameras is unavailable for 5 minutes (sometimes my streams randomly go down for me and a restart magically fixes it... I'm not sure if this is common or just a me problem).
Home Assistant is exposed to the Internet with my domain using the cloudflare tunnel addon. I access Frigate through the Home Assistant app.
However, this took me overall a few hours every day for about a week to get setup properly. You can skip the Home Assistant step as long as you have a reliable way to restart Frigate if it crashes (or maybe your setup will be more stable than mine and it never crashes!), and access it using Tailscale VPN without a domain.
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Blue Iris and any ONVIF compatible camera. BI has a phone app for Android and iphone that you can integrate via ngrok if you have CGNAT internet.
It's a little bit of money (license is cheaper via Amcrest website) and you have to run it on Windows. I use Dockurr/Windows and run it in a KVM-based docker container on a couple sites.
Very easy to set up, has motion/shape detection built in, bulletproof, features until hell won't have it, and works with a plethora of cameras.
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Lol why are people such dicks? My vets sent pics when my dog was recovering from an operation. It's a pretty normal thing.
Anyway, if it was me I'd just set up a stream of the webcam on peertube via OBS.
