Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?
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Hm. I’m not sure.
I know they expose rtsp or rstp or whatever protocol, so maybe you could wire something up to record off the stream.
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Well, after we put in our cameras, the cops did come knocking to investigate a shooting across the street.
As I explained to the cops: "The cameras trigger on motion, not sound, and they're only pointed at our property, not across the street. No records."
Cops left after that.
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Or HomeAssistant with Frigate
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They released their NAS product(which is just a NAS, no apps). You can archive selected footage to it or some cloud providers. You can also back up a NAS to another NAS either at the same location or remote.
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If I don't control it, I won't install it.
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Blue Iris will use pretty Much any cameras including Ubiquiti, has a mobile app for viewing and alerts, and has self hosted AI object recognition using code project. Its entirely off the grid if you want it to be.
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Same. I went with them as a “good enough” option when I needed cameras because I have had a good experience with Anker products, but they’ve slowly enshitified to the point that I’d drop them in a heartbeat if the budget was there.
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Except they can do the same thing without opted into a massive surveillance system that tracks your comings and goings and hands it over to the government to be used against you.
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Anything IoT-related is more difficult and/or expensive without the cloud. Why? Hmm…
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90% of it is idiots reporting deer/coyote sightings or falsely reporting fireworks as "gunshots?!?!" at 1:00am. If have literally been woken up by stupid Ring notifications more than by the fireworks themselves.
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Anything that requires a subscription is a no-go. Especially when it's running on my hardware.
