They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

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    1 year ago

    Reading only the headline I assumed “not recommended because of the invasive Amazon tracking”, instead it was “because some owners become vigilantes”…

    I am searching also for a camera but I’m not finding it, can someone help me?

    What it must be:

    1. Not battery powered

    2. 100% offline

    3. No cloud support at all

    4. No subscription

    5. To replace the door peephole

    6. Onvif support or similar so I can use a generic NVR in my own network for recording

    7. A screen on the inside of the door so I can see who’s outside (because now the door peephole is replaced by the camera)

    Seems impossible to find

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      I just grabbef a generic IP camera, connected it over ethernet, and firewalled it so it could not make connections out to my home network or the internet. Turns out it just uses an mpeg stream for the video, so recording it is just a matter of running curl on a server. Any network camera that does not depend on a server should work fine for this type of stuff.

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        1 year ago

        i’m also thinking to just take a cheap reolink and put over the door - but it would be cooler if there was a screen inside that turns on when someone is detected outside (even by an ultra cheap PIR sensor, don’t need sophisticated AI recognition stuff)