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Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras
(www.wired.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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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:
Not battery powered
100% offline
No cloud support at all
No subscription
To replace the door peephole
Onvif support or similar so I can use a generic NVR in my own network for recording
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
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.
Could I do this with an RPi 4 B 4GB, I wonder? I’m just About to have mine arrive and I would love to have a couple CCTV cameras in my place.
Yes, elit does take some messing around to get working though, so I wouldn't recommend unless you want to spend a bit messing around with configuring a server. (Make sure to back up the pi's SD card so if it fails you can easily replace it)
Oooo thanks for reminding me to back up my PiHole too!