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linux based video recording
(lemmy.world)
ZoneMinder?
Or Frigate
I uploaded the picture.. yet it didn't show on my end
Amcrest cameras have a RTSP stream open by default. If you know the camera’s IP address you can just open the stream in a media player, like VLC, and set it to save the stream to disk.
Also, you could probably save the stream without viewing using ffmpeg.
Seems like it has a built in webserver for remote viewing. Does it have a slot for an SD Card?
The simplest solution would be to block the cameras internet access in your router/firewall and live stream through a browser while recording detected motion to an SD Card.
Link to the camera:
https://amcrest.com/qcam-ip2m822e-2mp-poe-weatherproof-ip66-bullet-ip-camera.html
Probably going to be Frigate. It's meant for NVR, and has easy time management tools for review, plus you can setup an easy monitor stream with RTSP or ON IF to watch live from elsewhere.
You could also engage it's inference for doing simple identification or animals and objects to tag clips where something happens in a Region of Interest.
I'm using two pi-zero-w to monitor our garage and boiler-room, works like a charm, you can even install a lightweight webserver like lighttpd and setup a livestream
I see the camera has PoE, will you use that and connect to the camera over a local network? If so you could just record the stream with ffmpeg
Yeah I have a couple of them and 2 poe injectors so I figured I'd try that way
Motion is also really useful for capturing security camera footage. It's more specialised for this task than ffmpeg so could work here
If possible, I want to run it on my jellyfin/DNS server (piefed)
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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