I've personally been quite pleased with the combination of Frigate and some Amcrest POE cameras. Just make sure the cameras you are getting support RTSP though and you should be able to use them with Frigate.

Also make sure you block the cameras from reaching the public internet using your firewall, and only make them reachable from your Frigate host. Personally I use a VLAN with no internet access and enforce tagging at the switch level (i.e. don't trust the cameras to maintain their own VLAN) settings.

I remember ZoneMinder.

A full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system.

https://zoneminder.com/

Is this still a thing nowadays?

• TPLink Tapo line - I own those, requires internet / cloud access for setup, then can be viewed by any ONVIF capable software, VLC etc. You can cut their internet access and they mostly work, however timestamps and some features may break randomly;
• Reolink / AMCrest - no internet required, can be setup offline AND have a WebUI that allows full control over all functionality. Check the details of specific models, may vary a bit.

AMCrest is most likely be most offline friendly brand. Here's a testimonial from another user:

I've been using Amcrest and foscam IP cameras at my home for the past several years. I have then connected to a no internet VLAN with an NVR. The models I've been using have an ethernet port and wifi. Setup was connecting to the ethernet port and then accessing the web ui in a browser to configure settings (most importantly turning on RTSP or ONVIF feeds)

Wifi cams can be jammed. Lorex wired cameras and zoneminder with a tailscale VPN setup.

https://www.lorex.com/products/1080p-8-channel-1tb-wired-dvr-system-1?variant=42389948792982

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Dummies_Guide

https://tailscale.com/kb/1348/guides

If you don't trust tailscale you'll have to get some sort of ddns for wireguard and punch through your router

https://www.noip.com/free

https://www.wireguard.com/install/

Let me know if you want further context.

You need IP cameras and then you need a NVR server for recording, detection, and display. There are some good open source NVR programs out there with docker support. I've been wanting to try Viseron. There's also ZoneMinder and Shinobi that seem to be good.

Unfortunately most consumer cameras are cloud only. This seems to be a list of cameras you can look into: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Hardware_Compatibility_List

Your best bet is probably a chinese brand for cameras. Dahlua seems popular. There are also a bunch of PoE cameras on Aliexpress for $15-25, but I can't attest to if they're any good. Hikvision cameras seem to have been popular too, but they have been recently sanctioned by EU/US for human rights violations.

The cheapest way I found was getting some TP-Link Tapo cameras that have RTSP and Onvif, and run them under frigate.

Set them up in the app, cloud and all, then add them to your frigate, now block internet for them.

Those cameras are anywhere from 25 to around 50 dollars each. Best bang for the buck I could find.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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If you have a few old Android smartphones lying around, check Haven

Frigate has been great, I've run it for years now.

Using OpenVINO on my Intel iGPU for hardware accelerated object detection and encode/decode.

Frigate is pretty nice. If you need a simpler setup, go with Rpisurv, it's made for a Raspberry Pi, and very easy to setup and use.

Can u use home assistant?

I’m working on one called Soteria. It’s still early in development, but I’m focusing on both privacy and cloud availability.

It uses any WebDAV store to upload footage, but it’s designed to work best with my own WebDAV server Nephele. This lets it upload footage to any S3 compatible blob storage, end to end encrypted.

That way if your cameras go offline, you can watch the last footage they were able to upload.

Like I said, it’s in early development, so it’s not yet ready to use, but I’m going to be putting more work into it soon and try to get it to a place where you can use it.

It works with any V4L2 compatible camera, so laptops, webcams, and Raspberry Pi cameras should all work.

MotionEye used to be the go-to solution.

I am not sure about the current state of the project (the python 2/3 transition took a long while, there are only pre-releases using a modern python version).

https://demo.scrypted.app/ is the new kid on the block. Intuitive interface, easy to configure, not free, great system.