What are the most solid, user friendly foss options? Open to better camera suggestions as well. I do not want a Nest sub, or similar.
Reolink + frigate
Reolink for better cams.
I second Reolink. Their hardware is good. I’ve had mine outside for over 10 years and they work great. Still get updates.
What are the updates? I would be looking to never online them.
Whatever you do, don’t buy Amcrest. Long story ending in people talking to me through the camera’s speaker.
Holy shit that’s terrifying.
I’ve heard stories of women breastfeeding and the camera talking to her and panning and tilting on its own to frame her up. Don’t touch their products with a ten foot pole and a VPN and faraday cage!
Hence wanting some FOSS to slap on a Linux laptop to record on a loop without any lack of privacy BS.
Really? Most recommendations I see for cameras suggest amcrest and reolink. Could you explain what happened?
I don’t feel like doxxing myself but Amcrest cameras have MASSIVE backdoors that are wide open and are constantly exploited.
I went down the route of twinio on their supported cameras. Mostly wyze cams. Then used frigate on Unraid.