I find that I need a security camera for my back yard. Do you folks recommend any particular makes & models? It should avoid the cloud but record locally. I’m somewhat handy with Linux and a RaspberryPi, if that helps.
Thanks!
Check out ReoLink cameras; you can set them up and use them fully locally.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have a hard time trusting a company that appears to try to hide its country of origin. And I’m not interested in anything made by a Chinese company.
Been looking for one myself & I’ve been reading pretty good things about amcrest cams. Still need to do a bit of research before I make any purchases, but I’m leaning towards amcrest bc seems to check most of my boxes for privacy reasons.
Amcrest is a new one for me. Doing more research, but thanks for the suggestion.
I’ve been using a TAPO C200, it just required the initial setup to be connected to the internet to configure via de app, afterwards I blocked the internet traffic at router level, the feed is processed through https://frigate.video/ which I selfhost in a mini PC, not sure how well it’ll perform on a PI.
Tapo looks promising. If Frigate is too much for the Pi, I have a couple of retired PCs that could be recommissioned. Thanks for the suggestion.
Does that mean you have to allow internet for it again if you want to reconfigure it?
It depends what you need to configure.
I’m using this library to move around the camera https://github.com/JurajNyiri/pytapo
For anything else, AFAIK, yeah, you’d need to re-enable internet access.