You could go Ubiquiti. 200 for a dream router and 100 each for g4 instants. I think your recordings would go to an SD card, but Iβm not sure, I have a dream machine pro, so itβs a bit different. No monthly charges since itβs all hosted at home. Camera quality is better than all of my neighbors with rings
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Thanks. I'll check them out.
All my cameras are cheap wireless webcams with absolutely no ability to communicate outside the local network. They connect to a home built Linux system that I vetted personally.
Honestly, it's not that hard. But most folks don't know that or care. They just want to buy, plug in, and go. That the device they brought into their home and just attached to the same network that has all their photos, access to bank accounts, etc might be a spy device doesn't even occur to them.
I would love to set something like this up. Are there any online tutorials you would recommend?
Look into Amazon blink. It's what I use.
Isnt amazon a champion when it comes to spying?
With the echo sure. But in that regard what isn't spying on us? Our phones are always listening lol. As far as the cameras though they are on their own self contained system. Saved footage as far as I know doesn't even get uploaded to any of their servers. It's all just saved to your personal hub on an SD card.
I don't really like the argument "what isn't spying on us?". I'd rather avoid anything that spies on its users and doesn't respect privacy as much as possible. It's not completely unavoidable.
If youβre technical and have a spare windows license and machine sitting around, you could hook up cameras to a local Blue Iris instance and block direct internet access for whatever cameras are on your network.
BI is a pain to use though, and finding cameras that work well and support rtsp (or other supported protocols) can be tricky. I run a few wyze mini v3βs with a custom firmware in this configuration and they work great.