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Low power security camera (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any low power security cameras that would recommend with night vision and decent quality? Ideally non-smart without a cloud option as I would like to connect it directly to an offline server with a cable or wifi (although not having a wifi might be better)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

It's been a minute since I was researching this, but from what I remember, Reolink showed up the most for me.

If you can get your hands on older Ubiquiti camera's, G1 and G2 I believe, you can install their NVR software on any server.

Or you could always go the route of using a Raspberry Pi and basically making it from scratch, I know pishop has several camera modules and cases with different features, and if you were fine using WiFi, a Pi Zero would be enough to make it work.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

One thing with Reolink, for anyone seeing this, just be sure to get one of the hardwired (for power) cameras. I have a wired Reolink doorbell (which is quite nice) and a solar+battery powered Argus which is practically useless other than as a deterrent. The battery powered devices don't integrate well, no video streams, and have very weak object detection.

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