Hello selfhosters!
I have what is hopefully a simple ask. I am looking for some outdoor cameras for my sister, who is not at all tech savvy. I am, to an extent, and I’d like to get her set up with a small, remotely-manageable system to view and record the outside of her home. I’d wager there’s a plethora of selfhost software that can be run on a number of systems (I’m thinking something cheap like a Raspberry Pi), to connect to an external HDD for camera storage.
I’m also looking for camera suggestions for this purpose. Wi-Fi cameras are ideal, since we don’t have the means to run ethernet for PoE.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you all have a wonderful week :)
Commenting so I can remember to check back for any suggestions. I’ve basically run into this problem:
If another kind soul comes through with a good suggestion, I’ll try to remember to tag you! There’s got to be something out there.
That’s a real hero move, and I appreciate it.
Anything that can be flashed with Thingino firmware. Give that a shot.
I have no ties to this project - I just think it’s really cool.
If this does what it says it’ll do, this is ABSOLUTELY the answer
I mean, the one Wyze Cam v3 I have with it seems to have been working well over the last 36 hours.
Wow that’s an awesome project! Thanks for sharing, now I can get a camera that’s inexpensive, has everything I want and doesn’t require malware to be installed on my phone/network!
Well, there was supposed to be the new PineCam from Pine64, but apparently it was never released?
I think I’m just gonna get some Pi Zeros + cameras and just roll my own. Probably use the NoIR versions and some cheap IR illuminators. Feed those into Zoneminder.
Bonus points if I can find some old CCTV cameras, gut them, and fit the pi camera to those optics.
Look into Wyze cameras and Thingino firmware. I just found out about the latter, went ahead and bought a Wyze Cam v3 and flashed it with Thingino. Works well in HA. Haven’t started on Frigate yet, but that’s in the works now, too.