I don’t have yet any preferences. Cheap, easy to set up, secure. What do you use and can recommend?

  • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I have a few. Some try and call home (mostly the doorbell, every 10s). The others are easy to setup and run with frigate.

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      5 months ago

      I thought the doorbell camera worked great with frigate, is that not the case? I don’t have a need for cameras yet but that was on my shopping list…all cameras will be on a locked down vlan so it’s fine if it TRIES to phone home if it still works “offline”

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        5 months ago

        The doorbell does, except for no sub stream. And the only way for mine to be setup is their bs app.

        I should’ve looked better when buying, but alas. I have this one and I’m lazy.

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          5 months ago

          Are you running them with Frigate? I was thinking the lack of substream wouldn’t be a problem because the frigate server could downscale if needed (but I haven’t really looked into it yet)

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            5 months ago

            Yes, the issue I have with no sub stream (only on the doorbell) is that it uses more processing for detection on such a large resolution.

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              5 months ago

              Ahh gotcha, didn’t consider that! I’ll have to make sure my processor is up for the task. I think it will be…I’m doing 4 cameras + doorbell max and buying a NUC

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                5 months ago

                Just make sure they have substreams and get a coral (or GPU) for detection. Then a pi could probably handle it.

                I have enough processing to do it all on CPU (8 cams+doorbell) but it ramps up the power usage, so it was better to use the gpu I already had for transcoding, as detection.

                Without you can still just record and overwrite. Not that it’s extremely useful without detection and notifications.

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                  5 months ago

                  I was planning on an Intel CPU that was recommended when I was putting my list together which I was told could handle detection up on to 8 cameras without issue (so I could skip the Coral all together)