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:
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.
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.
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!
That’s a real hero move, and I appreciate it.
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.