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Looking for a relatively cheap camera system (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by marighost@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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 :)

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[–] marighost@piefed.social [S] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

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.

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If this does what it says it'll do, this is ABSOLUTELY the answer

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I mean, the one Wyze Cam v3 I have with it seems to have been working well over the last 36 hours.

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

I did a wyze cam 3 yesterday too lol.

So far so good!

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

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!

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

That's a real hero move, and I appreciate it.

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