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Security camera recommendations? (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Previously asked 2 years ago.

What are folks using these days? Reolink seemed to be a popular choice 2 years ago. I'll start looking here.

I've been using Eufy (yeah, I know). Apparently, Eufy has a way to transfer clips to a NAS via RTSP. However, I've been seeing users complain that the transferred clips end up with degraded quality. Not great. De-great-ed.

My home server has plenty of space on it, so it would be cool if I could save clips (or all the video footage?) directly to my ZFS pool.

What do folks' security camera setup look like?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless it changed recently if you already have 3rd party cameras, it's all but useless for any of those features. I am using Blue Iris/amcrest cameras and when I upgraded to a UDMP I was excited to try it with the new 3rd party camera support, but I can't really do anything but record. No detection stuff. Ended up only adding one camera and giving up.

And their cameras, are damn expensive. I have 6 cameras outside covering most of my house. Entireity, swapping over to unifi ones is not in the budget.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I suppose there's always a catch with them opening up for 3rd party support.

    I was keen to move to Unifi primarily for a doorbell. I had a Hikvision which was very temperamental, and I didn't want a cloud based one like Ring or Nest, so believe it or not, most of my decision was made around a stupid doorbell.

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