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Privacy-Friendly Security Cameras Recs (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Hello all, I'm in the market for a privacy-respecting security doorbell camera and a wide view camera with the following features: (not all of them are required, however)

-Motion detection

-Decent sized local storage*( I saw one that came with a 2TB drive but I don't think they had a cloud storage)

-Cloud storage* (no subscriptions would be great)

I briefly looked at the r/privacy and a lot of recommendations have third parties like Amazon web services for their cloud storage which I don't feel very comfortable with. I'm looking forward to hearing about the products you guys swear by.

Thanks.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use tapo cameras that I connect through ethernet cable to an old laptop.

The camera itself never sees the internet.

I use "motion" for motion detection and recording

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    +1 for motion, it works great.

    Can you set up tapo cameras without using the app?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I saw an article before about a guy who reverse engineered the app and figured out default camera's admin password so probably possible but I think not worth the effort.

    what I did was

    1. Installing the app
    2. Create a hotspot that provides no internet.
    3. Connect to that hotspot so now my phone has no internet
    4. Open tapo app and setup the camera
    5. Allow the camera to connect to the internetless hotspot to finish the setup and enable rtsp
    6. Uninstsll the app
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ah, lame, but thanks.

    I did something similar: I have a burner-phone, that is only used for dumb apps, and a wifi point that can't reach the internet. But I was hoping to avoid having to do that dance.

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