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Best/most secure home security camera? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by EwikH@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I'm shopping around for a front door camera and I wanted some input as far as security goes. I want a camera from a company that stores minimal to no personal information and doesn't share user info with third parties.

I don't really want to have to pay for cloud storage but if I have to and the company has a secure cloud storage model that would be fine, preferably it'd be nice to be able to store footage on my local file server but a mix of that and the ability to rent cloud storage would not be bad either.

Thanks in advance for your input.

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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I picked up a Unifi G5 Flex and it's pretty nice. I use it with self-hosted Shinobi, which has a very nice UI for setup and management.

I have it set to only record when there's a certain percentage of change within a specific area. I store everything at the native resolution of the camera (1080p30) and it takes up maybe 150 GB for a month of retention.

If you have an Intel CPU you could easily make it smaller by transcoding into 720p or something. My shitty old server doesn't support QuickSync so I don't even attempt to transcode.