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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

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Wifi Camera security with storage in local server possibility? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by 9acca9@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Im looking for a Wifi camera with the possibility to record on a server.

I buy a generic camera that when i make a nmap i get:

Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.172
Host is up (0.024s latency).
Not shown: 999 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT     STATE SERVICE
6668/tcp open  irc
MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (Shenzhen iComm Semiconductor)

And this camera have just "cloud storage"... and with "cloud" they mean "pay for it". So, i want to know if there is a local server that maybe can get this camera, or if you can tell me for other camera that i can buy and i could connect to a home server (acting as cloudstorage)

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[–] 13AccentVA@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I've currently got 2 solutions in use. (I focused heavily on keeping the price as low as I could for both)

4 wireless cameras on a cheap NVR I got from Amazon. It works but I keep it in it's own VLAN meaning it doesn't back up to anything.

2 home built using a RPi 0w, camera, and NAS. The RPIs are running open media vault and use the NAS for storage.

Two notes for this setup, I also have a script scheduled weekly on my PC that deletes any footage more than a month old from the NAS, and I'd recommended against using the local storage on the pi as along with degrading the SD card faster, if the storage fills completely then the camera quietly locks up and stops recording all together.