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Edit: ideally wifi cameras that I can solar power.

Looking to replace my Arlo cameras with something self-hostable. Arlo lets you store on a USB stick, but there's no way to get out from under their cloud, which gets more expensive all the time.

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[โ€“] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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AP WiFi Access Point
IP Internet Protocol
IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PoE Power over Ethernet
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN Virtual Private Network

10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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[โ€“] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Missed at least two of the more important ones:

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RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol
ONVIF Open Network Video Interface Forum

Still a pretty cool bit idea though. Keep at it!