I don’t have yet any preferences. Cheap, easy to set up, secure. What do you use and can recommend?

  • maxgyver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    Reolink. Cheap, good enough quality, great HA integration, no internet connection needed.

    • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      can these be configured to stream TO a remote frigate server?

      Example: I’d like to install one at my parent’s house, connect it to my parent’s wifi, but have it stream to frigate, that’s hosted on my server in another city?

      • maxgyver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        i had frigate running locally and could integrate them. That said i grabbed the stream from the local network. I guess you would need some sort of local pi to forward the streams. But that is well above my pay grade ^^ sorry

        • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, I’ve already heard about such a solution, where I’d need a Pi that acts as the streaming client, which then should work with any camera.

    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I use Amcrest, mostly because the guy who makes frigate recommended them, and has affiliate links on his site. As a software developer myself, I have to say frigate (and HA) are two jewels of open source software and so I’m happy to support them however I can.

      That being said, the cameras work well and are easy to integrate with both frigate and HA. They all try to phone home at first, but stop if you tell them to (I’ve confirmed this by monitoring the traffic on my dns servers).

      I couldn’t find a privacy friendly wifi camera with a big enough battery to run continuously, so I ended up building my own with a solar panel, an inverter, and a 9ah lithium battery that sits on a fence post at the end of my driveway. It was a fun project, but I wish I could buy it.

      Another small gripe is that the PTZ cameras from Amcrest all seem to be crazy expensive or have mixed reviews, so I’ve just held off on those for now.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Thanks for the feedback, I’ll keep them on my list. I wasn’t considering the PTZ cameras just the inexpensive turrets and plan on running them PoE so it looks like those issues won’t affect me!

    • Convict45@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      I’ve owned a bunch of Foscam cameras, a sub-brand owned by Amcrest.

      Amcrest and its Foscam sub-brand seem very interested in getting access to your cameras, have less capable and less convenient software, and the cameras themselves seem less well built than Reolink.

      I bought a half a dozen V1 Wyze cams, and at least two of them have failed. I won’t touch that brand again. I also would never have used Wyze at all except for the exploit that allowed custom firmware installation for real local access and control.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I thought Reolink cameras were just rebranded Amcrest…or is it just the chips and lenses?

        I will be using them with Frigate so I’m not too worried about the janky software unless it affects how Frigate operates

  • brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I use Amcrest PoE dome cameras with frigate. Quality and price are excellent. My only complaints would be the dome cameras get dirty fast and at night the IR light from inside reflects off of the dirt and makes them useless. Frigate also seems pretty bad at detecting things in night vision mode. And yes, I’ve already made the recommended adjustments in my frigate config.