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

  • maxgyver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

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

  • brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 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.

    • Convict45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 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.

    • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’ve got amcrest and I integrate them into HA via mqtt using blue iris.

      But amcrest cameras need something like pihole to help block all their taking to the home base