• Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    9 months ago

    In a way the sketchy off brand seems like a better idea in that case, at least there’s not some monolithic entity holding millions of feeds to ask for access to

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      9 months ago

      I still remember watching unsecured cameras through a site I’d feel uncomfortable posting. All five minutes of it was eye opening. As an aside, more external security cameras are connected to the internet than I had originally thought.

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      9 months ago

      But you don’t have to go sketchy off brand. You can get Ubiquiti if you want a really good system, or eufy or reolink if you don’t want to muck about with the sysadmin stuff Ubiquiti requires

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        I’ve setup a Ubiquiti system. There are two things to know:

        • For the cost of local storage, you are going to spend several years worth of subscription fees
        • The login is still controlled by Ubiquiti’s cloud system, which has had its own problems in the recent past

        Now, I think those are acceptable tradeoffs, but I think we should be clear about its limitations.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, plenty of options out there. I have a couple cheap Chinese type that aren’t plugged in on any regular basis. Neat thing is that the accounts are basically by serial number if I recall from back when I set it up, so with them off my trusted net and the data fed put through a VPN to home base they’re functionally ghost cams without a location attached.

        Plus they can record to local SD, so if the server goes offline in the future they can work like a dashcam at least.

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            9 months ago

            Yeah, but if someone is going to that much effort to track down your feed (assuming it was outdoors to start with) then you’re probably under investigation for something.