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Cams, anyone? (lemmy.today)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey all, just wondering if anyone has any good self-hosted security cam recs? Have plenty of space and server options, and next big thing on my list is to get rid of my battery cloud cams. They have worked well enough I guess for a few years, but really pretty slow and limited, wondering if anyone has experience with any self-hosted solutions, preferably with similar features ie: motion detection, app/webapp, maybe battery op?

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[–] 44 points 8 months ago (6 children)

For non cloud cams, someone posted here a while back about thingno firmware, takes cheap cams off the cloud. Works great on a wyze cam and was a gamechanger for me. Sttrroonngglllyyy recommend

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I had never heard of this so went looking. Super useful stuff here!

    A link for anyone interested: https://thingino.com/

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I see it supports many cameras, but you need to pull them apart and use a serial hookup to flash the firmware... but for the wyze cams and a few others you can flash them directly with an SD card.

    I liked how cheap the wyze cams were but desperately wanted to get them offline. This was my silver bullet.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Oh thank god. This solves my problem of no good integrated cam hardware on the market that isn't cloudified or a huge security hole.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    @empireOfLove2 @Windex007 Just keep them off the network. There is no reason for a security camera to have LAN access.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    How you gonna get the video feed off an IP cam and onto your NVR without connecting it to your network?

    You're not seriously suggesting using old analog cameras in 2025, are you?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Can confirm. Been using Wyze cameras for several years.

    I'm not using this particular firmware but I bought them specifically because I could flash them.

    Despite the firmware giving control of outbound traffic, I suggest blocking them at the network level.

    Mine run on an sd card and if someone removes the sd card and reboots it or the card gets corrupted, it would fall back to factory settings.

    I have quite a few of these and they are using very, very cheap sd cards and while none have failed, they most certainly will eventually.

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