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What are good options for self hosting home security camera? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I’d like to host this on the Ubuntu Linux box in my home office and put a camera in my living room. Would like to be able to monitor the camera from an iPhone, and have it auto record on motion detection.

For external access though, I don’t have a domain name registered, and I’d rather not have one. I’d be happy to access this just using my external IP address. But I don’t know how “static” the IP address from my ISP is. (My router gets it via DHCP, but I don’t know how long those leases are, or if it re-uses the same IP when renewing.)

Edit: Also what is a good camera to use? Seems like a lot of these cams require registration with some shady service and their own app to view them. Which means that all of that is running through their hosted service, which I am trying to avoid.

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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

With amcrest cameras

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    This is what i have. Amcrest cameras tied to an Amcrest NVR which offers remote viewing, recording, and playback and then also tied into Frigate and Home Assistant also for remote viewing, event notifications, etc. I could ditch the NVR but I'd need to get a POE switch and I like having it as a backup.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Or Hikvision for very similar cameras at an actually affordable price (but you HAVE to block then from the internet and/or put them on an isolated VLAN because they send everything back home).

    Reolink also makes gold budget cameras, especially their doorbell camera.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I use Reolink. Some of the older cameras don't work as well but setting them to reboot on a schedule works pretty well.

    Frigate is not able to control the PTZ function of my RLC-823S1 but the Duo 3V is amazing. I would like to be able to track people who step onto my porch so I can get an image of their vehicle or direction of travel, but I mainly just use it to look around if I hear a noise.

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