Home security cameras

Privacy Questions
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Hello guys hope everyone is doing fine I just have a quick question what is the best open source home security cameras ? I’ve been looking around and can’t seem to find anything

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Just get any PoE IP cameras and put them on their own isolated VLAN.
Frigate is great, they also have some recommendations: Recommended hardware | Frigate

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Reolink pairs with Home Assistant nicely and works perfectly fine while being offline. But fully offline VLANs for IoT devices are crucial.

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Thank you for the info I’ll do some research on this have a great day

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Thank you for the reply I’ll do some research on this have a great day

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I like synology.

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I believe @jonah just did a video for Techlore on the Synology cameras. Privacy-Friendly Security Cameras...Synology Did It! - Invidious
https://youtu.be/a05my9OegME

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The C2 Cloud cameras in that video are also the ones I mentioned here, but I haven’t actually reviewed them so I can’t really say whether they’re good or bad yet. They don’t come out until Q4 2024.

Synology Surveillance Station — the app on your NAS, not in the cloud at all — is different than the cameras I looked at in the video. Surveillance Station is generally regarded to be very good, if you already have a Synology NAS. I overall like it from what I’ve tested/seen, but I don’t really have a serious deployment with it, so take that with a grain of salt. It’s of course also not open source, and has some weird licensing pricing.

As far as open source goes, I mainly see people talk about these three NVR options (that you would pair with any IP camera), but I don’t have much experience with them myself:

https://shinobi.video/

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I personally love frigate!

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Thank you and sorry for late reply I’ll check them out

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Sorry for late reply and thank you for the info

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Hello Jonah thank you for the helpful links I’ll go check all of them out and see what’s right for me