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• You Can Set Up a Home Security Camera System Without Using the Cloud

  That article seemed to be mistly about hand-wavy workarounds for subscription-based services. I presume the author hasn't heard of the well-established, Open Source Zoneminder project, which has excellent camera and data management functionality in a self-hostable Linux environment. https://zoneminder.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 18 hours ago

• Security cams

  Frigate https://frigate.video/ and ZoneMinder https://zoneminder.com/ come to mind. Blue Iris https://blueirissoftware.com/ is not open source but is what I prefer to use for my PoE systems ($80/yr). Source: 6 months ago

• Odroid C1 USB to IP for USB Camera

  I think the simplest way is to set up Motion in the Odroids, and set up a Zoneminder server to manage the streams, record to disk, provide a web interface, etc. Source: 8 months ago

• Child Pornography on Sale from Hacked Hikvision “Baby Monitor” Cameras

  If the camera is ONVIF compatible, and most Hikvision are, it should work with Zoneminder and its mobile Open Source app zmninja. As for the cloud, if you have a public (not necessarily static) IP and your carrier doesn't filter incoming connections, you can use a dynamic DNS such as DuckDNS. It is however always advisable to put any camera behind a firewall, so that whatever it could happen (compromised or not,... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• How do you balance home security with privacy?

  Myself, I use Zoneminder, but I'm aware that is not a viable answer for most. What do you recommend? Source: 10 months ago

• Ring Doorbells are basically spyware

  I use ZoneMinder for my cameras and it integrates into HA without much hasstle, you can't point and click like many of the other integrations but the config isn't difficult. Source: 10 months ago

• Did BI get hacked or did it just go down?

  I'd have to circle back and look again because it's been a few years. I was able to get Zoneminder to do 95% of what I wanted even if it felt a bit clunky. Shinobi was an up-and-comer last time I was looking around, but I remember having some frustrations and decided to stick with BI. Source: 10 months ago

• Kami home camera app suddenly started displaying ads in the app

  This a hundred times. ONVIF cameras plus Zoneminder can make a great video security system, totally ad and spyware free thanks to 100% open source software. https://zoneminder.com/ A firewall is however needed, since the cameras firmware can't be audited, therefore one should assume the worst. Just allow secure connections from trusted sources outside only and block any access from the IP cameras subnet to... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• IP Camera to NAS

  I use these cameras: https://www.ebay.com/itm/165872590539 and ZoneMinder: https://zoneminder.com/. IMO ZoneMinder can be a bit difficult to configure and I have thought about trying Blue Iris: but never seem to get around to it, mostly because I prefer Linux. I have the cameras on their own VLAN, and ZoneMinder on a VM with two NICs, one in the camera VLAN and the other in my main LAN for writing to the NAS and... Source: 11 months ago

• Ask HN: DIY baby cams/monitor(s) with privacy?

  Hey HN! We're expecting soon, and I'm wondering what the latest advice is for setting up a multi-camera system is. I'd like it to be secure (cameras should be dumb), always-on, so powered by USB, some kind of standard protocol (e.g. RTSP), good quality/dynamic range (doesnt need to be 1080p, even 720p is fine). General plan is to have a 1-3 VLANed cameras, preferably with safe/integrated auto-IR mode when dark and... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Need a robust RTSP viewer for multi-user office

  Not necessarily a recommendation, but what about zoneminder https://zoneminder.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Daily General Discussion - April 25, 2023

  One of the most popular open-source self-hosted CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) services is ZoneMinder https://zoneminder.com/. It's a comprehensive video surveillance solution that supports IP, USB, and analog cameras. It provides functionalities like motion detection, live streaming, and event notifications. Source: about 1 year ago

• Update: Neighbor was petty on property limits...

  Just buy your own standalone cameras and hook them up to a computer—no fees necessary. ZoneMinder with a few Reolink RLC-520 cameras wasn't too difficult for me to set up. Source: about 1 year ago

• The privacy loophole in your doorbell

  Not sure if I'll be setting up CCTV at the new home this year or later, but for sure it'll be ZoneMinder based and everything, especially cameras, will be behind their physical subnet. See: https://zoneminder.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Eufy 2k pro camera shroud for when the baby isn't in the crib in our room.

  ZoneMinder is also a good recommendation if you want something that works with any camera and is not tied to another automation system like HomeAssistant (although it can be integrated into it): https://zoneminder.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Do you use your NAS for home automated security cameras? Or would that be a separate system?

  It's totally a thing, I also used my Synology device to do this, but it has a limit of two cameras (you can licence more though) so I switched to a dedicated PC running ZoneMinder ( https://zoneminder.com/ ). Source: about 1 year ago

• Do you all park in neighborhoods?

  Anecdote: when I owned a home I got "volunteered" to work with PD in my neighborhood watch. I read and distributed the blotters, installed a motion-detecting security cam system and vox-recorded the scanner traffic for four years. Vanfolk camping overnight in residential streets were zero percent of the crimes I witnessed, heard, or read about while in that role. Many Karens called in (especially if the... Source: over 1 year ago

• Linux distro for CCTV server and NAS

  Debian is usually what people go for when making a linux server, the cctv recorder software u use is windows only but I may have found an alternative https://zoneminder.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Most used selfhosted services in 2022?

  Zoneminder (https://zoneminder.com/) and zmninja (https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zmNinja) for security camera monitoring/recording/viewing. Listens on vpn/mesh for secure, private access. Source: over 1 year ago

• Yard wildlife camera

  Zoneminder is free and open source, works fantastic. https://zoneminder.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• America's Ring doorbell camera obsession highlights the scourge of mass surveillance. Why plastering cheap, internet-connected surveillance cameras on everything we own isn't fun or funny — and makes everyone less safe.

  PS. As I was writing this I took a quick look to see if I could find anything and found this, Zoneminder. It looks like it could do what you need whether onsite or offsite. Could be worth looking at. Source: over 1 year ago