They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

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    Reading only the headline I assumed “not recommended because of the invasive Amazon tracking”, instead it was “because some owners become vigilantes”…

    I am searching also for a camera but I’m not finding it, can someone help me?

    What it must be:

    1. Not battery powered

    2. 100% offline

    3. No cloud support at all

    4. No subscription

    5. To replace the door peephole

    6. Onvif support or similar so I can use a generic NVR in my own network for recording

    7. A screen on the inside of the door so I can see who’s outside (because now the door peephole is replaced by the camera)

    Seems impossible to find

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        Yeah, this. I do the same with my Reolink cameras - block all external access and I use a Frigate docker container to record footage to my storage. Bonus is I have Frigate using a Coral TPU, so it’s got some really accurate, and fast, inferencing/recognition baked in.

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        Could I do this with an RPi 4 B 4GB, I wonder? I’m just About to have mine arrive and I would love to have a couple CCTV cameras in my place.

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          As long as you are just doing capture and aren’t attempting to do anything where a re-encode of the video stream is needed then absolutely. You’ll need something other than a microSD card though to write the video too.

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            Brilliant, yah I’d just want it captured and stored on like a WD NAS HDD attached to a computer in the basement.

            Or if I ever get my ass in gear and set up my GSA…

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        i’m also thinking to just take a cheap reolink and put over the door - but it would be cooler if there was a screen inside that turns on when someone is detected outside (even by an ultra cheap PIR sensor, don’t need sophisticated AI recognition stuff)

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      I’m looking at Ubiquiti’s UniFi doorbell. It’s not cheap, nor really intended for home installation (it’s more like office grade stuff), but I already use their networking kit and run their software.

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      I heard some people on Lemmy talking about foscam for non-cloud cameras. They support onvif. Not sure if they have any in a “door monitor” form factor, though.

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      Look up the brand Intelbras they have a few residential intercoms that might work for you, I don’t know where you are , but i know they exist the US and some parts of Europe and they might be cheaper there since they’re a brazillian company (they’re the best one we have I think?)

      I have their regular câmeras and they fit all our criteria. Ours are online, buy ots by choice it’s not a system requirement. At least a few years back a few of those intercoms with screens were compatible with the nvrs i believe.