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Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras (www.wired.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

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[–] 57 points 3 years ago (15 children)

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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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    I just grabbef a generic IP camera, connected it over ethernet, and firewalled it so it could not make connections out to my home network or the internet. Turns out it just uses an mpeg stream for the video, so recording it is just a matter of running curl on a server. Any network camera that does not depend on a server should work fine for this type of stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, elit does take some messing around to get working though, so I wouldn't recommend unless you want to spend a bit messing around with configuring a server. (Make sure to back up the pi's SD card so if it fails you can easily replace it)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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