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Standalone cameras (lemmy.world)
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I'm looking at dusting off my motion setup. It was an old setup to monitor what my pets are doing in the house with a webcam.

However, I need cameras outside to monitor my gardens and the webcams are not really usefull for that (for one, the're not waterproof and USB cams)

I try to look for stand alone cameras, but can't find a good test of them. (probably user error) Any tips on good, safe, cameras for outside? (pref poe, wifi when it can't be avoided, not battery powered)

Thanks in advance

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[–] 31 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Thingino makes sure your cameras are yours and no one elses, they have a list of cameras that work with it:
https://thingino.com/

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

    This seems awesome. I have a couple Eufy cameras I don't use anymore due to their cloud connection and Eufy's past security incidents. At least one of my models appears to be supported. Those flashing instructions seem rather complex though. If you have any pointers, let me know. I'm still going to give it a shot later. Thanks for sharing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Didn't know this existed. Gives the flexibility to choose between different Hardware Vendors.

    But do you have any experience on how easy it is to flash this to the Hardware and how good it works?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I flashed 3 Wyze cam 3s in like 15 minutes. I have 2 of them running 24/7 at the moment. They've been running for about a year now I think?

    Reliability is generally good, I think I had to restart one of them once. One minor issue I found was it sometimes sucks at detecting low light. Not sure if its just an issue on the wyze cam.

    Basically it will be pitch black and randomly decide to switch from night vision to non-night vision making the feed unusable for a bit.

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