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Hey all, just wondering if anyone has any good self-hosted security cam recs? Have plenty of space and server options, and next big thing on my list is to get rid of my battery cloud cams. They have worked well enough I guess for a few years, but really pretty slow and limited, wondering if anyone has experience with any self-hosted solutions, preferably with similar features ie: motion detection, app/webapp, maybe battery op?

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[–] plateee@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is maybe controversial, but I love the Ubiquiti security stuff. Cameras (interior and exterior) doorbells, etc, it's all great. Pricey, but you get what you pay for.

And the data can stay local or be accessible via their services.

I chose to go local only, grabbed their UNVR and populated it with 4x 2TB drives and it has enough space to handle 7 cameras HD history for about a month.

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've experimented with ubiquiti cameras and for the most part I find them very overpriced for their quality point. They're good cameras, but they're not ONVIF compatible so if you want to get into their (super overpriced and limited) ecosystem you won't be able to intermix other cameras easily.

A good example is their doorbell camera. It's just not good. And they don't have more than one model, so if you want a good one you're buying something else, that won't work in their software, so now you're using two systems to watch your cameras.

I'm glad they work for you, but I don't recommend getting into their camera ecosystem.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

UniFi Protect now has limited ONVIF support allowing various 3rd party cameras to work with Protect.

UniFi cameras can have RTSP enabled also, but it requires UniFi Protect to enable the setting.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

requires UniFi Protect to enable the setting.

Always some sort of cloud based dicking around with Ubiquiti stuff. I'm so over them.

[–] donkeyass@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

+1 for Ubiquiti. I've got a Dream Machine and 5 camera hooked up, it's great.