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That’s an expensive way to build a crappy IP cam

• penagwin 7y ago
  I'd love a link to a commercial solar powered, weatherproofed, cellular IP Cam with an embedded computer that costs less then 200$ ;)
  • hutzlibu 7y ago
    And where you know(almost for sure), it has no backdoors ...
• sigstoat 7y ago
  the camera portion of this is comparable in price to the cheapest IP camera you can get out of china, and probably works better. even with the solar, it's cheaper than a nice IP camera from Axis.
  • cr0sh 7y ago
    Given what is shown, minus the solar panel part, you can create such an IP camera using a RasPi Zero W, one of the small 5 MP camera modules for the Pi, and a copy of MotionEyeOS - and do it all for under $50.00 USD. I have such a camera monitoring a part of my house. That price figure is also using Amazon prices - I'm certain you could do it even cheaper through other sources. Another option (which I posted in another comment to this) is this neat little module that I've been thinking of playing with sometime: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32964004777.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32964004777.html Even via Amazon, you can get a pair of these for around $30.00 USD. Add some cheap enclosures, and a bit of codework (there's a few projects and github repos, but nothing polished) - and those would be some cheap, but nice, IP cameras. No idea how well these (or even my RasPi system - my camera is indoors looking outside thru a window) would fair in the elements over a long period.