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I recently looked into getting a simple camera for the balcony: mostly for creating a time lapse of the plants that are growing there. The majority of the opti
by koyote 7y ago
I recently looked into getting a simple camera for the balcony: mostly for creating a time lapse of the plants that are growing there.
The majority of the options out there were connected to some kind of "cloud" service. I was even more surprised when I saw that a lot of popular options mandated a cloud subscription with no local storage. There is no need whatsoever to have any of this on the cloud at all. Especially with multiple hundreds of gigabytes of SD storage being so cheap these days.
In the end I went with a cheap Chinese camera which has unofficial open source firmware available (Dafang). Works like a charm.
- markkanof 7y agoIf you look into power over ethernet surveillance cameras there are lots of options that are standalone devices not associated with any specific cloud service. You then have to get some software that can receive the stream from the camera and do something with it (records, motion detection, etc.). It's not nearly as plug and play as going with something like Ring, but I also think that's expected when you are wanting something that gives the user more control.