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I own a couple of Arlo cameras that I bought 3 years ago. They still offer free cloud storage because I'm an old customer, so it's kind of a good deal. I only t

I own a couple of Arlo cameras that I bought 3 years ago. They still offer free cloud storage because I'm an old customer, so it's kind of a good deal. I only turn them on when I'm out of town. They have a separate router, so it's a little bit harder to hack than Ring. I wish, however, there was an affordable DIY solution to home cameras. And yet, I still couldn't find a setup that is completely open-source and/or provides me enough freedom. Has anyone started digging into this?

glaslong 7y ago
You can get an Esp32-Cam for ~$10 and plug it into Home Assistant. https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-video-streaming-web-server-camera-home-assistant/ https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-video-streaming-we...
sirmoveon 7y ago
Zoneminder is open source. A little hard to setup just right, but has a lot of potential.
- slantyyz 7y ago
  Zoneminder is pretty good, all things considered. It was my go-to NVR before I switched to the Unifi ecosystem. I guess the one drawback (when I was using it) was that it didn't record audio, and that its UI was relatively unpolished. Having said that, setting up motion sensing on the cameras in Zoneminder was far better than a lot of other solutions that I had tried.