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skopje ◴[] No.45663732[source]
PoE is awesome. My custom home security system is all CCTV PoE with a gstreamer backend running on four-core fanless linux box. Way to go. Complete control. No batteries, no wares spying on me, no personal data getting scraped by big guys. (Cloud connectivity sucks because I have segmented mp4s and jogging through them hurts but I only care for events after they happen, not while they happen.)
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skulk ◴[] No.45663770[source]
Got any recommendations on what cameras to get? The market is absolutely flooded with cheap shitty cloud-connected all-in-one cameras making it hard to find good, simple products.
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mlsu ◴[] No.45664951[source]
I got a lot of 6 Axis cameras from eBay, it was around $200. I think they took them off a school or something but they were in great shape. They look great and have no spyware etc because it’s an industrial company. I recommend getting some industrial surplus because they tend not to have all the bloatware and have significantly better weatherproofing, casing, etc, even if the optics are the same as the consumer units.
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1. bobbob1921 ◴[] No.45673445[source]
This! I manage about 70 CCTV cameras, over the past 15 years. Partially as a hobby. and axis cameras are the best bar none. They are expensive, but if you don’t have a need for the latest gen axis, then eBay is your friend, along with one or two generation prior of axis current gen cams. They are just very well thought out in terms of installation, and ui/operation. Axis is among the most responsive to security issues (which mostly can be negated by controlling your cameras at the network level through vlans and firewall rules). They have a very intuitive web based UI, for example one well thought out ability is through events/rules- you can add a physical SD card into the camera and set up a rule that if the video feed is not being accessed ( set a inverse trigger for “live stream accessed”) then start recording to the on-cam SD card (i.e. your NVR has gone off-line or a network issue is stopping the feed, then you have onboard storage saving that video). That’s just one example.