Is there a WiFi camera with an app for viewing when away from home, that has decent privacy? Plug and play would be nice. Limited time to do major setup as in 2 hours tops. Cost is fine nothing into 4 digits. Recording not neccesary. No storage is needed. Simple live viewing is all.
It always seems simplest to do this stuff with raspberry pi cameras or cheap webcams, and wired networks if feasible. Then use ffmpeg and icecast to stream through a VPS. Anything made as a consumer product is likely a shambles of crap software and security holes.
I dont have a vps though currently. I do have a webcam. No idea how to set it up to or viewing and to run 24/7. I can port forward though and am pretty network/software literate.
If you have enough upload bandwidth I guess you don’t need the vps.
How much we bandwidth we talking? I have the top package internet I can get in the area.
It’s a trade off between video quality and bandwidth but you can set the ffmpeg parameters to the bandwidth you want, more or less. If you have 2mbits up you can do ok. Motion detection can help if it’s for security and not much is happening most of the time.
10 is the low upload for me. So this might work just fine. Not sure on setup but I definitely want to get it done soon as possible. I just don’t have much time between work trips. So I need a rapid solution.
Buy a cheap wyze camera (theyre like 20 bucks) and put wz_mini_hacks on an SD card. Its very easy.
Thanks for mentioning Wyze… looks awesome.
I ended up with a shitty Arlo set that I overpaid for, and the worst part is that they no longer sell the station where you can save video to the local network, meaning I’d have to pay for a subscription
When you say “app” do you mean something that will let you view remotely through a residential NAT connection with no port forwarding or hole punching? Because 99.9% of those options are inherently not private.
If you only need the camera itself to have a local feed i.e. you already have some kind of VPN/tunnel/etc. into your home network, then something like a cheap Amcrest works fine and does not require Internet access for the camera itself.
i personally stay away of any “cloud” connection like hik connect…
By cloud connection I mean that the device connects to the provider’s cloud (vpn) and you(end user) connect to the provider to view your OWN video footage.
In terms of privacy this is disaster because the provider can view/process as in AI all your video footage in real time. Further the provider can track the shit out of us and do many other nasty things…
Hope it helps!
Raspberry pi and motioneyeOS. Getting to a state where you have a live view of the camera shouldn’t take more than an hour.
How is your Linux foo?
