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Looking for a relatively cheap camera system (piefed.social)

submitted 9 months ago by marighost@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello selfhosters!

I have what is hopefully a simple ask. I am looking for some outdoor cameras for my sister, who is not at all tech savvy. I am, to an extent, and I'd like to get her set up with a small, remotely-manageable system to view and record the outside of her home. I'd wager there's a plethora of selfhost software that can be run on a number of systems (I'm thinking something cheap like a Raspberry Pi), to connect to an external HDD for camera storage.

I'm also looking for camera suggestions for this purpose. Wi-Fi cameras are ideal, since we don't have the means to run ethernet for PoE.

Thank you for your time, and I hope you all have a wonderful week :)

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[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

I set up, many years ago, a RPI1 with USB cameras attached. Running the software "Motion". I put Zerotier on it and made a little web page that shows the cameras. I could have the page show any USB cameras on my network, but I think the RPI1 is too low powered for more than two.

Motion will record, or only record when motion is detected and there's a whole lot of options.

Mine is still running almost ten years later, with only a small upgrade to the cameras.