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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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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Commenting so I can remember to check back for any suggestions. I've basically run into this problem:

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago

Look into Wyze cameras and Thingino firmware. I just found out about the latter, went ahead and bought a Wyze Cam v3 and flashed it with Thingino. Works well in HA. Haven't started on Frigate yet, but that's in the works now, too.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If another kind soul comes through with a good suggestion, I'll try to remember to tag you! There's got to be something out there.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Anything that can be flashed with Thingino firmware. Give that a shot.

I have no ties to this project - I just think it's really cool.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If this does what it says it'll do, this is ABSOLUTELY the answer

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, the one Wyze Cam v3 I have with it seems to have been working well over the last 36 hours.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I did a wyze cam 3 yesterday too lol.

So far so good!

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 6 days ago

Wow that's an awesome project! Thanks for sharing, now I can get a camera that's inexpensive, has everything I want and doesn't require malware to be installed on my phone/network!

That's a real hero move, and I appreciate it.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, there was supposed to be the new PineCam from Pine64, but apparently it was never released?

I think I'm just gonna get some Pi Zeros + cameras and just roll my own. Probably use the NoIR versions and some cheap IR illuminators. Feed those into Zoneminder.

Bonus points if I can find some old CCTV cameras, gut them, and fit the pi camera to those optics.