Best camera for local WiFi security?
Does anyone know which WiFi camera is best for security? I'm a developer so I don't mind getting my hands dirty, what I want is a WiFi camera that won't ask me for a cloud service or at least for it to be optional without the camera paywalling features.
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You don't want a wifi camera, take the time to run wires to your cameras.
A thief with a wifi blocker device will render your cameras useless.
hardwired is the way!!
Genuinely curious and I’m sure hardwired is better, but are there not wifi cameras with onboard storage that will sync wirelessly when connection is restored?
I guess you run into issues if the device itself is taken/broken.
Riolink if you're willing to put some time I to setting it up correctly and want something good quality but still affordable.
If you got the money tho, I'd recommend Ubiquiti stuff. It do be good.
Ubiquiti cameras are ass for the money though.
You get better picture quality from Amcrest for 1/4 of the price if not more.
I’ve got 6 ubiquiti cams and I will never buy them again considering the image quality I get out of my $50 Amcrests.
Not to mention Ubiquiti’s doorbell cam design flaw scandal
Lorex, Reolink, and Dahua are great too
Happy with my Reolink poe cameras.
I've been looking at this as well, Reolink+Frigate is what I'm looking at deploying at some point.
I'm sure there is a better system but at the moment I'm using a Reolink doorbell using WiFi to connect to my UnRaid server which is running Frigate in a docker container. It works for me.
If you're worried about actual burglary though you should definitely hard wire your camera with ethernet. If you run ethernet with POE you only have to run one cable to it for power and data.
as everyone said, go PoE hardwired. I run ReoLink cameras connected to MotionEye in HomeAssistant running as a VM on an UnRAID server
Hikvision, Dahua or Reolink.
Wired is the best and dahua cameras are the best. There are tons of re-branded dahua cameras out there. My second fav is hikvision.
Reolink is consumer grade stuff, like ring etc made for ease of use.
Indoor or outdoor ?
Reolink or any other camera with an rtsp feed, plus frigate. I use it with another tool (home assistant) for notifications and access the live feed and recordings through that app though. Might be too much.
Wired though, I agree with others about wired over wireless. I think the risk of... Wi-Fi jamming at my house is extremely low but the risk of wireless problems is high.
i use hikvision cameras with colorvue so it does actual color image at night. very impressive image quality. you can actually read plates at night from 5+ car lengths from the camera. it just dumps footage on my nas. nothing goes to the interwebs and all features are internal.