I don’t have yet any preferences. Cheap, easy to set up, secure. What do you use and can recommend?

    • @Tinkerer@lemmy.ca
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      66 months ago

      +1 they are completely local, cheap and have a tight integration with home assistant, I have 5 of their cameras.

    • adONis
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      46 months ago

      can these be configured to stream TO a remote frigate server?

      Example: I’d like to install one at my parent’s house, connect it to my parent’s wifi, but have it stream to frigate, that’s hosted on my server in another city?

      • @maxgyver@lemmy.world
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        36 months ago

        i had frigate running locally and could integrate them. That said i grabbed the stream from the local network. I guess you would need some sort of local pi to forward the streams. But that is well above my pay grade ^^ sorry

        • adONis
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          36 months ago

          Yeah, I’ve already heard about such a solution, where I’d need a Pi that acts as the streaming client, which then should work with any camera.

      • @OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        It might not be original quality, but this should be fairly straightforward with a tunnel or VPN connection to your parent’s house. You’d also lose quality in having a WiFi camera instead of wired.

    • Strit
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      06 months ago

      Reolink cameras are twice the price of the Tapo ones in my area…

      • Convict45
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        16 months ago

        And probably four times the quality. If I could go back in time and choose Reolink for every camera I have, I would. In a heartbeat.

        • Strit
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          16 months ago

          I’m pretty happy with the 2K footage on mine.

      • @ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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        16 months ago

        I’ve never used either, so I can’t speak to their actual quality, but cheaping out on cameras defeats the purpose of getting cameras if the footage is too grainy or blurry to be used for anything.

        • @Stampela@startrek.website
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          16 months ago

          The wireless Reolinks are not great. Like, nothing against the camera itself, however, the WiFi antenna must be smaller than the one in my watch. The range is truly abysmal.

          Tapo ones are perfectly fine, good quality all around, but it’s important to specify that I have experience with external, solar powered Reolinks and indoor Tapo, so it’s a bit of a different category.