Hello all, I’m in the market for a privacy-respecting security doorbell camera and a wide view camera with the following features: (not all of them are required, however)
-Motion detection
-Decent sized local storage*( I saw one that came with a 2TB drive but I don’t think they had a cloud storage)
-Cloud storage* (no subscriptions would be great)
I briefly looked at the r/privacy and a lot of recommendations have third parties like Amazon web services for their cloud storage which I don’t feel very comfortable with. I’m looking forward to hearing about the products you guys swear by.
Thanks.
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I use tapo cameras that I connect through ethernet cable to an old laptop.
The camera itself never sees the internet.
I use “motion” for motion detection and recording
+1 for motion, it works great.
Can you set up tapo cameras without using the app?
I saw an article before about a guy who reverse engineered the app and figured out default camera’s admin password so probably possible but I think not worth the effort.
what I did was
Ah, lame, but thanks.
I did something similar: I have a burner-phone, that is only used for dumb apps, and a wifi point that can’t reach the internet. But I was hoping to avoid having to do that dance.