I tried wyze and find it silly how video clips are limited to 5 seconds unless you give them money every month. I want something where the footage is saved on a local sdcard/hdd without any cloud reliance.
Even better if I don’t have to be locked into using the manufacturer’s app, but I’m flexible on that.
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Eufy makes a good one. We installed ours 2 years ago and no issues. https://a.co/d/cloTQyZ, but they make systems with different number of cameras.
I’m looking for this also, but just to watch wildlife outside the house live. Lots of good info here.
Since nobody else has mentioned it yet, you can install a version of the firmware that enabled RTSP streaming, which you could point at a Linux server with an NVR application on it, or any consumer/commercial NVR with RTSP streaming enabled
https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze-Cam-RTSP
I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but Lorex has options for wired and wireless cameras that store footage on the camera itself via sd card, or to a local NVR.
Eufy
https://thingino.com/
I tried a few, I ended up with a Reolink… great quality image, records to an ftp folder on my nas. Though some sort of magic, I can access the camera when I am away from home via the app
I have multiple Reolink cameras at this point and just have them recording to a SD card and blocked from the internet.
They have local ML models for human, animal and vehicle detection, so something like Frigate isn’t strictly necessary, though I haven’t bothered setting them up with Home Assistant yet and mainly use them with the Reolink app and VLC with RTSP. Sometimes, I unblock them from the internet temporarily if I’m going to need to access them remotely.
As others advice, frigate is great. You can set this up under home assistant, which is a smart home open source OS/software and even if you have no plan of doing smart home, it is very handy as you can easily create automation which can send you notification with pics, will trigger an alarm, turn on lights… If you don’t already have device powerful enough to run frigate, I would advise to look for a mini pc with n100 or n150 processors, they are not very expensive (around 150€) and don’t consume much electricity (close to raspberry pi 5 while being more powerful).
And add some Thingino liberated camera’s to it!
Had to search as I never heard about thingino, seems helpful for a few cameras. Alternatively blocking internet access to camera would work just as good
Agreed, a lot of camera’s need weird proprietary apps (or cloud connections) to be set up though (or function fully, even offline), thats why I would recommend this. If yours doesnt: great!
Wyze cameras offer sd storage as well. Check your camera it should have it already
Safemo is a wireless camera system that saves files locally to the hub, and even allows you to upgrade the drive for more storage. Cameras can be battery powered only, or use a solar panel for continual recharging or the battery. The only flaw is the flaw with any wireless camera, that there is a delay from activity recognition to the record time. So you might miss something depending on your camera positioning.
Hikvision with a local NVR. And if your scared because their Chinese (like everything else almost these days…) Put it all in a clan without internet access.
How has UniFi not been suggested yet?
Fear. While this is technically true and by far the best option there’s a lot of caveats to meeting the no cloud requirements.
Tapo
I would recommend PoE security cameras. You probably want support for RTSP / ONVIF.
I have some Amcrest cameras talking to Frigate. It is completely local—cameras on a separate VLAN that can’t talk to the Internet, footage is recorded on a server running Frigate. Works very well for me. No vendor lock-in is also nice!
I’d love PoE but unfortunately have to get wireless because I can’t run ethernet to the outside it’s just too much work for a big building and involves drilling holes, etc.
I have blink outdoor cameras, not the best out there, but very usable video, indoor work the same, you can put a USB flash drive in the sync module and use it on the local network, i use my 2.4 band for that and my home automation. Recorded clips stay on my flash drive locally, and I just say no to the subscription if it asks. All cameras connect to the same sync module. Have no complaints.