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 :)

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      22 hours 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.socialOPEnglish
      8·
      23 hours ago

      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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

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

      • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        23 hours ago

        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.