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 :)
There is some great resources here
https://ipcamtalk.com/wiki/ip-cam-talk-cliff-notes/
Unfortunately the average security enthusiast is a frothing conservative but they tend to keep their politics to a few dedicated threads, they are very helpful other than that.
If you want good performance in the dark keep your sensor size in the green on this chard
I currently run frigate on my server and just add cameras I find with the right sensor ratio for a good price. I have a couple of older 2mp wiz nets that would have been $500-700 new that I got for $70 each that see outside at night great.