Im looking for a Wifi camera with the possibility to record on a server.

I buy a generic camera that when i make a nmap i get:

Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.172
Host is up (0.024s latency).
Not shown: 999 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT     STATE SERVICE
6668/tcp open  irc
MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (Shenzhen iComm Semiconductor)

And this camera have just “cloud storage”… and with “cloud” they mean “pay for it”. So, i want to know if there is a local server that maybe can get this camera, or if you can tell me for other camera that i can buy and i could connect to a home server (acting as cloudstorage)

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  • kcornet@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use Reolink cameras and Blue Iris as an NVR. Works very well. The Reolink cameras aren’t as cheap as the generic cloud based ones, but not horrible either.

    Blue Iris is about $80

    Blue Iris integrates nicely with Home Assistant.

    • Der_Dingel@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      My reolinks upload their recordings to my local ftp server so you don’t even need an NVR

    • binaryhellstorm@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I would second this. I am always a proponent of PoE cameras, but if you can get an RTSP IP camera that’s wifi then really all that’s changing is the physical layer and it’ll work like a Ethernet cameras. Then it’s just LAN traffic. Block if from hitting the internet in your VLAN/firewall rules and call it a day.

      If you’re really strapped for cash you can hack the firmware on a few of the Wyze cams to get RTSP out of them, but MAKE SURE you block them as they will CONSTANLY phone home and make sure you block via MAC not IP as I’ve watched mine pull different IPs in an attempt to get around IP level WAN blocks.

    • kotarix@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Blue Iris is about $80

      And is also a yearly subscription if you want things like push notifications to still work.