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Previously asked 2 years ago.

What are folks using these days? Reolink seemed to be a popular choice 2 years ago. I'll start looking here.

I've been using Eufy (yeah, I know). Apparently, Eufy has a way to transfer clips to a NAS via RTSP. However, I've been seeing users complain that the transferred clips end up with degraded quality. Not great. De-great-ed.

My home server has plenty of space on it, so it would be cool if I could save clips (or all the video footage?) directly to my ZFS pool.

What do folks' security camera setup look like?

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm just testing out thingino, but it's currently lacking features compared to amcrest.

There's no option to only save video when events trigger, so it fills the card quickly.

And I can't get the tinyCam app to access recorded files, so I have to use the web-based file browser.

But then Amcrest's apps (both old and new) have do many faults and glitchy behavior.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I'm referring to Amcrest Pro cameras, btw. They are the ones that let you configure them to be independent of their cloud service, write to a NAS, etc.

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