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Recommendations for IP camera without proprietary app to setup? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am looking for an IP PoE camera. The thing is, it must work out of the box with something like ONVIF or at least give video stream right away.

I don't want to run any proprietary apps on my devices, including JavaScript web apps hosted by the camera.

Do you know of any that can be just plugged to the network (would run it on VLAN) and automagically appear on Home Assistant, iSpy or Frigate?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did exactly this last year to monitor my cats at home while I was on holiday.

I bought two of these - REOLINK RLC-811A: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09873G7X3

I assigned static IPs to both of these, and blocked all of their outgoing traffic to the public internet (in case Chairman Xi or Strongman Putin wants to also see what my cats are up to).

I then spun up a local motioneye container: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye

The cameras by default (I think) provide rtsp streams, so I added the two streams (rtsp://somehostname.local:554/h265Preview_01_main) to motioneye and verified that I was able to view the camera streams on my local LAN.

The last step was simply to use cloudflare to as an authentication frontend to proxy my local motioneye container to my public domain name. Worked a treat!

Hope this helps, cheers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

(in case Chairman Xi or Strongman Putin wants to also see what my cats are up to).

😁