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Monitoring camera
Weaver:
[I believe I asked about IP cameras some while back, for Mrs Weaver being able to see guests arriving. Can’t find it though despite a dozen searches and memory being shot doesn’t help.]
I would be interested to know if you think the following might be any good ?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victure-Wireless-Detection-Security-Surveillance/dp/B07CB14GTB
I was thinking of having a baby-monitor type camera by my bed so that Mrs Weaver could keep an eye on me to see that I am alright. It also must be possible for her to talk to me and me to talk back, so a baby monitor++.
I really want devices that work on an existing 802.11n or 802.11ac infrastructure WLAN, ie one governed by WAPs, not things that use standalone rf or ad-hoc networks. I’m fairly sure that is true for this device, from the users’ Q&A. I don’t want any pollution of the airwaves by a rogue standalone device doing its own thing, taking up additional frequencies, which are very precious.
I don’t care about fabulous image quality. I unfortunately don’t know anything about the required accompanying software. It’s essential that it has iPad and iPhone software and it is extremely important that this software is of superb quality. In fact the quality of the software is the top deciding issue.
Again, from the Q&A, this one seems to be unable to speak 5GHz, most unfortunately.
If there is another similarly capable model but one that is more high-end then I would take a look at that too. I would be very attracted by a 5GHz one.
sevenlayermuddle:
I’ve sometimes looked at similar cameras and found that they appeared to depend upon some kind of cloud account, that the user had to create, residing on a remote server. Not sure if I have misunderstood, though. :-\
Reasons I’d not want a cloud based solution...
I don’t want to have to create yet another account, think of another password, etc.
I don’t want the camera using DSL bandwidth, unless I dictate it.
Excepting major players like Apple or Google etc, I would not generally trust the competence of cloud hosts, wrt security.
Would it all become useless if the vendor lost interest and the cloud server was removed?
Not sure if I have misunderstood the whole technology, or even if this specific device works that way, but I’d want to understand the answers. :)
Deathstar:
I tend to agree with 7LM.
I have CCTV, 1 Hikvision Camera connected to my NAS all cloud functionality disabled.
Synology come with 2 licences for their surveillance station.
I actually hardwired mine, but the Surveillance Station will work with IP Cameras.
I connect via the lan internally, and use port forwarding rules when connecting externally.
chenks:
you could probably knock up something fairly easily using a raspberry pi.
there is an official camera module for them, and i played about with a pre-compiled CCTV package for one, it was video only, but it worked as expected.
i'm sure there will be add-ons to allow for audio to.
it has a web front end that was accessible on pretty much any device.
edit - it's been a while but i think this was the package https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos
Weaver:
Oh, so perhaps the thing needs this so that it can identify users by some sort of account name outside the LAN on a different subnet? I never thought about that, I just imagined it working across one LAN and that’s it. Very good point, better forget that then. Damn, that is going to make this whole thing impossible.
I see some user in the Q&A claimed it would work if no internet connection. I would want that guaranteed before I risk my money ideally. I wonder if the manual can be obtained.
Whatever I buy, it will definitely be firewalled to block it from having any kind of internet access if I feel there’s any chance of anything funny going on. Firmware updates might be one defensible usage.
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