I tried wyze and find it silly how video clips are limited to 5 seconds unless you give them money every month. I want something where the footage is saved on a local sdcard/hdd without any cloud reliance.

Even better if I don’t have to be locked into using the manufacturer’s app, but I’m flexible on that.

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    7 hours ago

    I tried a few, I ended up with a Reolink… great quality image, records to an ftp folder on my nas. Though some sort of magic, I can access the camera when I am away from home via the app

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      I have multiple Reolink cameras at this point and just have them recording to a SD card and blocked from the internet.

      They have local ML models for human, animal and vehicle detection, so something like Frigate isn’t strictly necessary, though I haven’t bothered setting them up with Home Assistant yet and mainly use them with the Reolink app and VLC with RTSP. Sometimes, I unblock them from the internet temporarily if I’m going to need to access them remotely.