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)
Ubiquiti…unifiprotect.
You’ll thank me later.
Edit: I can’t tell if you’re talking for your personal use, or to be a hardware provider of sorts…
The two terms I have learned to look for when searching for cameras are ONVIF and RTSP.
(Open network video interface and real time streaming protocol) https://bas-ip.com/articles/onvif-ip-camera-tech/#:~:text=Difference%20between%20ONVIF%20and%20RTSP&text=In%20the%20context%20of%20IP,used%20for%20transmitting%20video%20data.
I was able to find onvif cameras on amazon pretty cheap and they connect to homeassistant and do what I want without cloud connections.
You need an ONVIF supporting camera to get away from proprietary clouds. Just search ONVIF on Amazon, many cams support it.
Blue iris with amcrest cameras here, most are poe but I have a wireless one I plug into a battery pack when I need to see something anywhere else on wifi. Like which breaker turns off that light sort of stuff. I have no issue believing wireless would be very reliable full time here and plan to add a wireless camera to my detached garage soon.
Cameras are on their own lan, plugged into a second network card in my PC, the cameras are not reachable from wan or the main network. Everything is fixed IP to keep it simple and reliable.
Blue iris webserver is accessible from lan on my main network, which also has a VPN server in the router. The webserver is not accessible to wan. This way with openvpn on my phone I can see the cameras from anywhere in the world, very safely and completely free except blue iris 1 time purchase and cost of the equipment.
Email notifications from blue iris work well, but I have not set up any of the AI stuff so I get false notifications for rain and clouds frequently unfortunately, everything else about this setup will last the test of time and is to my knowledge about as secure as possible while still maintaining access remotely.
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.
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.