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…
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.
You need an ONVIF supporting camera to get away from proprietary clouds. Just search ONVIF on Amazon, many cams support it.
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.
There are a few options for local NVRs such as Blue Iris or Frigate. Both can do facial/object recognition. They’ll work with any camera that supports direct access.