I currently use Frigate as an NVR for my outside cameras. I would like something that integrates with that. I really just care that it is fully local. I don’t want a chance of someone on the internet being able to access a camera in my baby’s bedroom.
Be careful of what camera you get. My wife was breast feeding our child and people started talking to her. It was an “Amcrest” camera. Amcrest is actually a Chinese company and their firmware has holes the size of the Grand Canyon. If you confine it to your local network it would probably be fine but I just wanted to give you a heads up to DYOR on the security offered by each option.
I have all reolink cameras. I put them in a separate vlan with no internet access or DNS just LAN access. They are by far my favourite and already have tight integration support in home assistant.
I have two dcs-6100h for 9€ each that work just fine locally. Good ir night vision, very sensitiv mic and USB powered for trips.
I’m here for suggestions. Been using a xiaomi for a year but getting the thing configured on the go is a freaking pain.
I have Frigate set up with an Amcrest IP2M. I ended up buying a second wifi AP because my 2.4GHz was really clogged up after turning it on (probably related to a bunch of other stuff already on the same network).
It “phones home” a lot so I put it on a separate vlan and disabled internet access for it.
