mesa1d ago
Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras - Benn Jordan
It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras 😬

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What I find fascinating is that he said you can just get a wireless camera that encrypts and stores to an SD card if you want a camera.

I just spent two hours looking for such a device and as far as I can tell, unless you’re looking for a 1080p spy cam, nothing exists. All security cameras either need WiFi to setup or have cellular connectivity. There are PoE wired options with DVRs, but no battery powered just sit there and record options.

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Show threadDoublenut1d ago
I believe arlo cameras have an option to keep all recording in house. I think still connected through your wifi.
Show threadmesa1d ago
Try reolink. They have a couple of options. You dont need a wifi connection. Justvan sd card. Or if you want ypu can have s/ftp setup at your pwn hpme server.
Show threadLem45316h ago

Not sure about encrypted storage on the SD card, never heard of that.

However, reolink can be setup with the app once then connected to a VLAN that has no internet access and connects only to home assistant. Then you access the camera with home assistant only.

Requires technical knowledge to setup, but reolink cameras work well in this setup.

Show threadSightline16h ago
Yeah Reolink is good, I have 5 of their cameras blocked from the internet with their NTP server set to my solar Raspberry Pi with GPS.