Currently learning Frigate, a self-hosted open source security cam software with local ai object detection, and had some trouble figuring out a cheap camera to find and use for testing purposes - specially one without a cloud-portal, that doesn't contact home, and has open rtsp for streaming. The only option I had found initially was reolink.

But sure enough, a robust community exists and someone, "thingino", has come out with re-flashing hacks for older model cameras like wyze v3's with dead simple instructions. Some cameras require soldering specs but others, like this one, only need no-tool installers like you would use for raspberry pi sd flashing.

Now you can grab some $10 cameras off your local craigslist or marketplace, bypass vendor lock-in, and re-utilize cameras that were needlessly destined for a trash bin by way of planned obsolescence from a wasteful companies demands.

https://thingino.com/

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpuRz04zVg

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