My girlfriend is be very interested in putting Blink (Amazon) cameras up around our property. I am not interested in paying Amazon to keep our security footage.
What I’d like to do is have motion activated internet connected cameras around the property that somehow send footage to a server (I don’t know if that’s the correct term, I’m kind of an idiot) that I keep on the property.
So I have three questions:
- is this the right forum to be asking about self hosting security footage?
- does anyone here have experience doing this and would they be willing to send some pointers my way?
- is this a feasible DIY project or am I better served paying for a service?
I’ve done a little digging into self hosting and it’s not cheap, but I think it will be cheaper than paying a subscription. And safer too, which is rad.
Thank you all!
Do you have any good guides or articles diving deeper on this? I was also pondering Home Assistant - it supports tapo devices, but I don’t know much about it. Would that be a possible solution?
would this include a live cam feed?
I just told you it works fine under Home Assistant and provided a link to the integration. https://github.com/JurajNyiri/HomeAssistant-Tapo-Control
Yes. It includes, live feed, the ability to move the camera, ring the bell, turn on privacy mode, enable patrol mode… and use the camera’s sensors. There’s also an option to automatically download recorded video on the camera’s SD card every x hours or days. Here’s the full list of entities available under HA for those cameras (note that your camera must support the feature):
Sorry, didn’t click the link, didn’t realize HA stands for Home Assistance there. As you can tell, pretty new to this. Thanks for the answer!
Sure, no problem. The bottom line is that it works very well for the low price of those cameras and I couldn’t be happier.