A friends mother that I used to rent a room from asked me to help her set up an outside home security system with motion sensors so she could watch the neighborhood cats cat around in her yard. I thought I’d screenshotted a previous Lemmy thread that had a perfect recommendation, nope. Can’t find it.

I recently got my CCNA and figured it would be good practice to set it up for her. she wants 4 cameras with motion sensors for each. What system would you recommend, with what software? (Not connected to the internet of course, going to set up a server for her with one of the old computers she has laying around)

Thanks Lemmy! And yes I realize I could Google but figured I’d ask y’all lmao

  • @AMillionMonkeysEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    I choose a Reolink camera. It works well with Surveillance Station on my Synology NAS, Home Assistant, the official Android client, and the official Mac client. I’ve never been able to get the official Windows client to work. It’s failed to work on two different computers.
    The camera runs off Power Over Ethernet, so it’s just a single CAT6 cable and there are no batteries to manage.
    The camera bounces your requests to stream through Reolink’s servers by default, but you can disable that feature if you’re only using the cameras locally.