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I worked with a few cheap IP cameras from Jaycar once upon a time.
They cost about $90, and were just basically little RSTP servers
with zero authentication. There was a proprietary IE-only interface,
as Bill says, but I found that I could just ignore that and wrote a
tiny script to wrap logrotate and vlc to record half-hour segments
to disk. Worked flawlessly for years, and although the recording has
since been discontinued, I think the cameras are still being peered
at by some people (this was at a previous workplace; no idea what
the current situation is).<br>
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So yeah, an FOSS solution is possible. Not sure I'd call it secure,
on the network, but maybe that's okay.<br>
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—Sam<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/07/16 12:42, Bill Kenworthy
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Hi,<br>
I have had an IP camera for a few years and it worked well
until the UV filter jammed ruining the night vision. Did catch an
inquisitive person "looking for a party he was told was here"
falling into our fishpond in the dark :)<br>
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WiFi cameras work, but tie up very significant bandwidth if you
try external motion detection - I used "motion" at one time.<br>
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Almost all require a windows IE browser addin with much of the
security turned off to work so you can set them up ... then they
may be partially usable in Linux :( The ones I have all need a
local connection (i.e., wont accept a connection routed from
another network where I have Win VM's)<br>
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Then a couple of win versions down the road you find yourself
maintaining old win VM's (XP in one case) for the purpose of
maintaining it :( <br>
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I also have one with wifi and no night vision - waste of time.<br>
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I also would really like to find one that just works with Linux
....<br>
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BillK<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/16/16 14:11, Daniel wrote:<br>
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type="cite">Hi
<div>I'm getting uninvited guests trying car doors and windows
so considering getting external security cameras with good
night vision to record these events. </div>
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<div>Much of the hardware and solutions seem proprietary and it
may be that I haven't known enough to ask the right questions
but I was put off some 'solutions'.<span></span></div>
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<div>Does anyone know about Open Source solutions or have anyone
to recommend please?</div>
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<div>Many thanks</div>
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<div>Daniel</div>
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