A friend of mine is helping me with setting up a Linux-based homebrew security system set up. He's currently using Wyze cameras, but they are faulty and have ads on them, so I'd like to find something more open-source/closed system that I can control completely. Any recommendations or pointers in the right direction would be great.
a few years ago i created a homemade security camera system using motion on my linux desktop and all of my unused smartphones as cameras with ip camera software along with the gnome google drive desktop plugin to upload pics/vids of events and notify me via email & priority phone notifications if something happened.
it was easy to setup, but it took forever to tweak the cameras' angles, mask and especially the lighting with infra red light bulbs so that they could get decent light in the videos and pics during night time and without having to keep all the regular lights on all the time.
i'm glad that i didn't spend any money of it because i only ended up with hundreds of hours videos and gigabytes of pics of me and my pets. lol
Wasn't exactly security but I used a RPi Zero with a camera to monitor my 3D print. It's small, low-power, wireless, didn't have any problem with it. I imagine the result can be recorded, analyzed, etc.
I'm just gonna add this for completion, DroidCamX can be installed on a smartphone and its cameras will act as an IP camera. DroidCamX also has a Linux package that will make the connected phone show up as a V4L2 device. You can connect the phone over USB or over LAN in two ways (PC connects to phone or phone connects to PC).
Now obviously a phone isn't ideal for running 24/7 but since this is about privacy I thought it's worth mentioning.
