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Wellness Wednesday for November 30, 2022

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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Is there any easily installable camera security system that isn't tied to the cloud and going to blab images of me to anyone who cares enough to hack it/the police if they ask Amazon nicely?

It seems like it would be a nice thing to have around in case of valuables, but fuck me if I'm going to use a product that will hand footage directly to the cops.

Second this. The best I could come up with when tackling the exact requirements as the original top level comment, was to setup unifi cameras to record to my NAS. If I remember correctly there were very few camera companies that didn't try to force you to use their subscription service.

You can build one around QNAP/Synology NAS. Look for small companies selling their NAS setups due to going bankrupt.

Reolink cameras have on-device human and car recognition, and you can locally record to either an SD card or a PC running something like Blue Iris (or buy a DVR, but why). Planning to install one soon.

I don't think about recording so much, because the point of a security system is to start the chain that brings a gun to bear, not tell the uninterested cops who stole all your shit.