Edit: ideally wifi cameras that I can solar power.

Looking to replace my Arlo cameras with something self-hostable. Arlo lets you store on a USB stick, but there’s no way to get out from under their cloud, which gets more expensive all the time.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    I personally recommend against UniFi for security now. Their software just isn’t great anymore, and you can’t really “selfhost” the protect. You have to have one of their proprietary boxes hosting the protect software. I’m not 100% against that - but I was not aware of that when I bought the first camera and had to buy the box.

    As for the software, it’s honestly just buggy and laggy. I’m in their system now, but if I could do it all again I’d look at others.

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      1 year ago

      You have to have one of their proprietary boxes hosting the protect software

      This was the biggest bummer for me that convinced me not to get into the Unify ecosystem. I already have a robust storage solution at home, I just want to point the cameras to a docker container running on my host with all the storage.