What are the paid features and what are the costs? Do I have to install the app to see the list of paid features and costs?
You might get a better response from HN if you give us more info up front.
I'm new to HN and thought shilling the paid stuff violates the rules, so I didn't mention them.
HN ain't a non profit charity, but is the forum of a venture capitalist company, so talking about paid things does not violate any rules.
The only thing that wouldn't be fine is to post a Show HN with no way to try the product out (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and you're fine on that part.
There are bunch of small brands that sell excellent cheap devices with sane firmware, and a few more popular ones who will make your life hell. Blue Iris or Frigate for the NVR software.
This thread is a good reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCamera/comments/1lesio1/wha...
Most cameras on that list are low cost, typically with 4-5MP sensors. They don't compete on the high end in terms of image quality but you will have an open source firmware stack with root access over SSH.
Models from Eufy, Cinnado, Jooan, TP-Link, WUUK, Galayou are relatively easy to source on Amazon or Aliexpress.
This is basically how I run Frigate at home today, with only the NVR able to reach the camera IPs on my no web access “internet of nothing” VLAN.
I would imagine any GPGPU compute-capable pre-CUDA thing probably won't cut it.
- View your live camera feeds remotely.
- Receive notifications on events (objects/people detected).
- View event clips remotely.
- End-to-end encryption on all data.
What neither of the solutions seem to have, is encryption at rest. But I guess others, just like me, rather encrypt the volume/storage itself, instead of leaving it up to applications anyways, so might/might not matter for you.
There is an unfinished but functional APK and android project in the repo, but it’s not on the Google Play store yet, their approval process for new individual devs is long
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I think this software-only post is meant for IP cameras / surveillance cameras. Internet is the oposite of closed circuit.
Maybe CCTV is used as a synonym for surveillance now in some regions of the world, but certainly confusing for a non-native speaker.
diggan•2h ago
I think in this case, IP is referring to IP from TCP/IP, meaning "The Internet Protocol", not necessarily over/through "public internet links", so as long as you're only within your own local network/WAN, wouldn't that still be CCTV then? Or maybe the "closed circuit" thing is more of a physical property than I read it to be?
I'm also non-native English speaker FWIW.