Ah glad someone went down the Emby path! I tried doing this streaming from a Wyzebridge container but never got it working and gave up. I only wanted it to be able to quickly check certain cameras and will try it again in the future. It's a shame the Devs aren't more receptive
I see TAPO and Eufy mentioned. I do actually have a Eufy camera to test but I believe it's wired and it's pretty nice. TAPO is one I have tested but didn't deploy mostly because as I mentioned with taking a Wyze camera and flashing it - you become the entire infra for alerts. TAPO seems to have good image quality and I recall the low light was good too, price wasn't bad. Worth grabbing one to check out and test IMO. Eufy seems to make solid hardware too but I believe mine was a bit larger than the TAPO and Wyze hardware. I've tried out all sorts of whacky camera lol
I have one of their cameras that's wireless; I wouldn't recommend it. It can be flipped to a standards-based mode but it's no longer managed in their environment, has poor low light capability, and costs an ass load more than more capable cameras. Does have a nice look to it and isn't cheap plastic but it's also not weather rated.
I'm happy to provide them with the footage - after they ask and give me a reason to, perhaps even a warrant. I do not appreciate efforts to simply take footage from cloud providers for fishing expeditions.
I've been using Wyze cameras and the Wyze Bridge (https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge) in a container to stream standards-based traffic to NVR software. Sadly, the project appears to be abandoned and Wyze instituted some changes that made it difficult to use if the cameras weren't all on the same network as the container. There are forks but I've yet to try them and would appreciate feedback from others. Wyze reps claimed (on Reddit) that the change that broke things was a "back-end issue" and that they were working on a fix. Crickets. Older firmware worked but most of mine got flashed, it's possible to flash back with an SD card and image. If you aren't trying to record in multiple places connected with a VPN (Tailscale for instance) or have your IoT on a separate network this isn't a problem. I was recording 15 Wyze cameras to BlueIris reliably (some others too) and the cameras are dirt cheap and have EXTREMELY good light gathering for color video in low light! I also pay for their cloud service in order to get alerts and ease of access - one yearly fee for unlimited cameras so far and is a decent symbiotic relationship. Currently my system is down due to a long-distance move so I'm relying strictly on their app right now.
I had no issues with Wi-Fi congestion at the remote site that held ten cameras and a 30meg 'net service was fine over Tailscale for recording. The cameras have worked well in weather but I've not yet weather tested their V3 pan/scan unit - I will
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You can flash their cameras with open-source firmware but NOT all of them, they're locking them down in later versions like their newest flood-light cameras (dammit!). https://github.com/themactep/t... is a project that supports this and it has a good supported hardware list worth looking at. This will remove them from the Wyze ecosystem. There's a power injector sort of adapter that will allow you to (supposedly) provide power over the USB and get IP traffic from the USB port turning it into a sort of wired camera but I've not tested it - I did buy a few of the adapters to try when time allows. IF you do this all of the alerting and remote access setup will be up to you, it's obviously no longer symbiotic. Speaking of adapters - I've had multiple USB power adapters from Wyze die, using a good Anker replacement gets them back into service easily.
I like the form factor, I like the light gathering, I love the price (!), I own many of their cameras as well as some of their other hardware. I'd love to be able to buy one that was standards based out of the box even if it cost a bit more. I do NOT like that they screwed everyone with an infrastructure change and appear to have lied about fixing it. I want "local" 24x7 recording that doesn't rely on a damn SD card that can be stolen with the camera or corrupted. Wyze had beta firmware for some cameras that produced ONVIF streams (from memory..) but it was unreliable and not kept up - NOT recommended.
I have used one of the Ubiquity indoor cameras too. NOT worth the price, not good light gathering, and to stream to another NVR it has to be removed from their environment - don't do it.
Hope that helps some, I look forward to seeing what others have used. I know there's hardware similar to Wyze out there that may be more open and I think I have one in a box somewhere but I'm not sure it's as weather resistant and you get to handle all of the alerting etc. Frigate looks like a good NVR for this. BlueIris can alert too if you can get it sorted and they now screw around with pricing yearly if you want updates and I've yet to get their AI working so buyer beware.
P.S. I like the Dahua wired cameras - great low light, weather resistant, reliable, but rough firmware support, and I'd never let them talk to the 'net only to your NVR... Buy them from the vendor recommended on IPCAMTALK straight from China.
"use their personal card for work travel and then file paperwork for reimbursement"
Oh no, you mean like 80% of businesses do?
THE HORROR that someone is actually checking this shit off and signing for it.
Oh, and then the person themselves gets the rewards for their travel which is pretty awesome, instead of the organization using some GSG9's ff miles so Hegseth can pinch the stewardii in first class.
Tell me you don't do actual work without outright saying it.
The kind of people who are wanting/trying/thinking about killing excel are, in my view the same people who believe the same thing about email, and think you can do useful ongoing work communication on teams or other shit-chat platforms.
In May DOGE deactivated more than a HALF MILLION credit cards that were just floating around in Gov't slush drawers that couldn't be attributed to a specific employee, and this was noted as "nearly 10% of all the official credit cards held by the federal govt"...meaning the gov't had 5 MILLION open cc accounts.
right, they modded me troll decade and a half ago here when I said the nations will fall apart, governments will fail, libertarian ideas will take hold. They are modding me troll today, yet it is exactly what is happening. It is possible that people are actually afraid that my comments will cause ot to jappen somehow should more people read them. My comments are not the reason anything happens, that is magical thinking by the fearful moderators. My comments are a prediction and the reality is moving in the direction of my prediction.
Oh shut the fuck up with your tiresome bullshit.
I honestly don't give the slightest fuck if a family member is convicted of a crime because of my DNA sample. In fact I'd be delighted.
DNA is pretty low error.
US imports are up 10%?
That's funny, all the Internet experts here on slashdot insisted, INSISTED that the widespread application of tariffs was going to ruin our economy.
That's curious, didn't you think?
see, here nobody accepts my belief system, they have moded both of my comments as "troll", yet I never troll here, I always say what I mean when it comes to tech, politics and economics. To mode my comments as "troll" means to declare that I do not believe and practice what I say or maybe that I am trying to start some sort of a riot. The former assumes that I am not serious, the latter assumes that everyone reading these comments camnot engage in civilized discourse, it is disgusting really, that people deny others their intentions or agency.
any amount of government, all of it makes me sick to my stomach, that is all I have to say on the topic.
"It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa
