Hello, I’m wondering what the consensus is (if there is one) on the best hardware and software (open source very much preferred, runs in Docker is a must) to use for privacy-respecting, self-hosted security cameras. I have always wanted to avoid feeding the surveillance state and have never had a security camera but unfortunately I recently saw evidence of someone trying to break into my home. I searched Lemmy for posts on this topic and only found one from two years ago: https://lemmy.world/post/12726787. I assume things are a bit different now so I’m basically making the same post again as OP. Thanks in advance for any tips anyone may have for me.
PS. My experience level is that I currently run several self-hosted solutions via Docker and have been doing so for a few years. I am not a networking guru but I do understand the basics, and I’ve setup pihole in the past (but deactivated it due to some false-positive issues). If there’s a reason to stand that back up in order to prevent otherwise private cameras from “phoning home”, I can do that.
if you want completely free; completely private; and a project that will force you to learn A LOT because it’s needful nature, there’s motion and it’ll work with any ip based camera. i used the ip webcam app to convert some old phones that i had laying around collecting dust into security cameras.
then i used google’s desktop integrations with gnome to get alerts when i wasn’t home and put the cameras on a segment of my network with no access to the internet to ensure privacy and it can also be containerized.