alt Hacker News- get a cheapo chinese camera supported by thingino firmware
- install FW.
- extra: install open source NVR like frigade and connect these cameras, preferably over ethernet not wifi.
- extra extra: have a separate VLAN for these cameras.
Now you have a secure isolated system. If you want a remote viewer, you can have a vpn tunnel to your nvr to access it from anywhere in the world.
It’s not a perfect system but way more secure than anything consumer out there
Great Project! I just wish, their HDB would enable filtering on which cameras have Ethernet, and/or the data-lines connected on the USB-Power-Plug, so that I could equip them with USB NIC (for the ones that don't have ethernet), and then run them with a POE-Splitter.
Having the data pins connected would also enable lots of other nifty use-cases.
Also, have they managed to forward port the drivers to a recent mainline kernel in the meantime, or are they still on ancient vendor SDK kernel versions?