Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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When you say "app" do you mean something that will let you view remotely through a residential NAT connection with no port forwarding or hole punching? Because 99.9% of those options are inherently not private.
If you only need the camera itself to have a local feed i.e. you already have some kind of VPN/tunnel/etc. into your home network, then something like a cheap Amcrest works fine and does not require Internet access for the camera itself.
Out of town viewing through tailscale or something similar. The feed needs to remain private from the LAN/WIFI. Only access is through me from outside the network.
Buy a cheap wyze camera (theyre like 20 bucks) and put wz_mini_hacks on an SD card. Its very easy.
i personally stay away of any "cloud" connection like hik connect...
By cloud connection I mean that the device connects to the provider's cloud (vpn) and you(end user) connect to the provider to view your OWN video footage.
In terms of privacy this is disaster because the provider can view/process as in AI all your video footage in real time. Further the provider can track the shit out of us and do many other nasty things...
Hope it helps!
As far as easy, commercially available stuff I like UniFi. You can set custom recording schedules, or never record. Or only record motion. You can also set privacy zones which are blacked out and not visible or recorded.
You do need one of their consoles or NVRs to manage them though, and they aren't super cheap.
You could install OctoPi and use that camera feed. It's a little overkill compared to motioneyeOS since it's originally meant for monitoring and controlling 3D printers, but I've had better luck getting OctoPi to set up a camera feed than motioneyeOS, which was abandoned by the developer years ago.
You could install it on the NUC, plug in a camera, and it should just work. Then use whatever remote access method you want, i.e. tailscale, port forwarding, VPN, etc.
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