What's a Jow Forums approved surveillance camera setup?

What's a Jow Forums approved surveillance camera setup?

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None. Everything surveillance is literally worst china quality. There is no escape. Even the really expensive stuff is made in china. It is all the same shit.

But the least shit is probably a combination of analoge cam + recorder. Avoid ipcams AT ALL costs.

Pi zero w + camera module STRICTLY confined to LAN. And make sure there's no way for attackers to get in your LAN (close dangerous ports, use a strong wpa2/psk password etc)

>LE CHINA IS BAD MEME XDD

An user recommended me Zoneminder but I haven't got the chance to test it yet so I'm not sure if it's good or not.

Its the equivalent of buying prebuilt shit.

Just buy few of the PTZ wifi camera from ebay for $10-$20, however much you need. Then connect them to router.

Then either write your own security software or use some open source security software thats available for free, there are plenty.

Costs run anywhere from $15+ $15X, where X = number of additional cameras.

Also alternatively, if you have bunch of old android phones lying around, you can use those cameras for home security system. Then use shit like Zoneminder or whatever else open source is there to connect them all, record, etc.

And for those of you who don't live off of your parents allowance: foscam or similar IPcamera running to a blueiris machine. Also learn what a fucking vlan and ethernet is you god damn child.

literally any shit will do, but better confine it to their own vlan with no egress/ingress from the internet if its some chinese thing.

retard

Any decent IP camera will work. PoE is preferable, other features like PTZ and and night vision are as needed. You should be aiming for 720p. Brand isn't all that important, just try to find one that provides decent support e.g. firmware updates and honors their warranty, etc.

You can put them all on the same LAN as your home network or you can create a separate LAN, up to you but some people prefer a separate LAN because it prevents the cameras from accessing WAN and WAN hosts from accessing the cameras, useful when the cameras come with dynamic DNS or other security concerns enabled by default.

Set up an old computer or a Pi or something as a NVR. I like Blue Iris software, but that's Windows only. There are other options for Linux. Set the cameras up initially, give them static IP, change the admin password, make any other changes as necessary, then you never have to fuck with shitty chink web interfaces again. The NVR should have plenty of hard drive space if you are keeping recordings, Blue Iris records every time motion is detected be default. Also consider changing encoding settings, Blue Iris by default will re-encode all video before writing to disk, but you can change this so it writes directly to disk to save CPU usage. If the cameras are on a separate LAN, consider a second NIC for the NVR so it can connect to the LAN with the cameras and your home network. Blue Iris also allows you to set up a web interface, which you can make accessible from WAN, behind a strong password of course.

retard

*720p or higher

Lovely post, dear user, I'm not OP, but I'll be definitely refer to your post some time in the future. What do you suggest if I want to be able to watch things while away? You said Blue Iris can do it, but is it secure provided I use a good enough password?

You can configure Blue Iris so that your login is secure but Blue Iris does not support HTTPS so video and such will not be encrypted. The recommended solution is to configure stunnel as a reverse proxy with SSL/TLS.

I use FosCAM cameras and ZoneMinder. No complaints about either.

I knew someone that worked at a casino in Florida.
They spent thousands of dollars on a getting the parking lot up to speed since a lot of drug deals and hookers were happening there.
Day 23 into the system. All they had to do was find the power box near the elevator and shut off the power and none of the cameras worked.

Look into passive powerless or PoE security shit op

A windows 10 computer with webcam

why is there no clear cut american made option instead of this bullshit chinese ip cam faggot shit???

I went through this with the baby monitor camera after having our daughter a few months ago. Bought an Arlo cam from Netgear. The motherfucker worked for about 10 seconds after spending hours with tech support because nothing fucking worked.

we bought a pair of 20 dollar audio monitors and the expensive Arlo cam is going into the trash.

it's true what they said earlier ITT, it's all chinese garbage. my old tech shop manager had a huge side business doing cameras for major gas stations and even prison contracts, did some for my business and they're all 480p bullshit black and white. which might be fine ten years ago but fuck son it's ridiculous today. I was in a big wig conference room a couple days ago for a major national finance company and desu senpai it wasn't much better, despite everyone having 3-5k dollar macs at their desks and making money hand over foot being, well, one of the most successful finance companies around.

every camera with internet connectivity has a backdoor

A collection of shitty webcams wired directly to a 20 year old HP machine running Motion on Debian that sends alerts and snapshots in a one-way transaction via GSM to my phone. All footage is saved and viewed locally with reference to received alerts.

Why would I give a live visual feed of my house to the People's Republic of China?

>camera module
Why use this instead of a cheapo usb webcam?
Or even instead of one of these IR camera that can "see in the dark"?

>buying chinkshit from amazon
I bet you think its a good deal too, what an idiot

It is, in this case. Reasons:
Software on every china cam or recorder I have come along (read: EVERY cam as there is literally none that is not from china, even those made by Samsung or Bosch) was fucking bad.
1080p or 720p on ipcam is actually ALWAYS 480p or 360p scaled up. You do not get crisp images on ANY cam.
Bonus: They do in fact all violate GPL

>Brand isn't all that important
true
>just try to find one that provides decent support e.g. firmware updates and honors their warranty, etc.
This has, in the whole history of mankind, never happened

>Bought an Arlo cam from Netgear.
>Netgear
Well, what did you expect?!

>How to block outgoing connections 101


Sigh

But seriously, avoid this whole crap and get analog cams with a dedicated recorder. It will save you at least *some* hassle. It will still suck, because the recorder will have fucked up chinese software, but it will be $many-times better than any ipcam setup. Even analog nvrs basically act like webservers and allow you to use rtsp on remote machines.

your own