I'm building my own cam monitoring system cuz I want sec cams, they're cheap and good now, but I fucking hate depending on cloudshit.
You can put custom firmware on $25 Wyze cams that turn them into dumb RTSP streamers, the one I use is called OpenMiko. Grab the streams coming off em with FFMPEG using a decentish old PC/Raspberry Pi 4/Nvidia Jetson/etc and write to a disk rolling buffer style. All pretty easy linux shell script kinda stuff and you have a basic security cam recorder system you can build on.
If you're building your own it may be worth your time to check out open source DVR's. The best option I found was zoneminder at https://zoneminder.com. The biggest complaint I ran into was that the GUI wasn't like our paid for products and there's a learning curve.
I had some old VCP's I tested that did 10fps output as a JPEG stream and there was a lot of trial and error getting the URL worked out so the size of the image was right and the borders of the web page didn't' show up in the feed. If you use newer IP cameras open source will work a lot better for you.
Seriously get rid of Ring Neighbor app. That fucker is spying on you like a bug in the White House.
I'm building my own cam monitoring system cuz I want sec cams, they're cheap and good now, but I fucking hate depending on cloudshit.
You can put custom firmware on $25 Wyze cams that turn them into dumb RTSP streamers, the one I use is called OpenMiko. Grab the streams coming off em with FFMPEG using a decentish old PC/Raspberry Pi 4/Nvidia Jetson/etc and write to a disk rolling buffer style. All pretty easy linux shell script kinda stuff and you have a basic security cam recorder system you can build on.
If you're building your own it may be worth your time to check out open source DVR's. The best option I found was zoneminder at https://zoneminder.com. The biggest complaint I ran into was that the GUI wasn't like our paid for products and there's a learning curve.
I had some old VCP's I tested that did 10fps output as a JPEG stream and there was a lot of trial and error getting the URL worked out so the size of the image was right and the borders of the web page didn't' show up in the feed. If you use newer IP cameras open source will work a lot better for you.