I’ve got a server running Debian and I’ve previously borrowed a wildlife cam for my garden. It activates on motion and records, has night vision, etc…

That said the only way to get the footage is to go out there and pull the SD card.

Is there a self-hosted approach to this? I don’t know what weather-proof camera setup people like for this sort of thing.

Edit for clarity: I don’t own a camera. I would need to buy one. That’s part of what this post is about - is there some self hosted software for this sort of thing that has a list of cameras it supports? Or a standard that the software needs the camera to support?

  • papertowels@mander.xyzEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    There are multiple wifi-connected solar powered cameras that will do the motion-activation, IR night mode, etc. thing that you’re asking for, that you can just drop into a location, but they won’t be self hosted.

    Unfortunately pretty much everything you’d self host takes time and finagling, it’s just the price of privacy/independence. I know you’re asking for a self hosted solution but that will be difficult with little free time. I’ve been running frigate for a year and I still can’t get some object detection masks to properly ignore detections.

    • Flamekebab@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      An honest answer that it’s not currently easily doable is in and of itself useful.

      This is a “nice to have”. I figured I’d ask preemptively so that I didn’t go down a blind alley. Thanks!