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Looking for outdoor camera I can access when I'm away from home. (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by Rocinante@lemmy.one to c/chat@lemmy.one

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Don't have much technical background so was looking to pick up whatever options were on Amazon, and not keeping it indoors since aware that the company I choose could decide to spy on me. But, I don't really care for outside the house.

Question is if having these type of devices running on the same wifi network I'm using is safe for my other devices? And does running that device on the guest wifi help?

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I picked up an indoor WYZE camera and it's really feature rich for $30. The outdoor ones are a tiny bit higher, are suited for all weather. They record to local SD card, power by usb or Poe, so super easy to use. Can use cloud storage for like $3/month and more features. I'm sure they have even some prosumer stuff too, I only got the basic one. Their app works well, used it when I was on vacation to check things.

Just avoid RING cameras as Amazon basically gives their employees free reign to look at anyone's footage, employees even searching for cameras tagged "bedroom", etc. They'll also hand over your footage to police without warrants.

Put it on the guest network if your guest network only provides internet access and not full network access to other devices. This is pretty standard for IOT devices.