@ryanc yep for sure. I’ll only have the one spot where I can’t do wired for same reasons. The other location is at the door and only recently can you find wired bells that are affordable. Mines much older and I haven’t looked at what’s available & unlocked these days.
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Seth Hanford 🐡 (ckure@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 05:17:18 JST Seth Hanford 🐡
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Seth Hanford 🐡 (ckure@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 04:46:24 JST Seth Hanford 🐡
@ryanc my amcrests are a little older, but generally the dome and bullet cams all do what you're asking. I have various experience with a pretty wide variety of 2/3/4MP bullets & domes.
I also have an Amcrest floodlight cam sitting here on my office floor because it's a location where I don't have a good ethernet route but I do have a security floodlight already (ASH26-W). Weather is just getting good enough to install it so I don't have first-hand experience just yet, but it is Wifi and I'm expecting it to be mildly challenging, just like the wifi doorbell I use an AD110. For both of these, I expect/have experienced to have to setup an account at first to provision them, and then reconfigure them to push/pull to a local server.
On the Dahua(?) front, I understand that they do things like setting alert zones & such a bit more easily than Amcrest, but the differences are likely in software -- hardware probably whitelabeled.
And I understand re: corporate ethics. I just mentioned it because it tends to be the next question, but didn't want to assume/presume. And yeah, at the end of the day there are only so many options commercially available.
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Seth Hanford 🐡 (ckure@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 02:45:05 JST Seth Hanford 🐡
@ryanc last time I looked, Dahua, HikVision, and Amcrest all fit the bill (I think Amcrest are white-label of one of those, prob Dahua). There are select models where ONVIF is a challenge, but largely they should all match for you. I tend toward Amcrest and know it the best of those 3.
When I see people list local-capable/POE/ONVIF, I also commonly see a bullet point for "company doesn't support oppression" factors, which tends to be the next differentiating factor among the leaders that overlap with your requirements.
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Seth Hanford 🐡 (ckure@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 14:51:54 JST Seth Hanford 🐡
@SwiftOnSecurity The only thing we need to sort beforehand is: Tay is now a billionaire. We don't need more of those in charge.