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title: "Domestic Surveilance"
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date: 2025-02-24T22:01:14+02:00
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draft: true
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I am building a house, for which I decided I need a webcam. I have never set up
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a security camera, so have zero knowledge before starting; one good thing — I
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knew the requirements pretty well:
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- Nothing that has a subscription fee. ring.com is pretty good for short-term
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plug&play, but I cannot brace myself for a yearly payment, especially that I
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have (and can afford to maintain and upgrade) storage, network and compute.
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- Use off-the-shelf hardware, so I am only minimally required to maintain the
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setup.
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The Setup
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```
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Camera
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LTE/5G Router
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<public internet>
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NVR
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```
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* Camera is the single most important component. Easy to understand what it is
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and why it matters too.
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* *NVR* is a Network Video Recorder. Besides the camera, this is the *second
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most important component*. This is the thing that captures a video stream
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from the camera, (optionally) detects people and vehicles.
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Picking the camera
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[A friend of a friend](https://jpg.lt/), who has been setting up security
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cameras for the last 15 years, recommended Dahua.
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A popular open-source NVR
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