I tried wyze and find it silly how video clips are limited to 5 seconds unless you give them money every month. I want something where the footage is saved on a local sdcard/hdd without any cloud reliance.
Even better if I don’t have to be locked into using the manufacturer’s app, but I’m flexible on that.
As others advice, frigate is great. You can set this up under home assistant, which is a smart home open source OS/software and even if you have no plan of doing smart home, it is very handy as you can easily create automation which can send you notification with pics, will trigger an alarm, turn on lights… If you don’t already have device powerful enough to run frigate, I would advise to look for a mini pc with n100 or n150 processors, they are not very expensive (around 150€) and don’t consume much electricity (close to raspberry pi 5 while being more powerful).
And add some Thingino liberated camera’s to it!
Had to search as I never heard about thingino, seems helpful for a few cameras. Alternatively blocking internet access to camera would work just as good
Agreed, a lot of camera’s need weird proprietary apps (or cloud connections) to be set up though (or function fully, even offline), thats why I would recommend this. If yours doesnt: great!