Recent content by Kk9

Come to think of it; all this said - Aren't there businesses who monitor cameras of multiple locations offsite from a corporate office? I realize that what I'm doing isn't that uncommon, only in a residential sense. What are enterprises doing to accomplish this? Not L2L, I hope..

I disagree, but this isn't open source software. Just a name. That said, for this kind of work, I don't mind paying and fully expect to.

eehh.. yeah, that's nuts. Too much. I'm basically wishing a software feature to exist that has no reason to exist except for in this one case, lol. I may have to go the original route of directing everyone to connect to whatever vpn goes to what cameras. I'm looking at an online service option...

I briefly tried to mess with either openwrt or ddwrt and I don't remember which one. I recall it being very convoluted though, and asking for configuration of things that i had never even heard of. I'm not exactly new to networking though, but whatever I was looking at felt like it was more of a...

These are great tips, I had no idea a used PoE switch could get that inexpensive. So - this is interesting and new, I just spoke to someone today about this who lives in my area. We talked about a virtual "neighborhood watch" of sorts where if certain willing (and paying) parties would get the...

OPNsense, not pfsense

Are there OSINT techniques specific to camera operation? I'm wondering if there's a public database with known criminals/various "offenders" with facial data, having an API for BI (probably cost incurring), that in turn would alert you specifically for anyone caught on your cameras with a record...

Thanks! Yeah I fully intend to avoid brands like that. I'm a privacy advocate so I'm trying to keep it as close to cctv as I can with full control over any exceptions to that.

I wasn't expecting that.. Windows only? I was suspecting linux, figuring it's used to more or less build your own nvr box at least. Get the right hardware, box it in a nice compact form factor, install BI (as an OS), and boot it up. Never thought it'd be a windows program. So you build a...

Yeah I'm familiar with VPN's, I'm surprised you guys don't prefer wireguard. I already have my own cloud storage, but as far as I can tell, it would only be good for backups. I don't ever plan on recording 24/7, just always-on for live access but recording on triggers.. i don't know what...

And forever behind wireguard

I just wanted to hook up some cameras... Wth did I get myself into.. I've read a little about bitrates, surveillance storage drives, framerate*color depth*resolution (x*y), compression methods, hardware acceleration, DNR, Vlans - I have no idea where to begin. I want an expandable setup...