Hello, I’m wondering what the consensus is (if there is one) on the best hardware and software (open source very much preferred, runs in Docker is a must) to use for privacy-respecting, self-hosted security cameras. I have always wanted to avoid feeding the surveillance state and have never had a security camera but unfortunately I recently saw evidence of someone trying to break into my home. I searched Lemmy for posts on this topic and only found one from two years ago: https://lemmy.world/post/12726787. I assume things are a bit different now so I’m basically making the same post again as OP. Thanks in advance for any tips anyone may have for me.

PS. My experience level is that I currently run several self-hosted solutions via Docker and have been doing so for a few years. I am not a networking guru but I do understand the basics, and I’ve setup pihole in the past (but deactivated it due to some false-positive issues). If there’s a reason to stand that back up in order to prevent otherwise private cameras from “phoning home”, I can do that.

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    10 hours ago

    It’a not just GPU, memory and disk. It will clobber your network if they share any cables.

    Cameras are extremely chatty and will bring your LAN speeds to a crawl by constantly chirping small packets across the wire.

    Absolutely do not ever put a 24x7 camera stream on WiFi. It’s a straight up DoS attack on yourself.

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      6 hours ago

      My main cameras are PoE but I have a couple WiFi cameras that are 24/7 and I’ve never had issues with my network slowing to a crawl.