Ah glad someone went down the Emby path! I tried doing this streaming from a Wyzebridge container but never got it working and gave up. I only wanted it to be able to quickly check certain cameras and will try it again in the future. It's a shame the Devs aren't more receptive :(

I see TAPO and Eufy mentioned. I do actually have a Eufy camera to test but I believe it's wired and it's pretty nice. TAPO is one I have tested but didn't deploy mostly because as I mentioned with taking a Wyze camera and flashing it - you become the entire infra for alerts. TAPO seems to have good image quality and I recall the low light was good too, price wasn't bad. Worth grabbing one to check out and test IMO. Eufy seems to make solid hardware too but I believe mine was a bit larger than the TAPO and Wyze hardware. I've tried out all sorts of whacky camera lol

I have one of their cameras that's wireless; I wouldn't recommend it. It can be flipped to a standards-based mode but it's no longer managed in their environment, has poor low light capability, and costs an ass load more than more capable cameras. Does have a nice look to it and isn't cheap plastic but it's also not weather rated.

I'm happy to provide them with the footage - after they ask and give me a reason to, perhaps even a warrant. I do not appreciate efforts to simply take footage from cloud providers for fishing expeditions.

I've been using Wyze cameras and the Wyze Bridge (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmrlt8%2Fdocker-wyze-bridge) in a container to stream standards-based traffic to NVR software. Sadly, the project appears to be abandoned and Wyze instituted some changes that made it difficult to use if the cameras weren't all on the same network as the container. There are forks but I've yet to try them and would appreciate feedback from others. Wyze reps claimed (on Reddit) that the change that broke things was a "back-end issue" and that they were working on a fix. Crickets. Older firmware worked but most of mine got flashed, it's possible to flash back with an SD card and image. If you aren't trying to record in multiple places connected with a VPN (Tailscale for instance) or have your IoT on a separate network this isn't a problem. I was recording 15 Wyze cameras to BlueIris reliably (some others too) and the cameras are dirt cheap and have EXTREMELY good light gathering for color video in low light! I also pay for their cloud service in order to get alerts and ease of access - one yearly fee for unlimited cameras so far and is a decent symbiotic relationship. Currently my system is down due to a long-distance move so I'm relying strictly on their app right now.

I had no issues with Wi-Fi congestion at the remote site that held ten cameras and a 30meg 'net service was fine over Tailscale for recording. The cameras have worked well in weather but I've not yet weather tested their V3 pan/scan unit - I will :) It tracks motion well, I have one inside a building. I am using Ubiquity APs meshed over Wi-Fi for now and am getting good distance. Weirdly some of the MAC show up as kitchen appliances

Alternately:

You can flash their cameras with open-source firmware but NOT all of them, they're locking them down in later versions like their newest flood-light cameras (dammit!). https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fthemactep%2Ft... is a project that supports this and it has a good supported hardware list worth looking at. This will remove them from the Wyze ecosystem. There's a power injector sort of adapter that will allow you to (supposedly) provide power over the USB and get IP traffic from the USB port turning it into a sort of wired camera but I've not tested it - I did buy a few of the adapters to try when time allows. IF you do this all of the alerting and remote access setup will be up to you, it's obviously no longer symbiotic. Speaking of adapters - I've had multiple USB power adapters from Wyze die, using a good Anker replacement gets them back into service easily.

I like the form factor, I like the light gathering, I love the price (!), I own many of their cameras as well as some of their other hardware. I'd love to be able to buy one that was standards based out of the box even if it cost a bit more. I do NOT like that they screwed everyone with an infrastructure change and appear to have lied about fixing it. I want "local" 24x7 recording that doesn't rely on a damn SD card that can be stolen with the camera or corrupted. Wyze had beta firmware for some cameras that produced ONVIF streams (from memory..) but it was unreliable and not kept up - NOT recommended.

I have used one of the Ubiquity indoor cameras too. NOT worth the price, not good light gathering, and to stream to another NVR it has to be removed from their environment - don't do it.

Hope that helps some, I look forward to seeing what others have used. I know there's hardware similar to Wyze out there that may be more open and I think I have one in a box somewhere but I'm not sure it's as weather resistant and you get to handle all of the alerting etc. Frigate looks like a good NVR for this. BlueIris can alert too if you can get it sorted and they now screw around with pricing yearly if you want updates and I've yet to get their AI working so buyer beware.

P.S. I like the Dahua wired cameras - great low light, weather resistant, reliable, but rough firmware support, and I'd never let them talk to the 'net only to your NVR... Buy them from the vendor recommended on IPCAMTALK straight from China.

Closer to one third, we just had about another third or so not get off the couch.

Sugar?! You mean Corn Syrup right? Know why they don't use cane sugar? Tariffs on cane sugar to push corn by midwest farmers it seems.

They aren't real big on thinking into the future. See Solar and wind cuts. See pushing older experienced folks out of Govt into early retirement while firing the young ones - who needs expertise? Let's make these lower paying Govt jobs unstable so we can't get anyone to take them! You can cut off airplane engines midflight and it'll still fly too - for a while.

Let's ignore clean air\water regulations and get rid of people who monitor food production processes. Look at what they're doing with vaccinations, what could possibly go wrong in a few years? Tariffing everyone around while claiming they're going to build production here with hardware that has to be built elsewhere and imported? That's just big brains at work! We all know who pays those tariffs, but they sure are excited about that new income stream aren't they? It's a tax.

Falling birthrate, aging population, but we want to see GDP continue to rise? Let's kick out motivated foreign workers! Oh, you wanted them, to come in legally? How about funding the fucking system to allow that and streamlining it so people walking hundreds of miles with no money have a chance in hell making it through before starving. I've watched people marry citizens and "get legal", it costs them quite many thousands and they're usually on their 3rd kid by the time the paperwork clears - literally. I wonder how long it will be before we're bailing out farmers - AGAIN.

I agree. Sadly, software engineering is not engineering. Nobody, out side of safety critical systems, analyses the program structure and makes valid correctness claims for it as part of their quality process.

Software is at a stage that architecture went through before structural engineering really became widely adopted towards the back end of 19th century.

While we have pretty good tools these days that could do formal verification of our software, the process is incredibly time consuming. Moreover, all formal verification can ever do is show conformity to the specification. The specification can, of course, still be wrong. The move from the informal world of business to the formal specification of a system leaves a lot of room for mistakes.

How does a buyer of software know whether one piece of software is higher quality than another? Is there any real way for them to independently judge the quality of the code in most purchases?

My final thought to reflect on is that acceptable quality is enough quality and for most users that is reached fairly quickly. People will tolerate software that is really quite buggy. Games developers are actually giving us relatively deep insight in to that part of the economics. They still make money shipping games that are basically broken.

This point about game development is quite illuminating I think. The reason that most software is quite buggy is fundamentally an economic question - not an engineering question. Generally speaking, people are not prepared to pay for quality. They want enough quality that the software isn't a false economy - and we as an industry largely supply software of that quality.

It's one of these things I find online, especially talking to Americans, is this desire to believe in any wild conspiracy theory that crosses their mind.

A vast conspiracy within the Democrats to deliberately turn off their own power to hurt Trump's re-election chances is just laughable. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Who did it? How? and Why? I'm not convinced your why is good enough.

Between 160,000 dead American and him saying "it is what is" - he doesn't need a giant conspiracy to take him down. He can do that all by himself.

My state locked down just a few days ago. Georgia just now locked down after their governor realized it could be spread asymptomatic (funny since guess where CDC is headquartered). Florida, just locked down. Multiple states in the midwest STILL not locked down. Ask anyone in the medical profession what they're thinking. I know someone on a response team and he's had nothing but bad news increasing by the damn day and we are about 3 weeks from peaking. Prepare for a rude fucking awakening.

You've nailed it and me without mod points - thank you for laying it out so clearly. I missed the latest press rally and his comment about the exchanges, how does this man live with himself? We are so badly fucked and his sycophants haven't even realized it yet. This virus isn't going to check their party before infecting them and this man's legacy is going to be pretty terrible - for all of us. Be safe my friend...

Full attention?! The man was out holding rallies and playing GOLF! You know, that thing he claimed he wouldn't have time for if elected. He was being told declare a health emergency as far back as January but preferred to ignore the situation and cry hoax. Can this man not do two things at once? You've admitted he blew the response to this and the public officials who were dedicated to this task were all disbanded to boot. He'd gotten lucky to this point bullying any problem that came along but it turns out you cannot bully or payoff a damn virus, his luck has run out and so has ours.

There's a stack of bodies at this man's feet and it's disgusting you'd try to give him a pass. Don't be surprised if one of those bodies isn't a loved one of yours, you can pretty much bet most of us will know of someone who's died from this when it's all said and done.

Didn't he say he "knew it was a Pandemic" all along? History will NOT be kind to this man, nor should we.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2020%2F01%2F26%2F...

No, it's not a service but some asshats have built plug-ins that allow you to stream from torrent servers rather than watching from local resources. Kodi developers have been super pissed about this and don't allow discussion of it but that hasn't stopped people from developing them and even selling hardware with Kodi and this crap installed. But sure, the media people think it's Kodi who's at fault - morons every one of them...

So you mean the exact thing that Plex facilitates? Seems to me this has been done already so I'm not sure where you're going with this. JellyFin and Emby also manage to do this without issue.