I want a security camera system that I can trust to be only my own. My requirements are not hugely unreasonable, but I can’t find them the way search engines suck shit these days. I want a camera system with:
Local storage
No internet connection
No phone connection
No cables
No cloud storage option
No router necessary
And the option that seems impossible with the others: No option of remote connections
I don’t want to see whats going on in real time on my phone, I want a completely private recording saved if I ever need to see if I got robbed. I don’t want offline ability, I want cameras that can not connect to the internet at all, even through another device. I’m not worried about local network hacking, I want saved video that can only be viewed directly from the local storage. Longish life batteries so I don’t have to route power, and no cables that can be unplugged. Solar powered would be nice, but isn’t necessary.
Why is that so hard to find?
As you’ve probably seen you can buy semi dumb security cameras from Armcrest/Loryta/Empiretech/whatever that’ll run off of a barrel jack and/or Ethernet cable. Most of them have the option to insert an SD card and they’ll event log to that, at which point just don’t plug in the Ethernet cable except to manually pull recordings.
One other thing to think about is maybe consider “Frigate NVR” running on a pi or something and connected to cameras on it’s own wifi or Ethernet network that’s isolated from the Internet and your LAN. It’ll make local access easier because as with just about anything security related you’ll want to periodically check to make sure it’s actually working. You should be able to setup the pi to serve as the WiFi access point for all this.