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I was working on a similar think a while back [1]

I was living in an apartment while building my house. My idea was to have a camera making a time lapse video with the secondary effect of being able to be accessed by me from the internet so I can take a look at how the crew was doing. Unfortunately every single ideia that I have is already had and developed by anybody else. In this case, china. Ali express have some pretty good cameras that does that and more; with a better finish then a 3D print shitty case...

1 https://youtube.com/watch?v=5E7_40PWqiQ



Some (maybe most or all) of these devices require an external service to be used. That means it will work as longs as the service exists. You are in the hands of the vendor. My dream is to make devices like this and make them remotely accessible through Tor; that way it can be fully local but remotely accessible from anywhere in the world.


A lot of cheap Chinese cameras work just fine without ever being connected to the Internet. Look for ONVIF.


ONVIF is getting WebRTC [0]! So you will be able to use it in your LAN (or over ) without using proprietary middleware :)

[0] https://www.onvif.org/specs/stream/ONVIF-WebRTC-Spec.pdf


Challenge for open source developers: make a nice system for using this feature without connecting the camera to the Internet. :)


I have a 6 dollars month VPS on digital ocean that I use for everything. Host my website, send server events to my devices, socket connections...


I bought a few Reolink cameras (around $50 each) and they have pan/tilt and don't require the internet. In fact, I didn't even connect them to it, I connect to them via my Tailscale VPN and they support this mode explicitly, and work perfectly (obviously real-time notifications don't work).


Why did you throw Tor in there?


Exposing a service to tor is actually useful as a way to circumvent NAT issues


Because that gives me independence with a decentralized service.


The other option would probably be a vpn.




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