I’ve never used either, so I can’t speak to their actual quality, but cheaping out on cameras defeats the purpose of getting cameras if the footage is too grainy or blurry to be used for anything.
can these be configured to stream TO a remote frigate server?
Example: I’d like to install one at my parent’s house, connect it to my parent’s wifi, but have it stream to frigate, that’s hosted on my server in another city?
i had frigate running locally and could integrate them. That said i grabbed the stream from the local network. I guess you would need some sort of local pi to forward the streams. But that is well above my pay grade ^^ sorry
Reolink. Cheap, good enough quality, great HA integration, no internet connection needed.
Reolink cameras are twice the price of the Tapo ones in my area…
I’ve never used either, so I can’t speak to their actual quality, but cheaping out on cameras defeats the purpose of getting cameras if the footage is too grainy or blurry to be used for anything.
And probably four times the quality. If I could go back in time and choose Reolink for every camera I have, I would. In a heartbeat.
+1 they are completely local, cheap and have a tight integration with home assistant, I have 5 of their cameras.
can these be configured to stream TO a remote frigate server?
Example: I’d like to install one at my parent’s house, connect it to my parent’s wifi, but have it stream to frigate, that’s hosted on my server in another city?
i had frigate running locally and could integrate them. That said i grabbed the stream from the local network. I guess you would need some sort of local pi to forward the streams. But that is well above my pay grade ^^ sorry
Yeah, I’ve already heard about such a solution, where I’d need a Pi that acts as the streaming client, which then should work with any camera.
apparently it’s possible without a relay look here