I’d like to host this on the Ubuntu Linux box in my home office and put a camera in my living room. Would like to be able to monitor the camera from an iPhone, and have it auto record on motion detection.

For external access though, I don’t have a domain name registered, and I’d rather not have one. I’d be happy to access this just using my external IP address. But I don’t know how “static” the IP address from my ISP is. (My router gets it via DHCP, but I don’t know how long those leases are, or if it re-uses the same IP when renewing.)

Edit: Also what is a good camera to use? Seems like a lot of these cams require registration with some shady service and their own app to view them. Which means that all of that is running through their hosted service, which I am trying to avoid.

  • emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I actually just set something like this up using sentryshot and a random IP camera my dad had laying around. The docs are kinda sparse but it was simple enough to get the camera set up. It supports motion and object detection in software and I think you can set it to just record on one of those events but I haven’t messed with that at all.

    Edit: for remote access I’d recommend either wireguard or tailscale. I use plain wireguard without having a static IP and haven’t had it break yet but your mileage may vary.