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  • Don’t use wifi for any cameras that are used for security purposes, as an attacker can just use a wifi jammer to block it from the network. Get a good PoE camera instead.

    I usually recommend the Dahua T5442T-ZE (https://a.co/d/gj2WclN) as a good outdoor camera with very good night time performance. There’s several in-depth reviews on IPCamTalk (I’d recommend reading their quick start wiki too).

    You can save money with Reolink, but their cameras are lower quality and horrible at night. Dahua and Hikvision are the #1 and #2 camera manufacturers in the world.

    Regardless of which brand you get, ensure you put the cameras on a separate VLAN with no internet access. This is for security reasons.

    You’ll also need a NVR to record footage - either a hardware NVR from the same manufacturer, or software like Blue Iris or Frigate.




  • By “switching entirely to HTTP”, do you mean Server-Sent Events, or do you mean polling? I havent tried 0.18.0 yet, but in general polling can end up using far more resources unless you’re doing something clever like passing the last update timestamp to the server and only querying the DB for new content since that timestamp (and timestamps are indexed in the DB).