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But you don't have to go sketchy off brand. You can get Ubiquiti if you want a really good system, or eufy or reolink if you don't want to muck about with the sysadmin stuff Ubiquiti requires
Yeah, plenty of options out there. I have a couple cheap Chinese type that aren't plugged in on any regular basis. Neat thing is that the accounts are basically by serial number if I recall from back when I set it up, so with them off my trusted net and the data fed put through a VPN to home base they're functionally ghost cams without a location attached.
Plus they can record to local SD, so if the server goes offline in the future they can work like a dashcam at least.
You can figure out approximate longitude and latitude using shadow angles and time of day/year.
Yeah, but if someone is going to that much effort to track down your feed (assuming it was outdoors to start with) then you're probably under investigation for something.
I've setup a Ubiquiti system. There are two things to know:
Now, I think those are acceptable tradeoffs, but I think we should be clear about its limitations.