I assume this is a fixed installation. What you are asking for is like asking for a battery-powered ceiling lamp with wifi control, and then wondering why nobody does that.
Get a cam supporting the ONVIF standard and PoE, and run an ethernet cable to your home server. Which can do the rest.
If you really need to, you can let a RPi do the home server job, and install it next to the cam and a battery pack, and you got a fine solution. (If you think batteries and wifi are even remotely fine for a fixed installati
The summary cut off my submission, but they need to be battery powered and wireless due to distance from my house. If I could do any sort of wires or PoE there are a ton of solutions that'll suffice.
Your problem is that any WiFi camera will need a lot of battery power. You'll be out there every single day changing the batteries, there's no way in hell you'll be able to just put in a 9V battery every six months (or whatever).
That's probably the reason you can't find one - no market for something so troublesome to use.
What are you and barefoot taking about? There are plenty of battery powered motion activated security cams out there, like ring or blink. They do not have local storage support though.
Man the people left here in slashdot are completely out of touch with technology.
Did you miss the first sentence in the summary, where it says I'm looking for a camera that'll dump the videos to a local server? We are all aware of cameras that dump the videos to the cloud.
No I did not miss it. My point is that saying battery powered wireless WiFi cameras exist and you guys apparently think they do not with all your you need to change batteries all the time!!1! comments. The reason that local storage is not available is a separate issue and is due to camera makers wanting to charge you a monthly fee. A company can certainly build a camera like we wants but they do not because they want to make money off the service not the hardware. And yeah there is probably a camera with wh
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Why a battery? Why wireless? That's pointless. (Score:2)
I assume this is a fixed installation.
What you are asking for is like asking for a battery-powered ceiling lamp with wifi control, and then wondering why nobody does that.
Get a cam supporting the ONVIF standard and PoE, and run an ethernet cable to your home server. Which can do the rest.
If you really need to, you can let a RPi do the home server job, and install it next to the cam and a battery pack, and you got a fine solution. (If you think batteries and wifi are even remotely fine for a fixed installati
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Your problem is that any WiFi camera will need a lot of battery power. You'll be out there every single day changing the batteries, there's no way in hell you'll be able to just put in a 9V battery every six months (or whatever).
That's probably the reason you can't find one - no market for something so troublesome to use.
Re: Why a battery? Why wireless? That's pointless. (Score:-1)
What are you and barefoot taking about? There are plenty of battery powered motion activated security cams out there, like ring or blink. They do not have local storage support though.
Man the people left here in slashdot are completely out of touch with technology.
Re: Why a battery? Why wireless? That's pointless. (Score:2)
Re: Why a battery? Why wireless? That's pointless (Score:-1)
No I did not miss it. My point is that saying battery powered wireless WiFi cameras exist and you guys apparently think they do not with all your you need to change batteries all the time!!1! comments. The reason that local storage is not available is a separate issue and is due to camera makers wanting to charge you a monthly fee. A company can certainly build a camera like we wants but they do not because they want to make money off the service not the hardware. And yeah there is probably a camera with wh