Actually, it was outside that was vandalized, thus the need for wireless, battery-powered. If they break into the house, there are more valuable things to take than a 3U server that weighs 70 lbs.
My cameras use PoE because wifi devices tend to crap out after a while. The router can be fine for months and then one day need a reboot. I bought a 4k camera from Lorex that does color in low light levels. It does x265 encoding so the video files aren't too big. The files during the dead of night are like 60mb for an hour of video!
Vandals won't know to look for properly hidden small hardware like any of the many microPCs or a NUC. If you can't "disappear" one of those in any home you're not trying.
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Local server? (Score:2)
So next time the vandals can take the server too?
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My cameras use PoE because wifi devices tend to crap out after a while. The router can be fine for months and then one day need a reboot. I bought a 4k camera from Lorex that does color in low light levels. It does x265 encoding so the video files aren't too big. The files during the dead of night are like 60mb for an hour of video!
Hide the server (Score:2)
Vandals won't know to look for properly hidden small hardware like any of the many microPCs or a NUC. If you can't "disappear" one of those in any home you're not trying.