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  • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyztoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldCams, anyone?
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    4 months ago

    The problem is that it can only be speculated how they work, because they have not published it. That is quite suspicious in my book.

    I personally would avoid reolink and use rtsp + frigate + ha, to have full control with known open source selfhosting solution.

    I understand that people like the easy setup, but if you already do selfhosting, it isn’t that big jump.


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    4 months ago

    Be careful with reolink, their P2P solution is pretty suspicious. No body really knows how it works and who it shares the data with.

    You can disable those features, but it will stop reolink app from working.

    They have never explained how the peer-2-peer network works, and it security and privacy is quite unknown.

    Reolink is Chinese, which doesn’t really help these concerns.

    Better to selfhost frigate and just rtsp cameras there.







  • I would suggest more learn by doing approach. Learning OSI model etc is nice, but it is quite jargon :)

    Use some old PC as a server, and get some network cards into it, and use it as firewall/router. Route your home network/NAT/DNS/DCHP through it. Raspberry Pi’s are nice, but their hw is still bit limited.

    OPNSense is quite nice and easy free and open source firewall/router solution.

    If you want to add bit of flexibility, you can use some virtualization platform like VMware in to the machine, so that you can run OPNSense in it, with some other virtual servers.

    Then when you get things working, you can start looking in to VLAN’s, because they are quite important part of enterprise networking. Most cheap switches nowadays support VLAN’s out of the box.