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I'm looking to buy some security cameras for my mother in law. I currently have a small server with plenty of storage at my place that I'd prefer to use on at least a temporary basis to keep costs down. Are there any self hostable cameras that support a built in VPN? I currently use tailscale for my network but I'm open to learning something else. Alternatively, can they run over a tailscale subnet router? I don't use that yet but if I could place a cheap node in her place to help her access footage and my other services via subnet routing I'll do that too.

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[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Anything that is just local hardware can be saved or copied to an encrypted cloud drive of your choosing, via VPN if that's what you want.

You don't have to use a security cam system that hosts the cloud storage, or acts as a middle man between you and a live feed.

There are local systems that can host remote access portals too.

These things existed before things like ring or wyze...