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IP camera with lots of requirements

Aurath

Hi, I would think that someone around here has a suggestion about what I'm searching. I've spent lots of hours on this but I find nothing that meets what I need. I would think I'm looking for something that exists but now I'm not so sure.

 

I'm looking for an IP camera with those requirements:

 - motion detection that will automatically record to a NAS or FTP (like clips of 30 seconds)

 - provides live streaming that I can watch on my network

 - has to be wired, no batteries with a long cable at least 5 meters

 - it can be powered directly from the wall or PoE (I can manage with an AP with a PoE adapter)

 - better if it can work 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) or 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4) but I can manage if it is only 802.11g (Wi-Fi 3)

 - most importantly, I would like to put this camera in my door's peephole so it has to be small or it has to be made as a peephole's camera

 

Pretty much all I find is "doorbell camera", runs on batteries and it has to be outside because it also acts as a doorbell which is not what I'm looking for.

 

In the past, I bought this: https://www.phycams.com/collections/phylink-camera/products/phylink-plc-128spw-hidden-pinhole-wifi-camera-with-video-recording

And it works quite good (even though the image quality is bad), it comes with a web server so you can easily set-up motion detection, brightness, contrast, email alert when motion detection and record to an FTP but the big problem is that it heats a lot. At one point, it overheated and the image color was all wrong and a few days ago everything went black. I'm looking for something better.

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

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you can find most of these in a lot of cameras but the tiny requirement makes it almost impossible to find a reliable good quality one as no major brand makes them.

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That makes sense that the more smaller the camera, the less quality. I also read that the more smaller it is, the more it overheats which is probably why the first one I bought overheated and went dead.

 

I also found this: https://www.peephole-store.com/fixed-on-door/60-dc-1-cb-wifi-pb1.html

It's really interesting but absolutely no reviews. Anyone has any thoughts?

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about the smallest I can think of wold be a rasbery pie camera in the whole with the control board below.

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

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That is an awesome idea, looks like it might be doable with what I'm looking at the moment. I will research this further, thanks a lot for this idea!

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2 minutes ago, Aurath said:

That is an awesome idea, looks like it might be doable with what I'm looking at the moment. I will research this further, thanks a lot for this idea!

welcome, quotes or tags are nice to do, @Aurath

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

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GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

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Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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