Hello Lemmy community need help wanting to find the best outdoor 360 camera that uses wifi by default but can switch to cellaur data if needed. Anyone have any good ideas?
Hello Lemmy community need help wanting to find the best outdoor 360 camera that uses wifi by default but can switch to cellaur data if needed. Anyone have any good ideas?
Don’t use wifi for any cameras that are used for security purposes, as an attacker can just use a wifi jammer to block it from the network. Get a good PoE camera instead.
I usually recommend the Dahua T5442T-ZE (https://a.co/d/gj2WclN) as a good outdoor camera with very good night time performance. There’s several in-depth reviews on IPCamTalk (I’d recommend reading their quick start wiki too).
You can save money with Reolink, but their cameras are lower quality and horrible at night. Dahua and Hikvision are the #1 and #2 camera manufacturers in the world.
Regardless of which brand you get, ensure you put the cameras on a separate VLAN with no internet access. This is for security reasons.
You’ll also need a NVR to record footage - either a hardware NVR from the same manufacturer, or software like Blue Iris or Frigate.
Thank you for this that camera isn’t to expensive. Will go through that site and read the reviews. I need to be able to access this camera remotly though. I live two hours away from some land I own. I have internet out there but the camera I have now (WYZE) won’t stay connected. How can do that without Wifi or secure data of some kind?