FOSS IP Cam Firmware?

[dv]

Snowblower got stolen.

So, OpenIPC is supposedly a FOSS firmware for IP cameras: https://openipc.org

But it's definitely a work in progress. Anybody know of a similar project that's more mature?

Otherwise my current plan is RTSP-compatible IP cameras, a firewall so they can't phone home, and a script running on my NAS to encode/capture the output.

[Jehannum]

I'm just running 3 dahua cameras that are on a VLAN with no internet access. I'm tinkering with zoneminder on my server as an RTSP NVR, but it's not going wonderfully (it soaks up a lot of cycles on the server's GPU, which can be problematic when I'm using it for HTPC stuff).

I use the camera settings for capture (to NFS), and rotate the footage on a 10 day rolling window (via cronjob on the server). Currently the zoneminder setup does not do any analysis or storage, it's purely for aggregating streams when I want a quick look at what's going on outside the house.

[LCGuy]

Interesting, I’ve got a couple of older Cisco 4500E HD cameras that lack ONVIF support, wonder if this will work on them and bring them into the modern age. I’ve had a CCTV system in my apartment for years, initially set it up because I worked in the industry and needed a system at home that ran the same software we used at work so that I could experiment and test stuff without putting a customer’s system at risk, I no longer work in the industry but I still have it in order to discourage family members (my family is weird, for the love of God don’t ask) from sneaking in and doing weird shit when I’m not around. I’ve got a VM running Milestone XProtect Essential+ which I know I’ll need to migrate to something else at some point since it’s been discontinued, while I’ll probably have to migrate eventually for now it does the job.