Privacy friendly baby monitor
Looking for the most privacy respecting baby monitor available. Doesn't have to be overly complicated, just the ability to watch a video feed from an app on my phone. It's a must have from the wife, so trying to find the best option and accepting some losses in privacy is likely necessary.
Jeena
in reply to MajorMajormajormajor • • •I think video is very unnecessary, audio is the most important and there are great ones which don't use the internet or even WiFi but a different radio signal like https://a.co/d/3YAxSzw
If she really can't do it without video then I'd buy a ubiquity one because they work without internet connection if you set them up like that. Then only you can access it. But they are quite expensive especially the ones with 2 way audio.
bl4kers
in reply to Jeena • • •Orvorn
in reply to MajorMajormajormajor • • •Frigate NVR
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in reply to Orvorn • • •ratel
in reply to MajorMajormajormajor • • •Baby Monitor E110
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in reply to ratel • • •Daaric
in reply to MajorMajormajormajor • • •For inspiration I'll describe our setup:
We have a TP link TAPO camera, it sits on a VLAN without access to the internet. We can access and watch it through home assistant. There's a custom integration that allows for some control of the camera including motion control, motion and noise detection, though the basic integration should be fine by now for just the video and audio feed.
Since we have some notification set up when the motion or noise is triggered, we don't need to have the video feed open all the time (it even pops up on our Kodi TV). Though, we do use an old spare android phone as a dedicated baby monitor, but we're not tied to using just that one.
This is stationary for our home though and the initial setup of the camera does require internet connection, but after that... It all lives locally.
We also do have a cheap TrueLife video baby monitor, closed loop, with a dedicated receiver unit, but that is more of a travel solution. No fancy function, just video and audio feed from the camera to the parent unit. The range of this thing is rubbish th
... show moreFor inspiration I'll describe our setup:
We have a TP link TAPO camera, it sits on a VLAN without access to the internet. We can access and watch it through home assistant. There's a custom integration that allows for some control of the camera including motion control, motion and noise detection, though the basic integration should be fine by now for just the video and audio feed.
Since we have some notification set up when the motion or noise is triggered, we don't need to have the video feed open all the time (it even pops up on our Kodi TV). Though, we do use an old spare android phone as a dedicated baby monitor, but we're not tied to using just that one.
This is stationary for our home though and the initial setup of the camera does require internet connection, but after that... It all lives locally.
We also do have a cheap TrueLife video baby monitor, closed loop, with a dedicated receiver unit, but that is more of a travel solution. No fancy function, just video and audio feed from the camera to the parent unit. The range of this thing is rubbish though...
And when we don't need video feed, we use regular Motorola PMR walkie-talkies, one of them (on the child side) in VOX mode. Any baby monitor can only dream of its range and battery life...
So, that's our setup in a nutshell. If you'd like to know more, feel free to ask 😉
Thomas
in reply to MajorMajormajormajor • •@MajorMajormajormajor
You can also try #ChildMonitor
GitHub - enguerrand/child-monitor: Android-based Child Monitor
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in reply to MajorMajormajormajor • • •Child Monitor | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
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