XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: invalid@invalid.net   
      
   On 7/17/2023 10:59 AM, Nick Agostini wrote:   
      
   > Is it possible to set up a security camera outdoors over wifi for around   
   > fifty to a hundred bucks?   
      
   If you want a super cheap camera an ESP32 cam may be the way to go.   
   It needs wifi but the ESP32 cam is prolly the cheapest setup possible.   
      
   Here's a  video of a guy walking through the ESP32 cam setup.   
   https://youtu.be/RCtVxZnjPmY   
   (715) How to setup and use ESP32 Cam with Micro USB WiFi Camera - YouTube   
      
   However they're crap. They're like buying a dancing bear on the cheap   
   (it's not how well the bear dances, but that it can dance at all).   
      
   An advantage of a real camera is to catch license plate numbers.   
      
   Those services that save in the cloud (such as Wyze, Nest, and Ring) tend   
   to blur out the license plate numbers for a reason unknown to me, but as a   
   result, they're often not useful for security cams that face the road.   
      
   However, that little ESP32 camera does not have the resolution or speed to   
   capture the plate number anyways.   
      
   A 4k video camera would be nicer, or a still camera with even better   
   resolution in motion-detector mode. But they're prolly more than $100.   
      
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