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What I don’t understand is why people are putting internet connected cameras INSIDE their house. How do indoor cameras, that catch somebody already inside your house, make you safer? Why not just get door and window sensors? Outdoor cameras make a bit more sense but a hacker could still use info about when you are home or similar against you.



> why people are putting internet connected cameras INSIDE their house

- To monitor the animals in the house

- To get alerts if a smoke alarm goes off

- In case of break in, to capture the person's face and get a notification

- Access historical and real-time feed to check when <event> happened

- Etc

In an apartment with no other security system, a single indoors camera can do these. (In a house, you're better off with a complete security system since you have control over both indoor and outdoor configuration of your residence.)

The alternative is time consuming and potentially less secure, though much more fun to play with:

- Set up a raspberry pi-based camera system that can be scaled to multiple cameras and sensors

- Set up an raspberry pi NextCloud instance for the cameras to save their feeds to

- Set up an ML algorithm to recognize faces, animals, and types of noises

- Set up a Twilio instance to send SMS notifications

- Set up a mail server to send email notifications

- Set up a back up system in case the sdcard on one of the raspberry pis gets corrupted

- Set up a Home Assistant instance to control the cameras etc

- Set up an Auth mechanism for your residents and guests to control the IoTs

- Harden any systems that are exposed to the internet as a result of this set up




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