Fwiw I use a fork called Apollo because it enables a headless setup

You got it! Best of luck with the baby

There are multiple wifi-connected solar powered cameras that will do the motion-activation, IR night mode, etc. thing that you’re asking for, that you can just drop into a location, but they won’t be self hosted.

Unfortunately pretty much everything you’d self host takes time and finagling, it’s just the price of privacy/independence. I know you’re asking for a self hosted solution but that will be difficult with little free time. I’ve been running frigate for a year and I still can’t get some object detection masks to properly ignore detections.

You’ll want to be running frigate, a self hosted nvr solution.

Camera wise, you’ll probably want a power over Ethernet (poe) amcrest or hikvision camera for continuous video to be sent to the nvr to do the detection. A list of recommended hardware is found here.

I’ll be honest though, depending on where this is you might be better off with a non-self hosted setup. For example, reolink makes several battery/solar powered wifi cameras that record on motion, shooting notifications to your phone. No cables to run

The only annoyance I’ve had with it is searches will sometimes default to another language, even though I set the language to only return English results.

Also, I’ve found that the image/map search capabilities are less performant than googles.

But I still use it because the search results are so clean and no-frills.

Read the rest of my post, asshole.

This type of pointless snark

Pot calling the kettle black here. Chill out, they were trying to help.

You wrote a post with a title that their comment helps with, no need to be a jerk, and maybe consider more specific titles that capture your actual ask.

It’s currently akin to a post titled “how do I invest in a 401k?” And having the actual ask be the logistics of logging into vanguard.