ATM my friend lives in an apartment where someone has the master key. We’re going to change his lock, but we want to put up some cameras just in case. My friend isn’t exactly wealthy, nor money conscious, so 360p / 480p cams that won’t just overheat and die is kinda the goal.
We can’t put holes in the walls other than something like a nail, so I’m going to rig up some command strip mounts. One will be in his bedroom, one in his living room, and if we can help it, on the peephole at his door.
If you’re looking for cheap cameras my suggestion is to find the old Playstation Eye cameras on Ebay. They cost 10-20$ or even less a piece and works much better than you might think. They work out of the box on Motioneye for the Raspberry Pi and have a metal base that allows them to be mounted on a wall if you stick a powerful enough magnet on it.
theres a binch but they have been selling like hot cakes sense covid no matter the camera its a mess firewire is left alone because of usability there are really good cameras that use the firewire interface
i cant tell if you will get a camera in a year from ali express
usb cams are going way over priced
even rpi cameras like above 40-50-60-70$ in the end
like a pcie 1x firewire+usb card there are alot of non focusing cameras to keep the background blury and looks slightly nicer with soft lighting making it hard to id the background
also adding a downward or forward blue/white light will help the camera w/o auto focus clean up faces and fine objects with in the focus
you can find cheaper laptops with a web cam and gut them then buying cameras
lvds and like cameras are not cheap because of trends companies making a quick buck on shit 1080 cameras
this current market is basically if you can wait on prices to drop do it other wise get gouged fucker
Yeah, I’ve used one for cheapo surveilance staying on for days and days and never gave me any issue. I think they’re the ones you’re looking for, given also the current situation.