I’d like to host this on the Ubuntu Linux box in my home office and put a camera in my living room. Would like to be able to monitor the camera from an iPhone, and have it auto record on motion detection.

For external access though, I don’t have a domain name registered, and I’d rather not have one. I’d be happy to access this just using my external IP address. But I don’t know how “static” the IP address from my ISP is. (My router gets it via DHCP, but I don’t know how long those leases are, or if it re-uses the same IP when renewing.)

Edit: Also what is a good camera to use? Seems like a lot of these cams require registration with some shady service and their own app to view them. Which means that all of that is running through their hosted service, which I am trying to avoid.

  • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.dayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I will agree that my advice is bad.

    I myself run all my services over wireguard. But I run ssh natively though but with extra hardening (fail2ban/sshkey/no default port/max retries, etc). Plus my IP changes every 24 hours. However, I did learn how to setup online services and this can be a stepping stone.

    If one is experimenting, exposing the port is fine (temporarily). But if someone is running a service 24/7 over the internet, and the person does not have any cyber security acumen, wireguard is the clear winner.