you can use power-over-ethernet for a pi. there's shields for it and you can even do it for a pi zero if you so wanted to.
Home security system
Owen Morgan
Nolan Gutierrez
was meant for
fucked up because tor
Camden Brooks
Use motion only store images no videos save a ton of space
Nolan Brooks
I know Zig Forums will hate this suggestion, but just get a network motion detection security cam with free cloud storage. If you seriously care that much about your empty porch/yard being monitored by glowniggers then... don't.
Jaxon Thompson
Look at all these monkeys
Cooper Williams
Does anyone actually know how usb cams stack up against other camera types? Like power draw, reliability, etc.
Alexander Diaz
youtube.com
This video might be something to consider
Elijah Torres
ffmpeg can multiplex mjpeg streams together. Get a set of cheap POE cameras, and on a server, multiplex 1 hour + 1 extra minute of feeds into a single timestamped file for overlap. You can do this using cron at the beginning of each hour, also use the 'find' command to delete files older than x number of hours.
Jackson Baker
Against IP cameras? USB 2.0 is left in the dust with its 480 megabits per second max throughput. USB 3.0 is competitive with is 5 gigabita per second max throughput.
Another factor to consider is that the physical transmission restraints often associated with Ethernet, and USB. Ethernet almost always is a balanced signal on a twisted pair, and can be rebuffered by switches. USB can not be rebuffered easily, and its signial is often unbalanced. Of course, this is ignoring video over twisted pair, which uses baluns to balance the analog or digitial video signal for transmission to an encoder. Hypothetically, USB serial can be given the same treatment.
Gavin Diaz
Put Motion on an SBC and have fun. It's stupid simple.
Neither a Raspberry PI nor a webcam is going to last a decade of regular usage, though.