POE Advice

[matt1 (Skinah)]

@ptmuldoon

Another camera I was leaning towards are the Amcrest ones here.

https://amcrest.com/poe-ip-cameras.html

I ended up buy the Amcrest after checking it out thanks for mentioning them.

I wrote a binding for my camera here

IpCamera: New IP Camera Binding

This binding is now merged into openHAB 2.5.9 and newer. See below for more details on what each brand of camera has working as often choosing the right camera will save you from needing to purchase an extra video server (both the cost to purchase the server, plus the ongoing electricity costs) to process the video feeds. Features for Generic cameras with only RTSP (no snapshot url): Snapshots (jpg) can be created from RTSP with low CPU overhead but requires non stop network traffic to keep …