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.
Have a look at Agent DVR. Works locally and the “pro” features that one would need to pay for are basically just Plugins. Everything else works nice without it. Additionally it accepts basically everything you throw at it camera wise and is far easier to configure than frigate, also has a (good) HA integration and is extremly mighty if your system grows over the years.
The mobile app is nice, but it also works fairly well in a browser on mobile.