Friendly Neighborhood Computer man
Well, start with what you have, and let that guide your needs.
I started on my own windows xp machine. Before moving to a nas for image storage. Now, I have nextcloud running on a separate machine. With Arch documentation is very good where most services will be turn key. Especially if you don’t mind downtime. The best thing is get to know your setup. As that will be uniquely your setup, and let that guide your journey into madness 😄
I have reolink cameras and they were pretty plug n play.
HA picked up the reolinks once connected, but integration with frigate requires some setup. The frigate HA integration works very well.
Oh and for notifications to work well… Or how you expected to work. Having the mqtt server setup will help as well.
I have modoboa Running on a 8gb droplet for 20 a month. Hosting over 10 domains. No issues, smooth transition on upgrades.
Exactly… If you lose internet connection is just stays local until you reconnect.
Phone, browser, desktop…