Building a Better Dog Camera Part 1 - Raspberry Pi with NixOS

I'll say up top that this part was unfinished before I moved on to my second attempt. So think of this more as a collection of notes rather than complete instructions. On this page Last year I wrote about self hosting dog cameras using Frigate. At the time I was using a TP-Link Tapo camera and had to write a whole section on securing the cameras by firewalling them off from the internet. I've been longing for a solution where that wasn't needed. Then Benn Jordan had a video on the security risk of cameras: Maybe you should just have a realistic discussion with your family members about the risks you’ve just heard about versus the odds that cameras would actually be useful to you... but if you ask me my opinion, with the way that we seem to be plunging into authoritarianism and considering the sad state of cybersecurity, I’d say that having a cloud-connected camera from a tech conglomerate makes you significantly less safe. He also suggests if you still feel you need a camera to feel…