You could just add a small nonvolatile buffer to each camera if it’s not wired, such that if it loses connection with your home assistant server it will start recording. With 720p video and a 64gb flash storage you could, depending on encoding, store well over a day of footage. (Napkin math so could be wrong)
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Many cameras only save recordings based off of motion triggers, so 64 gb goes a long way if most of the time there's no movement.
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The simple solution here is to record to flash when wifi dies. Yes wired stuff is nice but half of these are consumer installed.
certainly record to flash, but you need to have notifications when the camera can’t be contacted/when storage would be theoretically getting full
that does open you up a little though: recording on device means the attacker can just destroy/steal the camera which is pretty easy because they, by definition pretty much, are in a place that’s trivial for an attacker to access
*Starts microwave open*
Someone said jamming?