Anybody use OBS to record wifi camera stream locally?

Just started setting up my first google nest battery cam, planning on using it as a driveway cam and buying the 10 meter cord to run it wired for 24/7 recording.

Nest offers a $12 / month plan for up to 10 days of 24/7 recording. Alternatively I found running open broadcasting software on a pc and recording the google home livestream from a web browser worked quite well at preserving my footage.

Caveat being, you need a pc you’d be willing to run as often/long as you’d want to be recording. But you could have one hell of a budget cctv quality wifi camera setup recording 24/7 without any subscription and storing the footage locally.

1080p 30fps I’m recording 24 hours of footage to just under 20GB of hard drive space. Potentially 50 days of recording on a 1tb hard drive, then obviously dumping footage to repeat as needed with archiving of important events.

Any Thoughts?

Obviously if it proves to be overly complicated I can fall back on subscribing to the nest service to manage my setup.

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February 25, 2023
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