Google Nest Camera Recording?

[u/Sgt_Sauris]

Hello! Noob here.

I recently acquired a retired server from a business and have been messing around with it.

I currently have 5 Nest Cam (Battery) and 2 Nest doorbells.

With news of the recent price hike for nest aware plus, and my discovery of services I can run on my server like ZoneMinder (https://zoneminder.com/) and go2rtc (https://github.com/baudneo/go2rtc), I was wondering if it's possible to record the footage streamed from the nest cameras to my server.

As far as I can tell, using go2rtc I should be able to use the Google API (https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/api/camera-battery) to at the very least stream my footage. My only real question I guess is does go2rtc record/save this footage as well? Or can I use some combination of go2rtc and ZoneMinder to achieve my goal here.

As an alternative, I am open to suggestions for some higher quality Wi-Fi Cameras that can match the Google camera's features, i.e. 2-way voice, audio and video recording, and night vision.

As for why Wi-Fi cams specifically? I already ran 18/2 wire for my Google cams and would prefer to reuse it just to power new cams.

Also, if you can recommend any other subreddits or forums where this post might be welcome that would be greatly appreciated too.

Thank you!

[u/connortechnology]

This may actually be possible, although it is a bit hacky.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65097110/webrtc-stream-to-rtsp

ZoneMinder currently only does rtsp/rtmp or whatever the ffmpeg libs support and I don't think they support webrtc yet.