Building a 24/7 Home NVR Using Frugal Hardware and a Raspberry Pi 3 Bridge How to transform a 10-year-old Dell laptop and a 7-year-old Raspberry Pi 3 Wi-Fi bridge into a robust, high-efficiency security camera NVR for 2018-era legacy IP cameras using Linux systemd services, FFmpeg, Proxy ARP Wi-Fi bridging, and frugal engineering principles. The Core Philosophy: Frugal Engineering ("Just in Time …
