Watching my cats from anywhere with Tailscale

Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

I have a couple of cameras around the house to keep an eye on the cats when I’m away. The ones I use are Reolink E1 Zoom cameras. They work entirely offline, no cloud account required, no mandatory app sign-in, just a camera on the local network. The limitation is obvious once you leave the house. If the camera is only reachable on 192.168.0.x, remote access usually means either handing that job to Reolink’s relay service or exposing something on your own network. I wanted neither.

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Watching my cats from anywhere with Tailscale