Right, I have two cameras from Y-cam, because the company has decided to not supply what I paid for those two cameras will shortly be gone.

The cameras detected movement and uploaded the footage to the cloud, where I could watch it. All fine and good, but I want my own system to do it.

So I was thinking about buying some half decent motion-detecting IP cameras, connecting them to a cheapo PC in a box (or an old laptop), connecting that to the internet, and syncing any saved clips to Google Drive. With whom I have a 2TB storage limit (plenty). Once on Drive I can view them anywhere. I don't need movement notifications or anything, just recordings of any movement the cameras get.

As you can imagine this is DIY boffin territory so I'm a bit nervous. The IP camera side should be easy enough, it's the computer bit that puzzles me. Can I do this by doing something like connecting the cameras to a raspberry pi? Or do I need something a bit more complicated?

I've found some interesting software that should do it, I just don't know how small I can make the hardware. I thought about the Raspberry Pi because it's tiny and I could chuck it into a box and stuff it in a wall somewhere, away from burglars.