Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?
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Hm. I’m not sure.
I know they expose rtsp or rstp or whatever protocol, so maybe you could wire something up to record off the stream.
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Well, after we put in our cameras, the cops did come knocking to investigate a shooting across the street.
As I explained to the cops: "The cameras trigger on motion, not sound, and they're only pointed at our property, not across the street. No records."
Cops left after that.
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Or HomeAssistant with Frigate
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They released their NAS product(which is just a NAS, no apps). You can archive selected footage to it or some cloud providers. You can also back up a NAS to another NAS either at the same location or remote.
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If I don't control it, I won't install it.
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Blue Iris will use pretty Much any cameras including Ubiquiti, has a mobile app for viewing and alerts, and has self hosted AI object recognition using code project. Its entirely off the grid if you want it to be.
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How close are the front doors? I live in a pretty dense city and I've never heard them go off like that.
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I got a Eufy doorbell cam years ago because you can do local storage, but I think in 2022 or 23 they were called out for not being fully encrypted, iirc it was the thumbnails for push notifications that weren’t being properly encrypted.
And that somehow also turned into a realization that Eufy was using those thumbnails to build a facial database because each face had a unique ID in the metadata.
I should really switch away but haven’t had the money, hopefully soon.
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Same. I went with them as a “good enough” option when I needed cameras because I have had a good experience with Anker products, but they’ve slowly enshitified to the point that I’d drop them in a heartbeat if the budget was there.
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Except they can do the same thing without opted into a massive surveillance system that tracks your comings and goings and hands it over to the government to be used against you.
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Anything IoT-related is more difficult and/or expensive without the cloud. Why? Hmm…
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Everything related to consumer IoT is more expensive and/or difficult to implement as a local-only service.
But that doesn’t make any sense. Why would cloud access make anything cheaper?
Hmmmmm
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I have a sign that says "Shout to enter".
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I should really switch away but haven’t had the money
Why just not ditch the doorbell camera altogether?
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Been eyeing this. I have older unifi internet equipment, and with a recent wifi radio purchase, I realize one seems to need their cloud key or gateway products now
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90% of it is idiots reporting deer/coyote sightings or falsely reporting fireworks as "gunshots?!?!" at 1:00am. If have literally been woken up by stupid Ring notifications more than by the fireworks themselves.
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I don't think single party technically would cover that. The neighbors would have to be involved in the interaction to give themselves permission to record it.
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it's so funny to see people on lemmy who fell for cloud connected cameras. you'd think this group would be the last to fall for it, maybe not. i've even received them as gifts (very expensive ones) but i just threw it in the trash because that is better than anyone using it.
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Anything that requires a subscription is a no-go. Especially when it's running on my hardware.
