Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?
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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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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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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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Anything that requires a subscription is a no-go. Especially when it's running on my hardware.
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Some are like six feet away and others are set farther back. It's not all of the ring came 5 that go off. I know there's a setting where the user can create a like a bounding box so that they don't go off unless someone is actually at the door... these folks simply haven't done that, don't know to do that, or are watching the sidewalk intentionally. At any rate, my street doesn't have much traffic so I usually just walk in the road.
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From what I'm given to understand of my state's laws, this would be covered under the same kind of thing as the surveillance cameras at a convenience store or shopping center parking lot and the expectations a person would have for their privacy... it just sucks.
