Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?
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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.
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I've got a bell, spring, and pull handle. It's genuinely amazing
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I did that for about 6 months, mostly to see how good the detection was in frigate (new 0.15.0 release last week, fyi) when I first got it running but the novelty wore off.
I see people in line at the grocery store watching their family watch TV in their living room. That's creepy to me.
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And self hosting can also be cheaper, unless you're a huge consumer of the service. How many people watch enough Netflix to make the sub cheaper than buying the media instead? We cancelled Disney Plus and bought the few series they like and we've already saved money.
Economies of scale are absolutely a thing, but I think there's a sweet spot where self hosting can be cheaper for a lot of people.
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it’s a camera pointed at a public street.
It's a camera pointed at every person who comes to your house.
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the loss of privacy of a camera looking out onto a public street.
The loss of privacy of a camera that records every face that enters your home and timestamps that data...
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I think you only need the controller or phone app for setup or config changes. Though it is easier, in my opinion, to just run a controller. You can (at least last time I checked) still self host one if you like. If you’re just doing network config and monitoring, you don’t need much in terms of performance.
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They also wouldn't have noticed that they hadn't installed it. Honesty in the best policy.
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