• @shalafi
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    417 hours ago

    Wish I had never got one. In my ignorance I thought I could stream it like any other camera, just needed to know the protocol. They make one like that?

    • Nate
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      715 hours ago

      You’re looking for reolink stuff, just about the only ones that are still real ipcams and not IoT cloud spyware

    • @[email protected]
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      817 hours ago

      Samsung is the only one I know of that is not proprietary networked and has Foss Firmware. Avigilon and Axis both phone home (Though they’re contact is at least contract specific) and generic Chinese have tons of records of phoning home without informing users.

      It’s a pretty big problem in the security industry. Camera’s are notoriously insecure unless you make them so. Air gaping with local storage is best.

    • @Death_Equity
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      517 hours ago

      There are a few options on self-hosting doorbell cameras.

      Full self-hosting a Ring doorbell is a bit of a bother and you might as well go another route and have a POE security system with storage. You can’t easily divorce your Ring from the company’s control.

      • @toynbee
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        216 hours ago

        I like my Reolink for this purpose.

    • Mike D.
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      116 hours ago

      There are many of you dive in a little and are comfortable with technology.