Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras
Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras
They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
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What’s the alternative? Some China based brand? I mean seriously they did not name ANY alternatives. I’m an American and would rather be spied on by the home team.
Edit: a user corrected me that there’s a link at the bottom for recommended devices. Thank you.
As an American, surely you should be much more concerned about what the US government can do with your information than what the Chinese government can do with your information.
After Snowden's efforts at showing what America was capable of nearly 10 years ago, I'm not at all interested in letting that country have my data
Ubiquiti, an American company.
Appreciate the response. Checking their privacy settings on the app, Ubiquity seems to be the most privacy conscious.
Ubiquity stuff is entirely on-premises, their (optional) cloud service is strictly for auth and remote access. Highly recommended, not just for the privacy conscious. Their ecosystem is also relatively affordable (compared to Aruba and Ruckus) and a joy to setup and maintain. No subscriptions or recurring fees.
Yep just to tack onto this, I find their stuff is fairly easy to stack together as well. Have ended up building my entire home network and security setup with Ubiquiti gear, there's a good Home Assistant integration if you're into that.
Your footage is also stored locally
Can you reliably make it work without buying their router though?
I've been looking at them for a while but I don't want to be forced into their ecosystem.
You can run UniFi Protect on your own server, or use one of their appliances with it, just not as a router, akin to a Eufy HomeBase.
There is a link in the last paragraph to a whole article about which video doorbells they recommend if you want that.
Appreciate the response and am checking it out.
Yeah, I had the same issue when I was looking. I settled on Axis cameras headquartered out of Sweden.
My main criteria was I wanted something that didn't require the cloud and could be powered over ethernet. They're a bit pricey but the build quality is good. I don't have the doorbell one, but they do offer it.
Only downside is their free software utility is kind of limited and annoying to use and the main paid management software is geared towards businesses so you can't just buy it outright, their site directs you to call them and have a tech come out and "assess" your need. I ended up creating my own mini server running Blue Iris and I have an old NAS that serves as storage along with an onboard microSD.
I think this comment was supposed to be a reply to you. Just a heads up in case you haven't seen it since they seem to have accidentally made a top level comment instead of a direct reply to yours. Whoops!
https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/230158/-/comment/991728