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So to avoid the risk of someone wardriving your neighborhood and hacking into your camera, it's better to...send all the data to China and trust them to protect it?
Sorry...was talking more about the ones I've run across that are directly accessible via WAN for remote viewing.
I was amazed at how easy it is, especially the software experience. The mobile app is easy, the web app is easy, RTSP is easy. If I want to add more camers and set up a server to record (like ZoneMinder) that looks easy too.
I was also getting sick of cloud-based 'smart' cameras that ping random servers in China, so we made our own 'dumb' cameras that are fast (Uniview hardware with our firmware inside).
If anyone here is interested, I will happily share more info. Always interested in product feedback.
Since someone mentioned 'declouding' here, my startup (well, scaleup now) makes a few privacy-first, autonomous (no cloud) video security products - on-prem video security hub, relays for automation, cameras. I was also getting sick of cloud-based 'smart' cameras that ping random servers in China, so we made our own 'dumb' cameras that are fast (Uniview hardware with our firmware inside). If anyone here is interested…
But then I need to figure out how to access the video streams.. from the network my computer is on that does have access to the outside world.
I'm a firmware engineer, so I haven't touched networking since my IT job in college.
I tore down an ankya brand device which had some fun features like setting up the wifi password by showing the camera a QR code
Since someone mentioned 'declouding' here, my startup (well, scaleup now) makes a few privacy-first, autonomous (no cloud) video security products - on-prem video security hub, relays for automation, cameras. I was also getting sick of cloud-based 'smart' cameras that ping random servers in China, so we made our own 'dumb' cameras that are fast (Uniview hardware with our firmware inside). If anyone here is interested…
This is exactly what I've been looking for. There's plenty of cheap RTSP and ONVIF compliant cameras coming out of china, but I trust them exactly 0%. I also don't trust us-based companies with remote access via their services. So I'm learning how to partition my home network to not allow the cameras on a vlan to not access the outside world. But then I need to figure out how to access the video streams.. from the ne…
If you decide to check it out, and feel free to ping me (email in profile). I am proud of these things, for the reasons you mentioned :)
https://monitoreal.com/pro/monitoreal-camera/ https://monitoreal.com/pro/security-assistant-spartan-i/ https://monitoreal.com/pro/monitoreal-relay/
I am using an Amcrest camera to watch my feral cat Bob B when I am not there. (I am working on him getting enough trust to walk around in the floor when I am there but it is still something he does every other day) I was amazed at how easy it is, especially the software experience. The mobile app is easy, the web app is easy, RTSP is easy. If I want to add more camers and set up a server to record (like ZoneMinder) t…
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Tesla's been caught doing similar things. The list goes on.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...