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Re: Peeple Is a Smart Peephole to Upgrade Your Door with Caller ID

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Post by hasenj » Mon, May 18, 2015, 7:04 AM UTC

Wouldn't it make much more sense to have a device that allows you not only to see who's at your door, but also talk to them directly?

If the only thing you get is to see a picture of the event after-the-fact, I'm not sure that's so useful.

I think it's a terrible under-utilization .. if that's the right word ..

Re: Peeple Is a Smart Peephole to Upgrade Your Door with Caller ID

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Post by Sir_Substance » Mon, May 18, 2015, 7:43 AM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #14

sb23 wrote: post #3

It sends every picture to a server somewhere before sending the push notification. Not sure I like that very much.

Well whats the other alternatives? Sending images to devices on a shared network, or having a server in your house/phone which receives the images. All of them are quite unpractical, most people don't know how to setup a server in their home, heck most people won't know how to even forward ports (hence UPNP in CPE/SOHO routers). Running a server on your mobile device isn't an option on all platforms, many cellular IS…

>Well whats the other alternatives?

Use a DHT to find your phone's current IP and send it point-to-point?

Re: Peeple Is a Smart Peephole to Upgrade Your Door with Caller ID

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Post by petemc_ » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:49 AM UTC

Do they not have any regular doors they can put this on to take their pictures?

Re: Peeple Is a Smart Peephole to Upgrade Your Door with Caller ID

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Post by dogma1138 » Fri, May 22, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #26

dogma1138 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well whats the other alternatives? Sending images to devices on a shared network, or having a server in your house/phone which receives the images. All of them are quite unpractical, most people don't know how to setup a server in their home, heck most people won't know how to even forward ports (hence UPNP in CPE/SOHO routers). Running a server on your mobile device isn't an option on all platforms, many cellular IS…

> Well whats the other alternatives? E-mail. An ftp server.

email isn't any more secure than their solution, heck it's probably less secure. FTP again insecure, FTPS/SFTP maybe but 99.9% of user don't know how to setup an FTP server and it's again goes back to the problem that then you need a server hosted somewhere which is a limitation that will kill the potential market for the product.