The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
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Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#2The question is: will they get people to actually buy Nest products anymore?
Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#3Recording still only available through their cloud service? No thanks fuckers.
Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#4For $200, you would expect to be able to use your camera as you wish and be able to record on the local network.
Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#5A question more out of unfamiliarity more than anything, but is the market for at-home security cameras really that large? Then to overlap that with the market that can afford to pay the $10+/month to support it, I would guess you run kind of low on customers?
I mean I guess not since the product is coming to market -- I just personally don't know of anyone who uses one.
Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#6For $200, you would expect to be able to use your camera as you wish and be able to record on the local network.
What...? it's not like Nest would ever shut down a service, leaving its users with nothing more than an expensive piece of plastic and silicon...
Anyone who buys this is nuts.
Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#7 A broader question I've had as I've been looking into these is: are there any low-cost alternative is that do NOT involve the cloud? I really don't want to send video from inside and outside my home across the Internet. I don't mind that I can't check it remotely. I'm more interested in giving my wife the ability to see what's outside without spending an arm and a leg or letting it go out onto the Internet.
Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#8A broader question I've had as I've been looking into these is: are there any low-cost alternative is that do NOT involve the cloud? I really don't want to send video from inside and outside my home across the Internet. I don't mind that I can't check it remotely. I'm more interested in giving my wife the ability to see what's outside without spending an arm and a leg or letting it go out onto the Internet.
Pretty much any other IP camera? D-Link has a range.
Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#9A broader question I've had as I've been looking into these is: are there any low-cost alternative is that do NOT involve the cloud? I really don't want to send video from inside and outside my home across the Internet. I don't mind that I can't check it remotely. I'm more interested in giving my wife the ability to see what's outside without spending an arm and a leg or letting it go out onto the Internet.
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Re: The Nest Cam Outdoor is a $199 camera with an easy-to-install magnetic base
#10A broader question I've had as I've been looking into these is: are there any low-cost alternative is that do NOT involve the cloud? I really don't want to send video from inside and outside my home across the Internet. I don't mind that I can't check it remotely. I'm more interested in giving my wife the ability to see what's outside without spending an arm and a leg or letting it go out onto the Internet.
I've used Foscam's for wildlife watching round our house. they have outdoor cameras that seem pretty robust and aren't too expensive, although their software is a bit basic. They work reasonbly over wireless or Powerline networking.
To overcome the software problems we use Sighthound to do the image recognition + storage. It's a local install on a PC/Mac no cloud needed.
One trick to note is that newer Foscam's send some telemetry stuff to the cloud but that's easily blocked with an outbound firewall rule.