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Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by shostack » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 8:46 PM UTC

yardie wrote: post #47

shostack wrote: post #36

Are there any companies out there making smart doorway camera and such like this that just work off your home wifi network, and can stream directly to your phone or store to local media (or cloud media like Gdrive, Dropbox, etc.) without requiring a subscription? I really don't want that data hitting some random company's server (setting aside issues with trusting other cloud storage providers), and I just don't feel…

You can already do this with a Synology, QNAP, G-drive, etc. and an IP streaming camera. Most of them have a hybrid cloud service where you get a URL to your NAS and can download files, run services remotely (torrent for example), or stream camera footage. And its been like this for years. Ring seems a little more polished. But I'd prefer the privacy of keeping that information on premise.

Are there any good tutorials out there on how to hook all of this up? Not super sure of the best thing to Google for this.

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by dba7dba » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 9:18 PM UTC

ec109685 wrote: post #49

dba7dba wrote: post #26

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All this cloud nonsense... One day someone will come up with an appliance type device that one can keep at home to act as the personal cloud environment. One day...

A NAS?

NAS that is stupid simple to set up. 99% people don't know how what NAS is...

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by harywilke » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 9:32 PM UTC

deepnet wrote: post #46

brbsix wrote: post #8

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It's a sad fact of life that people only accept tyranny from their government after first having accepted tyranny from their parents as children.

"Give me the child till the age of seven and I will show you the man." Ignatius of Loyola

There is an interesting documentary series based on that quote. Started in 1964 and every 7 years after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by joenathan » Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 2:54 AM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #29

joenathan wrote: post #18

Preordered the Doorbot, the first gen Ring doorbell, it was very buggy and unreliable, I would get maybe 1 of 10 rings on my phone. The second gen unit has been very reliable, and the video quality is night and day better than first gen. Although there can be a little lag of about 10 seconds or so from when the doorbell is rang till it rings on my phone.

My parents got one of these a few months ago. It's been very unreliable to the point where they decided to put back their old doorbell just to make sure they know when someone comes to the door. Been on the phone with tech support multiple times and they haven't really been able to help.

May be a WiFi issue, you need to make sure you have a solid WiFi network too. In a crowded neighborhood that can be hard to do.

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by yardie » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 4:15 PM UTC

shostack wrote: post #51

yardie wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can already do this with a Synology, QNAP, G-drive, etc. and an IP streaming camera. Most of them have a hybrid cloud service where you get a URL to your NAS and can download files, run services remotely (torrent for example), or stream camera footage. And its been like this for years. Ring seems a little more polished. But I'd prefer the privacy of keeping that information on premise.

Are there any good tutorials out there on how to hook all of this up? Not super sure of the best thing to Google for this.

The camera service is built-in. The Synology series is really good at getting you started. You don't need Google it has wizards that will walk you through it.

This is from a few years ago, but their cloud service consists of punching an outgoing port from your home or office and giving you a permanent address to access your files from. There were some backup synchro options as well but I only used streaming videos and music which I replaced with Plex.

Also it has SSH access if you want to install packages through that method.