Good luck. The one time I needed my Ring to perform (battery life shambles aside) was when my uncle's car was on my drive overnight. Next day it caught the postman, but no sign of the car moving - get home, car gone (uncle picked it up thankfully). Weird, and not great.
I'm feeling increasingly chilly towards those of my neighbors who have cameras pointing right out into the street. It's understandable that people want to point a security camera at their front door, but I dislike the feeling of being systematically tracked walking up and down the street which I get every time I walk past a camera pointing straight at me.
Check out Eufy. I'm not certain about how the protocol works with their phone app, but all videos are stored on-prem in a little appliance rather than in the cloud.
They are also one of the few to support Apple’s HomeKit secure video thing.
Unfortunately they got hacked a couple of weeks ago, and the attackers were able to get into users’ videos. According to reports on Twitter, this included users of the HomeKit encrypted storage. :(
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 33.5 ms ] threadI suppose this is just the way it is now.
It makes zero sense that these things are constantly uploading to someone else’s computer.
Unfortunately they got hacked a couple of weeks ago, and the attackers were able to get into users’ videos. According to reports on Twitter, this included users of the HomeKit encrypted storage. :(
It also replaces Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Photos, Docker, Media Stations, etc.
Heck I even scan directly to it from my scanner so I just scan everything now whether I need it later or not, since storage is so cheap.