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Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum
www.dexerto.com/entertainment/flock-camera-controversy-explained-as-viral-halloween-de-flock-campaign-gains-momentum-3399710/
Now do Ring cams.
U got any good alternatives to recommend? I was given a ring camera as a house warming gift, one of the nice flood light cam ones. Want to get away from ring but also don’t want to buy more crap LOL but I want to add a camera to the rear of my house and refuse to have ring recording me on my patio nor do I want to up my subscription. Keep migrating toward self hosting my camera system as the best solution but fuck I also don’t have the time to go setting that up right now … Rambling here but in search of good advice 🙏
Reolink
Specifically their PoE model. You can record to any ONVIF capable NVR, like Frigate, and restrict access to the feed to only the local network or your own VPN. No sending all your video feeds to a third party that grants the police access.
Replying to @weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
Or UniFi, Hikvision also Akuvox for doorbells/intercom
Yeah this is always been my problem. I kind of do want CCTV cameras on my house because I do live in a sort of high crime area, but I don’t see why I should have to pay a subscription to a company just so they can train an AI on my camera footage.
I’ve always been a fan of UniFi products. You keep the data, handle it how you will.
ReoLink appears to keeps things off the cloud. But their doorbell cameras do not support rtsp or anything, its something proprietary. But regardless, they appear to use some form of ddns to allow the camera to stream directly to your phone without going through the cloud.