Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comexternal-linkmessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1400arrow-down15
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minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·14 hours agoIs there no way to check the doorbell video locally? An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoObligatory https://reolink.com/ Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
minus-squaremelfie@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoLocal, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoIt mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-231 minutes agoTBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant. But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoI would be very surprised if there was
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 hours agoI don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know… Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?
An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
Obligatory
https://reolink.com/
Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
Local, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.
It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
TBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant.
But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho
I would be very surprised if there was
I don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know…
Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.