Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

LuckyCharmsNSoyMilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• Wisely@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I personally use Amcrest + Home Assistant behind a firewall, but that’s far from perfect. I’ve been interested in the new Amazon Blink cameras too, since they support self hosting (at least in some capacity). Still a bit iffy about them though, for obvious reasons.

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    • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the sad truth. Nearly every piece of hardware I buy that connects to my home network tries to make requests to the internet.

        I’m honestly getting so frustrated that I’m starting to treat 90s hardware with a bit of admiration. So what if a VHS camera looks like blurry shit. At least the data isn’t being sent to China.

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      • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d add smart TVs to this category too. I had a device get compromised on my network (QNAP NAS, not recommended), so I locked my network down pretty hard (UPNP partly the culprit). My Samsung TV began having problems. After a few rounds with customer support I realized I was running into a problem with a feature, not a bug. Then I disconnected my screens from the internet and switched to Apple TV. I figure at least then there is a little pushback to the data scraping. And FYI I saw the same thing with Amazon Fire that you did.

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  • PainInTheAES@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can flash the older Wyze cameras with custom firmware that has more self hosting capabilities but I haven’t tried it myself.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope Lorex doesn’t have a problem because that’s what I’m using.

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    • vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When in doubt, assume that it probably does. Use Wireshark to find all outbound traffic from your Lorex devices, and see what they’re talking to. There’s a good chance that they’re, at a minimum, fetching the time from an NTP server.

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AFIK they have some problems but not quite this bad. Maybe I don’t know all the incidents?

    I thought they sent the preview video without HTTPS. Same with a face preview, and most concerning an ID string of unknown intent with the face preview.

    I have a few outside and I’m pretty happy with them. The motion detection isn’t perfect, and you’d have to be lucky to read a license plate… but they are also pretty inexpensive.

    Unfortunately they are susceptible to a standard deauth attack.

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• Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mine is recording cats on our porch. We are always home and it doesn’t catch any audio that matters as we are rarely in the room where that window is. I would never have cameras pointed inside the house where I need privacy. Not even if I had it all hooked up to my own server the last thing I’d want is my private moments recorded lol. Freaking weird.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Our cameras point outside but the microphones are so retry sensitive and my office window is near two of them. I’m sure someone could hear my side of a phone call.

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