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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Wisely@lemm.ee 1 year ago[deleted]
PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 1 year ago
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I hope Lorex doesn’t have a problem because that’s what I’m using.
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.
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.
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.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
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.
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.