Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras
vector_zero@lemmy.world 9 months agoI 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 9 months ago
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 months 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 9 months 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.