Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 7 hours agoMy cameras have local network access only. Most people who are tech savvy enough to set up their own storage are also able to block Internet access for security cameras.
But another big concern for externally mounted cameras with microsd cards is the confiscation of those cards. They are are very easy to remove, often without tools.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Which cameras do you use?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
TP-Link (which are cheap but so unreliable I had to add smart switches to reset them when they stop working), Foscam and Dahua. Duhua is by far the best. All of them record to a local server running Home Assistant and Frigate.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I really need to set up frigate. Been procrastinating for months 😐
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Frigate is a marvel. Setting it up and tweaking it does take time but once done it requires almost no maintenance (at least in my experience) and is close to flawless. It’s only had 1 false alert in the last year and that was caused by a spiderweb on the camera. I wish all my applications were as trouble free.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I hope its not one of the 32 TP-Link cameras that have unpatched auth flaws allowing malicious actors to reset the admin credentials in them.. This is a local exploit, so you’re probably okay, but these exploits could be used in concert with others to compromise your security/privacy.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
The cameras have no Internet access at all. Someone would already need access to my network for this vulnerability to be a problem.