Here's a good thread that recently came up on /. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/19/08/02/2129207/ask-slashdot-budget-friendly-webcam-without-a-cloud-service
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 5:28 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > Security cameras seem to be all the rage. Many WiFi issues, but also I’m > tired of seeing them stream up to the cloud and then back down to the > customer’s phone when he’s sitting in his living room. I understand when > they are away, they want to be alerted and shown a video of the UPS guy’s > butt walking away from the house. But it seems very wasteful of bandwidth > when the customer is at home, for the data to go > house-Internet-cloud-Internet-house. Or might go over cellular to the phone. > > > > Aside from the wasted bandwidth, there is a lot more to go wrong than if > everything stayed on their LAN. Less complaining about missed alerts, delay, > black screens, etc. > > > > Does anybody know of a system sold in big box stores that can easily be set > up to keep the video local, but still go over the Internet when the customer > is away from home? Or has everything become so cloud and Internet centric > that you can’t watch a camera 20 feet away without going to the cloud and > back? > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
