For the average home owner I doubt a stolen NVR is real high on the threat list.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 5:51 PM Daniel White <[email protected]> wrote: > Problem with NVR's though is if it is a burglary... you can easily walk > away with the evidence. If the video is in the cloud... you have it up > till they destroy the camera or internet connection. > > [image: photograph] > Daniel White > Co-Founder - Business Development & Operations > phone: +1 (702) 470-2766 > direct: +1 (702) 470-2770 > Ken Hohhof wrote on 8/20/19 16:39: > > Good point about the NVR. Having one camera stream directly to the cloud may > sound like a good idea, but what happens when you start adding cameras, > inside and outside the house. An NVR gives you local storage and viewing > for all the cameras, but still allows notifications and remote viewing. I > guess the privacy aspect of having all your security cam video "up in the > cloud" somewhere won't bother people if they're already OK with Alexa and > Facebook and Google snooping on them. > > It used to be people would buy an NVR system with 4-8 analog cameras and an > Internet connection on the NVR, now I see the kits are coming with digital > cameras, some are WiFi, some are POE. But getting people to run Cat5 cable > is sooooooooo difficult these days, unless they have the electricians wire > the house for data while it's being built. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Andrew Haninger > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 4:32 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] home security cams (Nest, Ring, etc.) > > 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 <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected]http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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