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What are some alternatives to ring cameras? (lemmy.world)
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I live alone and my neighbor found some drunk and/or high folks trespassing on my property while I wasn't home the other day. I want to put up cameras as a safety thing, but I hate Ring.

I'm a broke botch rn too, so the subs for the cameras or whatever can't be crazy.

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[–] 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Reolink is easy to DIY, has sane privacy policies if you want to use their web services, and they support self-hosting your own streaming + recordings if you don’t.

They’re the usual rec in these threads, and with good reason.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    So there's no subscription? I might have to look into one. We had one from Seeing, which which we found at a bin store and figured we'd try. It worked fine, but after a year they wanted a subscription fee so we gave up on it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    The subscription is only if you want cloud backup of recordings as far as I'm aware.

    Mines blocked at the router but I unblock it when I go on holiday. Can still view SD recordings. Never had any issue.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I think they offer cloud, but no, once you buy the camera you can either have it on a local server to store video which they also sell, or just have it on the local network with smartphones able to use an app to monitor it from anywhere. Or, just have them not connected, and pull the storage card when you want to see captured history (a pain, but doable). I've only used the lower tier, and they're not too bad. Can't say if the higher priced ones are a lot better or not, but they do offer a lot more features.

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