Matt The Horwood to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.commessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comMatt The Horwood to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square137fedilinkcross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.world
minus-squareOtterlinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoIs there no way to check the doorbell video locally? An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMorelinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoI don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know… Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
minus-square@MinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoObligatory https://reolink.com/ Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
minus-square@bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoIt mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
minus-square@MinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-25 months agoTBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant. But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho
Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?
An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
I would be very surprised if there was
I don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know…
Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
Obligatory
https://reolink.com/
Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
TBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant.
But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho