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It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras | Benn Jordan (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

You can see what's happening while you're away. Ideally it would only turn on when the normal occupants aren't home. I wanted one when we were out of town and our security system triggered a movement alarm inside. Outside cameras didn't catch anything and a cop came and looked around but didn't see anything. I'm guessing the motion sensor picked up on the curtains moving or something.

Otherwise, it's pretty handy for proving that you told someone something 3 weeks ago to win an argument. /s

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah I have one for the living room that should be able to see anyone coming in from all the doors around the house. I only turn it on when away, and of course my cameras store everything locally.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    and of course my cameras store everything locally

    That's the biggest thing. Just store (and access) footage locally.

    Being able to view the cameras remotely is a nice idea in theory, but it raises so many privacy concerns. Just not worth it in most cases. How often would you actually open some app and actually look at the remote video feed?

    No, it's best to just skip that feature and be local only, with no internet connection at all.

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