Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/disarm or lock/unlock

Re:Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/... by ryandrake on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:47PM (#17093580)

It’s so silly, too. I played around with a Dropcam (I think that’s Nest now), and the fact that it uploads all the video data from my LAN over the internet to their server, only to immediately download it back to my same LAN for viewing is beyond ridiculous. It is a device that should work entirely unplugged from the internet, but here we are...

I get that the internet is used for controlling the device remotely, but those of us that don’t need that feature still have to pay the price of bandwidth waste and round trip latency. Mind bogglingly bad design.

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Re:Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/... by cptskippy on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:35PM (#17094098)

> the fact that it uploads all the video data from my LAN over the internet to their server, only to immediately download it back to my same LAN for viewing is beyond ridiculous.

So you think the primary use case of a dropcam is for local live stream viewing? I would argue that's a boundary case at best.

I think there are pros and cons to both local and remote storage.

Streaming to the cloud is a much simpler solution. The device doesn't need local storage. The device doesn't need to run as a host to serve up streaming video to multiple clients. By removing storage and reducing processor needs and software complexity, you can make a much simpler and more reliable product.

By keeping storage remote, you're better preserving evidence from tampering or destruction.

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