Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant

Re:Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital ... by el_benhameen on Saturday October 19, 2019 @12:49AM (#21296802)

I use Wyze cameras for baby monitors, home security, etc., and I’ve been pretty happy with them. They’re cheap enough that you can throw a camera at pretty much any idea. They are a cloud-based product so they come with all of the associated privacy concerns, but if you were using Nest then that’s maybe not a huge deal. Not affiliated with the company, just relatively pleased with the products.

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Re:Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital ... by the_pwner224 on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:12AM (#21297273)

The Wyze cams are very cheap and you might be able to use them locally as normal network cameras without any internet connection.

A year or two ago I looked into this and there was a 'jailbreak' to load different firmware onto it, but I think it stopped being functional due to updates. However, I have heard things about an official offline firmware being released by Wyze which you may want to look into.

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Re:Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital ... by icelancer on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:49PM (#21300682)

Awesome, that'd be huge. Only issue with them are the SD cards being the canonical place to store footage... so if the criminal (or weather event) destroys the cameras.... not so useful.

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Re:Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital ... by icelancer on Saturday October 19, 2019 @01:41AM (#21296963)

Same. I use their cameras and now their motion detectors. They are cheap and work well. Their IR filters jam regularly though on the cameras, giving everything a blindingly purple shade unless you just have IR/night mode on at all times. Small price to pay for the cost of the camera I guess.

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