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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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