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Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by JohnFen on Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:32PM (#21349879)
While I think you're exaggerating the difficulty of doing this without involving an external service, I fully acknowledge that it's easier to have someone else take care of the whole thing.

But that convenience comes with a cost.

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Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by rtkwe on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:37PM (#21350635)
The most difficult part is making sure the connection to fetch recordings when requested by a person using the app is reliable. That needs the server or your phone to be able to contact the NAS on the other side of your ISP and your router. That's hard and a headache to trouble shoot compared to just having the camera stream to some central server.
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