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Re:The Red and The Black by mikece on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:23PM (#21917938)
True... but I've wondered how Wyze was making money on their $20 cameras with free cloud storage of events for 30 days. It's not exactly a free product but doesn't cost enough for what it does. I'm going to go unplug all of mine right now.
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Re:The Red and The Black by davrosthedalek on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:26PM (#21917962)
...or, flash them with an alternative firmware. https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
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Re:The Red and The Black by AnimalMuppet on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:33PM (#21918005)
> with free cloud storage of events for 30 days

That turns out to be the same as "give us 30 days to pull any information we care about from your camera feed" - unless they decide it's worth making a copy, in which case they have forever.

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Re:The Red and The Black by tehlike on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:25PM (#21917957)
See my comment above.

Their model was to sell smarter features as they build. In addition to this, apparently.

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