Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network

Re:Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood ne... by ponker on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:42AM (#24586905)

There is a big advantage of cloud based cameras and that is that the data is off premises and can't be just taken away on an SD card. Of course you could send video to your own server but that is beyond the capabilities of most users.

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Re:Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood ne... by 01100011 on Friday September 25, 2020 @04:18AM (#24587745)

I use 'rclone' and 'motion' to push video and images to my google drive account. If I wanted to, I could easily encrypt it first. I think it's superior to most cloud video providers. I don't think most LE agencies would think to check something like Google Drive for active video feeds.

I also delete anything over 3 days(thanks rclone) and use a script which detects the presence of either my wife's or my phone on our LAN so the cameras auto-start when we're not home.

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Re:Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood ne... by ponker on Friday September 25, 2020 @04:28AM (#24587805)

That's cool but accessible to about 0.1% of the population.

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Re:Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood ne... by sgerenser on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:52PM (#24591723)

It’s not any harder than using an ftp account with curlftpfs as a Dropbox replacement!

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Re:Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood ne... by seattletech on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:11AM (#24590624)

So a standard HN solution then

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