Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon?

Re:Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon? by ashtonkem on Saturday October 02, 2021 @03:57PM (#28731520)

Possible. My personal experience is that these apps increased my anxiety significantly until I got rid of them. I live in an incredibly safe city, and yet they were making me feel unsafe.

So I replaced my ring with a more privacy protecting and social media-free alternative, because video doorbells are very convenient still.

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Re:Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon? by function_seven on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:07AM (#28735142)

You mind recommending your solution? I'm running a cheap Wyze cam in my front window (with a view of the porch, and RTSP firmware to stream to MotionEye) But it's still Wyze, kinda sucks, and I'd rather have an actual fisheye camera and doorbell rather than a creepy camera peering out the window.

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Re:Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon? by ashtonkem on Sunday October 03, 2021 @12:43PM (#28738478)

I’m using an Amcrest AD110 for my doorbell, and Reolink for external cameras. The Reolink cameras are PoE and behave nicely on my network. I’m also running a nicer network setup that lets me put these cameras on another vlan for security.

Currently I’m experimenting with Frigate as my NVR for object identification and clip tracking.

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