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As I posted in another comment, DLink has the right idea with their WiFi cameras. They've got all the IoT goodness - an app that lets you view from anywhere, e
by Mister_Snuggles 11y ago
As I posted in another comment, DLink has the right idea with their WiFi cameras.
They've got all the IoT goodness - an app that lets you view from anywhere, etc. But they also function perfectly if they're not allowed to access the internet and expose their video stream in a standard way. It's the best of both worlds.
I've set up my cameras on a WiFi network that can't talk to the outside world. If DLink goes out of business, everything will keep running as though nothing has changed.
- ethbro 11y agoThis kind of marketing is what needs to be trademarked (a la WiFi Alliance). Where one of the stimulations of using an IoT mark is clearly differentiating on the packaging what functionality is "unconnected" and what is "connected", and then having graceful degradation. The larger problem is that the code behind most of these embedded devices is the most atrocious copy & paste & hack from StackOverflow just enough to get it working, then shipping.
- Mister_Snuggles 11y agoI agree, this would be ideal. Knowing what the product does when the cloud service inevitably goes away is a good thing. I get the impression that some part of DLink understands that this is a feature that some people want. Even the people who design the packaging have made vague references to not requiring the cloud service. It's not spelled out as clearly as I'd like, but that might come in time. As for the code quality, I honestly have no idea. I've had a couple of them running for months on end serving an MJPEG stream to a computer running 'motion', only powered off when they needed to be moved around. They do what I need them to without needing any babysitting.