I 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 o

I 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.