3 ms·

Why would it be so difficult to connect to locally? A company could drop a camera and a small NAS box, and have it all work over the local WiFi. I haven't loo

by e1ven 8y ago

Why would it be so difficult to connect to locally? A company could drop a camera and a small NAS box, and have it all work over the local WiFi. I haven't looked into it, but I suspect there are several vendors who already do this. It would get more complicated to support accessing it while away from home, admittedly. I don't know if that's an important feature for this application.

ASalazarMX 8y ago
> It would get more complicated to support accessing it while away from home, admittedly. I don't know if that's an important feature for this application. That's the killer feature. What good is a home surveillance system if you have to be there to use it?
- cordonbleu 8y ago
  i can drop a link right now that will let you look around at my driveway, if i get to know you better i could give you a login so you can see it works.
- mulmen 8y ago
  This feels like one of the huge benefits to true widespread adoption of IPv6. A firewall is still required but without NAS it becomes much easier to connect to individual devices on arbitrary networks from anywhere.
  - mulmen 8y ago
    NAS? NAT.
jbob2000 8y ago
> A company could drop a camera and a small NAS box, and have it all work over the local WiFi. If you setup a company to do this, you will quickly find you are a customer service and call center company, NOT a security tech company.
Mister_Snuggles 8y ago
> It would get more complicated to support accessing it while away from home, admittedly. I don't know if that's an important feature for this application. This is a huge feature which I've solved using an IPSec VPN. This is not something that's easy for regular people to do though, so it's not a universal solution. If someone made a router that could easily provision VPN access for a device (e.g., generate a sensible OpenVPN config or something) it would make this setup a LOT easier.
bradknowles 8y ago
Synology has IP camera support out of the box. For one camera. If you want more, you have to buy more licenses, which are only available from them. In hard copy form. And they take a week or more to arrive. Been there, done that.

by e1ven 8y ago

ASalazarMX 8y ago

> It would get more complicated to support accessing it while away from home, admittedly. I don't know if that's an important feature for this application. That's the killer feature. What good is a home surveillance system if you have to be there to use it?

cordonbleu 8y ago
i can drop a link right now that will let you look around at my driveway, if i get to know you better i could give you a login so you can see it works.
mulmen 8y ago
This feels like one of the huge benefits to true widespread adoption of IPv6. A firewall is still required but without NAS it becomes much easier to connect to individual devices on arbitrary networks from anywhere.
- mulmen 8y ago
  NAS? NAT.

jbob2000 8y ago

> A company could drop a camera and a small NAS box, and have it all work over the local WiFi. If you setup a company to do this, you will quickly find you are a customer service and call center company, NOT a security tech company.

Mister_Snuggles 8y ago

> It would get more complicated to support accessing it while away from home, admittedly. I don't know if that's an important feature for this application. This is a huge feature which I've solved using an IPSec VPN. This is not something that's easy for regular people to do though, so it's not a universal solution. If someone made a router that could easily provision VPN access for a device (e.g., generate a sensible OpenVPN config or something) it would make this setup a LOT easier.

bradknowles 8y ago

Synology has IP camera support out of the box. For one camera. If you want more, you have to buy more licenses, which are only available from them. In hard copy form. And they take a week or more to arrive. Been there, done that.