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As long as it's within the retention period of the video data. It's nuts for Ring to store the data for 180 days. If I had exterior cameras, I'd store the data
by barbazoo 4y ago
As long as it's within the retention period of the video data. It's nuts for Ring to store the data for 180 days. If I had exterior cameras, I'd store the data for maybe a week?! However long I'd need to backup important snippets in case something happens, like a theft.
- shapefrog 4y ago> If I had exterior cameras, I'd store the data for maybe a week? Annecdata - but people I know who have cctv around their home store for as long as possible, limited only by the storage size availiable - every motion from a car / person / tree blowing through the trees - years of recordings. People are selecting 180 days on Ring as the retention period (if they could select longer they probably would), the default is 60 days.
- barbazoo 4y agoThanks for correcting me on the retention period. What realistic use case am I missing that would require 60 days let alone, 180?
- bell-cot 4y agoI'd assume that the dominant use case for both is "self-medication of anxiety and other personality issues". Though I'm sure there are seasonal vacation homes, abuse victims with restraining orders against ex's, zealous ornithologists hoping to catch a glimpse of some extremely rare species of bird, and more.
- kodt 4y agoPeople may go in vacation for 2-4 weeks and not even realize something happened until they return. Or without even going on vacation I had an expensive DLSR camera stolen and didn’t realize it for 2 months when I went to take it out of its case. Assuming I had a security camera in that room 180 days would have been useful.