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> 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,
by 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.