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Some (maybe most or all) of these devices require an external service to be used. That means it will work as longs as the service exists. You are in the hands o
by marcodiego 2y ago
Some (maybe most or all) of these devices require an external service to be used. That means it will work as longs as the service exists. You are in the hands of the vendor. My dream is to make devices like this and make them remotely accessible through Tor; that way it can be fully local but remotely accessible from anywhere in the world.
- idunnoman1222 2y agoWhy did you throw Tor in there?
- marcodiego 2y agoBecause that gives me independence with a decentralized service.
- roywashere 2y agoExposing a service to tor is actually useful as a way to circumvent NAT issues
- fimdomeio 2y agoThe other option would probably be a vpn.
- atum47 2y agoI have a 6 dollars month VPS on digital ocean that I use for everything. Host my website, send server events to my devices, socket connections...
- amluto 2y agoA lot of cheap Chinese cameras work just fine without ever being connected to the Internet. Look for ONVIF.
- Sean-Der 2y agoONVIF is getting WebRTC [0]! So you will be able to use it in your LAN (or over ) without using proprietary middleware :) [0] https://www.onvif.org/specs/stream/ONVIF-WebRTC-Spec.pdf https://www.onvif.org/specs/stream/ONVIF-WebRTC-Spec.pdf
- amluto 2y agoChallenge for open source developers: make a nice system for using this feature without connecting the camera to the Internet. :)
- stavros 2y agoI bought a few Reolink cameras (around $50 each) and they have pan/tilt and don't require the internet. In fact, I didn't even connect them to it, I connect to them via my Tailscale VPN and they support this mode explicitly, and work perfectly (obviously real-time notifications don't work).