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    Get rid of your Ring, Arlo, Tapo, Blink (or other cloud cameras) and reclaim your privacy!

    Ok, I thought I had read that before and that there was a threshold where it made more sense to include proper hardware.
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    Get rid of your Ring, Arlo, Tapo, Blink (or other cloud cameras) and reclaim your privacy!

    I have had some friends ask about non-cloud solutions that do not require an NVR and have remote access. What are people using for SD card cameras and how is remote access achieved?
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    I decided to ditch Ring and made my dumb doorbell smart with Hubitat and Blue Iris

    I think I got it. I turned off Anamorphic. It seems it did its thing after that.
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    I decided to ditch Ring and made my dumb doorbell smart with Hubitat and Blue Iris

    I kept getting "ghost" alerts with no one in the capture. Apparently the girl across the street is too short to be in frame when ringing the doorbell... I've decided to try rotating the camera to corridor mode, but I can't get it to update in Blue Iris. It looks fine in the GUI. I had no issues...
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    Get rid of your Ring, Arlo, Tapo, Blink (or other cloud cameras) and reclaim your privacy!

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    Your liberty : OS level age ( and soon ID ) verification ! 2026+

    I'm this many.
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    Ring Cameras Simply Suck - Its catered to a specific population / demographic and its really not funny | New Ring Outdoor Cam Pro

    Not to mention they can use your device to track who comes and goes on your property.
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    I have not. I took the path of least resistance and effort.
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    I have a Unifi gateway, so I was able to use Teleport (Wireguard) through their Wifiman app. All I did was generate a link in the settings on my gateway, emailed that to my phone, then the app did the rest. I didn't need to set anything up, and there aren't really any settings in their app, just...
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    How do I keep my iPhone from turning off VPN?
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    I decided to ditch Ring and made my dumb doorbell smart with Hubitat and Blue Iris

    My daughter and her friends always tend to gather on the front porch, so I was constantly needing to snooze my Ring motion notifications when they're outside. This is why I went with the doorbell press, for now. I may look at adding motion later on when there's less little people running around...
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    I decided to ditch Ring and made my dumb doorbell smart with Hubitat and Blue Iris

    I could have installed the Shelly in parallel, basically just using it as a sensor, but I thought it best to use its relay to set off the chime when the button is pressed.
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    I decided to ditch Ring and made my dumb doorbell smart with Hubitat and Blue Iris

    Technically, yes. Pressing the doorbell button closes the contacts in the Shelly, causing the chime to go off. The Shelly itself does not trigger BI. Hubitat is monitoring the Shelly and when it sees its state change to ON, then the rule sends the HTTP trigger to BI for the snapshot. From there...
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    I decided to ditch Ring and made my dumb doorbell smart with Hubitat and Blue Iris

    I know there are probably discussions about this all over, but I wanted to share my recent experience and what worked for me, in case anyone else is considering ditching their Ring, Arlo, Nest, etc doorbell. I have been wanting to get rid of my Ring doorbell for a while, but I just couldn't...
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    How do you help your neighbors with recommending and installing cameras?

    I mention dash cams all the time, and the usual response is "I need to get one", but no one ever does. Next thing you know they get rear ended by a semi on the interstate. If people only knew how crappy all of the other solutions are, not to mention the security risks and them being able to...
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