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Looking at replacements for our Ring

2026-01-22 00:20:03.512698+01 by Dan Lyke 6 comments

Looking at replacements for our Ring cameras. Everything else looks like running a bunch of new wire (POE for Ubiquiti), is just cheap (Wyze, already tried them), and the consumery ones are likely to go the "sell out to the cops" direction anyway. Sigh.

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#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-23 13:12:31.623914+01 by: DaveP

I use the TP-Link Tapo cameras. There is a mode in which nothing is uploaded to the cloud (because I didn’t sign up for their cloud account), but the video can still be viewed from the camera either from within or from outside our home network (they implement tailscale-like functionality in their app and cameras, I guess. Haven’t sniffed the network to be certain about that).

They’re not great, but they’re definitely not Ring, either.

#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-23 18:38:12.054858+01 by: Dan Lyke

Thanks. The otehr name that's coming up is Reolink.

I'm okay with a cloud connection, off-site storage is probably a good idea, but the whole point is that anyone with outside access is likely gonna abuse it. Sigh.

Aaaand, checking UTF-8-ness tweaks: 🤷💯🐝🍔

#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-23 18:47:08.831022+01 by: Dan Lyke

And trying this for UTF-8 fixes... 🍔🐝❤️

#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-23 18:50:22.741282+01 by: Dan Lyke [edit history]

Sonofoagun... ⭐️

#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-23 18:58:31.240002+01 by: Dan Lyke

Okay, hopefully I've fixed the UTF-8. Ugh.

#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-24 01:10:49.44874+01 by: spc476 [edit history]

Hopefully ... Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn ... maybe not.

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