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  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    5 months

    Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

    An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work

      • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 months

        It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?

        • MinFapper@startrek.websiteEnglish
          5 months

          TBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant.

          But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho

          • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5 months

            That sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network.

            The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.

      • TunaLobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 months

        The last time I looked at time I missed something. I want to use my existing chime and have it also use that power supply as a power source. Turns out the battery one does that! I missed that months ago! I was going to get a Ring Pro or whatever to get it to do that! This is so much better! Moving up the todo list now!

      • melfie@lemy.lolEnglish
        5 months

        Local, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
      5 months

      I don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know…

      Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.