Or shut them down, given the recent debacle with Amazon shutting down someone's account, disabling their devices in the process.

And here I am with my Eufy cameras...

In fairness is JUST bought the damned things right as all the drama was happening.

Of course they are against anything that threatens the dominance of wires.

Read a publisher called Wired

Look inside

No wires…

Tired: wired cameras

Wired: wireless cameras

No matter where you go, everybody's connected.

Exactly. There are legitimate concerns about whether law enforcement should be able to subpoena "third party" records (including video recordings) with a process less than a full blown warrant supported by probable cause, as determined by a neutral judge, or whether government should be able to compel the retention of records for a later after-the-fact search. That's a discussion worth having.

But voluntarily recording and retaining video means that the person who controls those records can choose to do what they want with it. Imagine if some homeowner had these cameras, and had their own home burglarized, and tried to turn over the video evidence of the crime, but the courts were like "whoa wait did you get a warrant for that?" It doesn't really change anything to have it be cloud hosted, or easily shared with a button, because that "share" functionality works for non-police recipients, too. Doorbell camera footage gets shared all the time on social media, sometimes because it's funny or interesting or otherwise worth viewing.

I just grabbef a generic IP camera, connected it over ethernet, and firewalled it so it could not make connections out to my home network or the internet. Turns out it just uses an mpeg stream for the video, so recording it is just a matter of running curl on a server. Any network camera that does not depend on a server should work fine for this type of stuff.

Sounds like a job for a raspberry pi.

I’m looking at Ubiquiti’s UniFi doorbell. It’s not cheap, nor really intended for home installation (it’s more like office grade stuff), but I already use their networking kit and run their software.

I heard some people on Lemmy talking about foscam for non-cloud cameras. They support onvif. Not sure if they have any in a "door monitor" form factor, though.

Look up the brand Intelbras they have a few residential intercoms that might work for you, I don't know where you are , but i know they exist the US and some parts of Europe and they might be cheaper there since they're a brazillian company (they're the best one we have I think?)

I have their regular câmeras and they fit all our criteria. Ours are online, buy ots by choice it's not a system requirement. At least a few years back a few of those intercoms with screens were compatible with the nvrs i believe.

To be fair, they are a security problem.

As an American, surely you should be much more concerned about what the US government can do with your information than what the Chinese government can do with your information.

After Snowden's efforts at showing what America was capable of nearly 10 years ago, I'm not at all interested in letting that country have my data

Ubiquiti, an American company.

There is a link in the last paragraph to a whole article about which video doorbells they recommend if you want that.

I have a Reolink doorbell. PoE or wired power, SD card local storage, onvif and rtsp support. There's a cloud (no subscription) but you can disable it if you want. I run it fully local with Home Assistant and Frigate NVR. Works like a charm.

As a live DIY system we use Jami (free), laptops, and webcams to monitor our property. We haven't tried recording for extended periods but with enough disk space extended recording could be accomplished.

Reolink or Amcrest or any other Ethernet hardwired ones with NVR that you can host in your house. No WiFi and no third-party/cloud storage ones like Ring or Nest.

ADT sucks for a ton of reasons. Fuck them.