I recently bought a house and it came with a Ring doorbell. I dont care for it. I would of never bought one. I do have additional Wyze cams though for my blind spots and the back of the house. I definitely dont ever want to see activity back there.
The Wyze cams app is somewhat similar to the Ring app you can see videos people share with Wyze but thing is they have to email those videos in. Wyze says they End-to-End encrypt videos they upload to their cloud. If you dont trust them you can buy surveilance SD cards and use those instead. For $20 a pop though they are great. I only use them facing outside my house. I only put one facing the inside when out of town.
My alternative was going to be Raspberry Pi Zero W's and EyeMotionOS if anybody is interested in alternatives. Only reason I didnt get those is cause I couldnt decide on the camera to get and also I had a suspicious person (realize now they were likely just lost) stop partially on my driveway. So I bought a bunch of Wyze cams.
Another neat thing about thr Wyze cams is they shove an AI into a $20 camera to detect people. Their video on the matter can be seen on YouTube. It is impressive.
How do you route power to those Wyze cams though? And just so you know, they send their video to the cloud as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they send it to China in fact.
They take power from a usb plug. You can flash the camera and use it as a plain streaming 1080p camera ( you can't return it to being a Wyze cam after that though ).
That'd also remove person detection and force you to record everything though. Hardly desirable. I only want it to record when there's something worth recording.
The Wyze cams app is somewhat similar to the Ring app you can see videos people share with Wyze but thing is they have to email those videos in. Wyze says they End-to-End encrypt videos they upload to their cloud. If you dont trust them you can buy surveilance SD cards and use those instead. For $20 a pop though they are great. I only use them facing outside my house. I only put one facing the inside when out of town.
My alternative was going to be Raspberry Pi Zero W's and EyeMotionOS if anybody is interested in alternatives. Only reason I didnt get those is cause I couldnt decide on the camera to get and also I had a suspicious person (realize now they were likely just lost) stop partially on my driveway. So I bought a bunch of Wyze cams.
Another neat thing about thr Wyze cams is they shove an AI into a $20 camera to detect people. Their video on the matter can be seen on YouTube. It is impressive.