I bought a dropcam about ~9 years ago when they were a kickstarter or equivalent. I put my first dropcam in my room in a house I shared with roommates. I recommended it to my friends. It was dead simple. Plug it into your computer, configure it, unplug it from Mobdro your computer and place it anywhere with a power outlet.
~7 years ago I moved into a new home with my new wife. Took the dropcam with me and bought 2 more. The 2 new dropcams ended up having bad cameras. The video feed was really bad. Dropcam sent me 2 replacements and told me to keep the bad ones. Which I thought was cool. I ended up giving my 2 replaced dropcams with mediocre video away to 2 different friends to try out and told them how awesome dropcam was.https://downloadnox.com/
Meanwhile I had a kid. We put another dropcam in his room. It works better than a baby monitor. We caught his first steps on the dropcam in ShowBox our living room. I actually made a clip of the dropcam feed showing my wife freaking out about that and sent it to dropcam.
I got an email at one point from someone at dropcam saying that because I was a early supporter of dropcam I was selected to get free cloud recording for life on the 4 dropcams I was using.
About ~2 months later it was announced google was buying Nest.
About ~2 months later it was announced Nest was buying Dropcam.
It has been downhill since.
I just checked recently and my cameras aren’t recording to the cloud for 2 weeks like they used to be. Google is pushing a new product called Nest Aware. It’s going to cost ~$300 a year. For that price I can spin up a box in AWS on my own.
Which brings me to my point.
I am looking for IP cameras that can record locally/ push video to a remote server.
Any suggestions?
~7 years ago I moved into a new home with my new wife. Took the dropcam with me and bought 2 more. The 2 new dropcams ended up having bad cameras. The video feed was really bad. Dropcam sent me 2 replacements and told me to keep the bad ones. Which I thought was cool. I ended up giving my 2 replaced dropcams with mediocre video away to 2 different friends to try out and told them how awesome dropcam was.https://downloadnox.com/
Meanwhile I had a kid. We put another dropcam in his room. It works better than a baby monitor. We caught his first steps on the dropcam in ShowBox our living room. I actually made a clip of the dropcam feed showing my wife freaking out about that and sent it to dropcam.
I got an email at one point from someone at dropcam saying that because I was a early supporter of dropcam I was selected to get free cloud recording for life on the 4 dropcams I was using.
About ~2 months later it was announced google was buying Nest.
About ~2 months later it was announced Nest was buying Dropcam.
It has been downhill since.
I just checked recently and my cameras aren’t recording to the cloud for 2 weeks like they used to be. Google is pushing a new product called Nest Aware. It’s going to cost ~$300 a year. For that price I can spin up a box in AWS on my own.
Which brings me to my point.
I am looking for IP cameras that can record locally/ push video to a remote server.
Any suggestions?
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