Yes you can, if you can afford a Ring+subscription you can afford to get NVR+4 cameras and install them. Reolink even has doorbell cams that you can add to the NVR.
Generic onvif/rtsp cams are a dime a dozen and work with any NVR program that supports open standards. We’re talking $30ish for stuff that’s weatherproof, wifi, some with backup batteries, pan tilt zoom, 2 way audio. Cheap indoor models are like $20. It all runs locally if you install one of the several free NVR programs on a computer on your LAN.
You just lost 95% of people with those words. Ring and other cameras are popular because they are simple for the general population to setup and use, not because they are the cheapest. This place is such a bubble of people who think the entire world thinks just like them.
Well then maybe you should whine to DeathsEmbrace that they are wrong for only complaining about the price then.
I never claimed it was easier and you shouldn’t assume that was my claim or had anything to do with what I was saying. You’re literally just making up things that you think I said so that you can get mad about it.
If DeathsEmbrace had said that setting up your own is harder, I literally would have said yeah, it’s harder. But that’s not what they said. They said it was unaffordable. And you seem to agree with me that it’s not, since your point is that it’s about ease of use and not price - which is exactly my view.
Jesus, get offended a little? I’m just stating that setting up all the things you said is not feasible for the general population and that is why Ring is so popular. Vast majority of people will trade privacy and cost for convenience all day long. I’m not making up a single thing. I don’t know one person in real life that would know any of the shit you said, let alone set it all up by themselves to save a few bucks. That’s why they pay more for Ring. It’s easy and just works.
This place is such a bubble of people who think the entire world thinks just like them.
Your attitude notwithstanding, you’re literally the one who came in hot acting like you’re enlightening us with the revelation that the cheaper open source alternatives are harder to set up. No shit. If you haven’t invented the idea that I’m saying it’s just as easy, then how do you figure that we live in a bubble when I literally agree with you? Spare us the condescension, please.
Jesus, get offended a little?
You’re literally doing the “triggered?” meme where you behave like a jerk and then act surprised when people don’t put up with it.
I’m literally not. This community always acts surprised when the world uses these devices like they are idiots for using them. “Just setup this open source thing instead” is always thrown around as if it’s something you just plug in and use. My comment is explaining why the world doesn’t use them. And your comment is a perfect example because you use so many words and acronyms most people wouldn’t understand nor care to understand. Stop acting like it’s so easy to do and everyone around us are idiots for using devices like Ring.
You are the perfect example of someone who is knowledgeable and gets offended when everyone else doesn’t know. I see it so so much in the community. Being a newbie is rough because the knowledgeable are often assholes and act like we are stupid for asking questions. I also see a lot of bad documentation that expects you to be a veteran programmer to understand. Even if these people wanted to dig in, you guys don’t often make it easy for them.
You are the perfect example of someone who is knowledgeable and gets offended when everyone else doesn’t know
So you saw me use some acronyms and then projected your idea of an unhelpful knowledgeable person onto me. That shit is so annoying dude, knock it off. If you go around assuming bad faith of everyone just because they know shit, then you’re only causing yourself to have the experience of nobody wanting to help.
Stop acting like it’s so easy to do
You’re literally making this up. Again, I never claimed it was easy to do. You’re just so eager to hate on a certain community that you’ve decided anyone who appears to know anything is automatically an unhelpful asshole. And it’s making you an annoying asshole.
Not everyone can afford cctv
Yes you can, if you can afford a Ring+subscription you can afford to get NVR+4 cameras and install them. Reolink even has doorbell cams that you can add to the NVR.
Generic onvif/rtsp cams are a dime a dozen and work with any NVR program that supports open standards. We’re talking $30ish for stuff that’s weatherproof, wifi, some with backup batteries, pan tilt zoom, 2 way audio. Cheap indoor models are like $20. It all runs locally if you install one of the several free NVR programs on a computer on your LAN.
You just lost 95% of people with those words. Ring and other cameras are popular because they are simple for the general population to setup and use, not because they are the cheapest. This place is such a bubble of people who think the entire world thinks just like them.
Well then maybe you should whine to DeathsEmbrace that they are wrong for only complaining about the price then.
I never claimed it was easier and you shouldn’t assume that was my claim or had anything to do with what I was saying. You’re literally just making up things that you think I said so that you can get mad about it.
If DeathsEmbrace had said that setting up your own is harder, I literally would have said yeah, it’s harder. But that’s not what they said. They said it was unaffordable. And you seem to agree with me that it’s not, since your point is that it’s about ease of use and not price - which is exactly my view.
Jesus, get offended a little? I’m just stating that setting up all the things you said is not feasible for the general population and that is why Ring is so popular. Vast majority of people will trade privacy and cost for convenience all day long. I’m not making up a single thing. I don’t know one person in real life that would know any of the shit you said, let alone set it all up by themselves to save a few bucks. That’s why they pay more for Ring. It’s easy and just works.
Your attitude notwithstanding, you’re literally the one who came in hot acting like you’re enlightening us with the revelation that the cheaper open source alternatives are harder to set up. No shit. If you haven’t invented the idea that I’m saying it’s just as easy, then how do you figure that we live in a bubble when I literally agree with you? Spare us the condescension, please.
You’re literally doing the “triggered?” meme where you behave like a jerk and then act surprised when people don’t put up with it.
I’m literally not. This community always acts surprised when the world uses these devices like they are idiots for using them. “Just setup this open source thing instead” is always thrown around as if it’s something you just plug in and use. My comment is explaining why the world doesn’t use them. And your comment is a perfect example because you use so many words and acronyms most people wouldn’t understand nor care to understand. Stop acting like it’s so easy to do and everyone around us are idiots for using devices like Ring.
You are the perfect example of someone who is knowledgeable and gets offended when everyone else doesn’t know. I see it so so much in the community. Being a newbie is rough because the knowledgeable are often assholes and act like we are stupid for asking questions. I also see a lot of bad documentation that expects you to be a veteran programmer to understand. Even if these people wanted to dig in, you guys don’t often make it easy for them.
So you saw me use some acronyms and then projected your idea of an unhelpful knowledgeable person onto me. That shit is so annoying dude, knock it off. If you go around assuming bad faith of everyone just because they know shit, then you’re only causing yourself to have the experience of nobody wanting to help.
You’re literally making this up. Again, I never claimed it was easy to do. You’re just so eager to hate on a certain community that you’ve decided anyone who appears to know anything is automatically an unhelpful asshole. And it’s making you an annoying asshole.
cctv can be free if you’re use free open source software like motion or linux.