Eufy users can view camera images of other users due to bug – Computer – News

This kind of nightmare reports about smarthomes, etc. Is exactly the reason why I am quite reluctant ..

Will it ever get better, or just get worse?

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The problem is that everything has to be done via accounts or via apps, even if the images themselves are not in the cloud. The only solution to get this decent is if an IP camera has its own built-in web server that you can then forward your router to. Then you can log in directly to a specific camera. Or, there may be a hub with a web server, to which you can connect multiple cameras, and then you log in to that hub.

Eufy pretends you have everything in-house because they don’t upload anything to a cloud, but without one of their accounts or app it still doesn’t work … and that’s why I wouldn’t buy those kinds of articles.

There is nothing in the house of smart equipment, except a Chromecast for Netflix, and a number of ChromeCast Audio speakers to stream music from radio stations (and via BubbleUPNP server also FLACs from a NUC). No cameras and microphones here that are attached to a cloud or an account, and there will be none. (And other home-automation things associated with a manufacturer or service in any way won’t be there either.)

Even the few cloud solutions that I use (quickly sharing a file between my phone and computer via OneDrive) I am thinking about converting them to my own in-house NUC.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Katsunami op 17 mei 2021 16:40]

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