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Your audience is people who don’t want a corporation involved in their cameras yet you’re trying to start a corporation who is involved in their cameras. You should prepare yourself for significant pushback.
You can't expect them to give away free Pi and cameras, you jerk
Open source hardware companies sell hardware. Are you surprised?
You’re purposefully not paying attention because you want them to not be shady.
There certainly would be a market for a network camera ecosystem provided by a company that people can trust. I don't think it has to be all or nothing, plenty of people really are in no position to self-host.
I'm not sure if there is anything out there that regular consumers currently could migrate to in case they want to get away from questionable companies. There are completely local systems (local recorder, no remote access), but those are lacking the home automation features / notifications, and well-respected brands that have been around (let's say, Axis?) that are still closed source, not cross-platform and with pricing often not aimed at end customers.
I didn't check out this project, so I'm certainly not saying this is it and there habe been various criticism of this particular project here, but I'd love if a decent project would emerge in the space.
Would you consider using a managed cloud solution + app if it's open-source and properly end-to-end encrypted? How would a hypothetical company have to behave to be trustworthy, while still being allowed to profit? People here seem to like e. g. tuta.io for encrypted mail, I don't see why a similar model could not work for network cameras.
These are genuine questions btw., I myself am really annoyed at the status quo with its data breaches, blatant lies to customers about encryption, and corporations willfully cooperating with fascist governments by proactively providing video data. I'm not even going to talk about AI training.
I would consider someone making a system that would run on a VPS and made zero external connections in regard to the camera software.
The problem is auto updates, telemetry, how they probably require a phone app when a web browser is 100% capable. Did I compile that phone app myself? No.
Most people don’t even know what to look for. Poor education. 🤷♂️ it’s too hard to help them. They should just get a local closed circuit system. It’s just about Amazon packages anyway
Hi kibblebits, please see below!
We’d be happy to add an option to disable auto update in our next release.
If you have any other ideas for features we can add or changes we should make, please let us know.
What date is your hardware shipping? The exact date.