Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoYeah, was reading about it here too https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025 Ring doorbells, Alexa, ahh… the joys of selfhosting.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoIs there no way to check the doorbell video locally? An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoObligatory https://reolink.com/ Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoIt mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 days agoTBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant. But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoThat sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network. The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.
Yeah, was reading about it here too
https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025
Ring doorbells, Alexa, ahh… the joys of selfhosting.
Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?
An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
Obligatory
https://reolink.com/
Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
TBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant.
But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho
That sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network.
The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.