Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comexternal-linkmessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1425arrow-down15cross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.world
arrow-up1420arrow-down1external-linkAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comMatt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square116fedilinkcross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.world
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·20 hours 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-up14·20 hours 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-up5·15 hours 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-squaremelfie@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoLocal, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours 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-up2·edit-26 hours 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-up1·1 hour 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.
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 hours agoI don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know… Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 hours agoI would be very surprised if there was
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.
Local, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.
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.
I don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know…
Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
I would be very surprised if there was