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expired Posted by thairicanrob • Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024 6:50 PM
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Is there a better option for BOTH iOS/macOS that has the 360° look around button exposed and available in landscape orientation? This one ONLY has that functionality exposed explicitly in portrait orientation! And it's infuriating why that is a limitation especially when used on OSX with a Mac! I have found NO workaround or shortcut yet to bypass the OSD buttons that are Only exposed when in Portrait orientation.
Is there a alternative option that has this functionality not arbitrarily hidden behind a orientation setting of the device, one that is absolutely ridiculous oversight on a Mac!
Would also like to be able to Mark permanent Home position, this one makes any view that was manually positioned the New Home position. Would like the ability to return to a known specific position/positions with a single click. Or even time out and return to the home position, or when utilizing 360°, return to the known home position.
Plus, now that the kiddo is getting into her toddler years, I can speak through this camera to tell her to pipe down when she decides to start singing to herself at 3am.
Having another kid so I'm all in for another one. After the kids grow up, these will probably become garage monitors.
For anyone with security concerns: Eufy did get caught recently (past couple of years) being somewhat less than honest about their security practices: it was possible to stream an unencrypted video link over the net, and I believe their doorbell cams sent an image to the cloud for image processing the first time it registered a new person. So far, every time a security flaw has been discovered with a Eufy product, it has been fixed, as far as I know. That being said, if you have concerns over using a camera that pings the cloud as a baby monitor, then don't do it, simple as.
To the other person who replied asking for a better explanation: I'm referring to enabling RTSP streaming in the Eufy app, then using a raspberry pi to run Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io) with the motionEye (https://www.home-assistant.io/int.../motioneye) add-on to capture the RTSP streaming feeds from the cameras. motionEye then records to your pi or NAS, continuously or triggered by motion. There's a fair bit of tinkering and research involved to get everything running, but $30 per camera, $50 pi, and $75 external hard drive aint bad for a DIY security camera DVR system.
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I have Eufy cameras all over the house, both outdoors and indoors. They work pretty well but don't record continuously.
All my Eufy cams with microSD cards installed record continuously as configured to do so in the app. There are occasional glitches but they're generally reliable.
Viewed through the app? Yes.
Viewed through the web portal with no subscription? I'm skeptical. Not possible when I didn't have a subscription, but it has been a while. (Even *with* a subscription, the ability to view recordings in the web portal was removed and missing for months. Meanwhile Wyze caught up and leaped ahead of Eufy in the functionality and polish of their web portal).
All my Eufy cams with microSD cards installed record continuously as configured to do so in the app. There are occasional glitches but they're generally reliable.
Stored on the (micro)SD card? Yes.
Viewed through the app? Yes.
Viewed through the web portal with no subscription? I'm skeptical. Not possible when I didn't have a subscription, but it has been a while. (Even *with* a subscription, the ability to view recordings in the web portal was removed and missing for months. Meanwhile Wyze caught up and leaped ahead of Eufy in the functionality and polish of their web portal).
The PIN process you're describing is for viewing live feeds in the web portal, not recordings. I doubt the connection issue you're describing is related to having a subscription or not - sounds like a technical issue.
I might do that for the 2 i have inside the house.
tapo/tp link seems much faster to load video from my phone
Plus, now that the kiddo is getting into her toddler years, I can speak through this camera to tell her to pipe down when she decides to start singing to herself at 3am.
Having another kid so I'm all in for another one. After the kids grow up, these will probably become garage monitors.
For anyone with security concerns: Eufy did get caught recently (past couple of years) being somewhat less than honest about their security practices: it was possible to stream an unencrypted video link over the net, and I believe their doorbell cams sent an image to the cloud for image processing the first time it registered a new person. So far, every time a security flaw has been discovered with a Eufy product, it has been fixed, as far as I know. That being said, if you have concerns over using a camera that pings the cloud as a baby monitor, then don't do it, simple as.
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