The hosting and external domain are the challenging bit and what needs funding. It has been awhile since I looked into any of this, but there wasn’t an easy way to make such a thing last time I checked.
I think most of these are offloading the video feed to do the ai segmentation and analysis features that make these useful onto a hosting service. I do not expect low pricing as a feature advertised by anyone making such a comprehensive, ethical, democratically safe device. Billionaire exploitation privateer pirates have no qualms about financing hardware at break even prices for monetizing the pillaging of democracy due to the failure of citizens to remain skeptical and well informed.
If they do the object recognition on the cloud there is no way they offer those doorbells without any monthly subscription. My guess is that it is either doing something on the device or is just a dumb camera with an RTSP feed without any AI features.
My guess is the latter, considering the price. And still 20 bucks for this doorbell without a monthly subscription is a good deal. If they build something natively supporting Home Assistant that would be a killer device.
But as a friend used to say, if something is free, you are the product.
The hosting and external domain are the challenging bit and what needs funding. It has been awhile since I looked into any of this, but there wasn’t an easy way to make such a thing last time I checked.
I think most of these are offloading the video feed to do the ai segmentation and analysis features that make these useful onto a hosting service. I do not expect low pricing as a feature advertised by anyone making such a comprehensive, ethical, democratically safe device. Billionaire exploitation privateer pirates have no qualms about financing hardware at break even prices for monetizing the pillaging of democracy due to the failure of citizens to remain skeptical and well informed.
If they do the object recognition on the cloud there is no way they offer those doorbells without any monthly subscription. My guess is that it is either doing something on the device or is just a dumb camera with an RTSP feed without any AI features.
My guess is the latter, considering the price. And still 20 bucks for this doorbell without a monthly subscription is a good deal. If they build something natively supporting Home Assistant that would be a killer device.
But as a friend used to say, if something is free, you are the product.
I would be incredibly interested in this if it could work with Home Assistant and didn’t require any kind of proprietary software to run.