The last few days Amazon has definitely been pushing deals on a lot of their Alexa devices and package deals. I guess they want to maintain that
top valued company status!
I wish they would add support for surveillance cameras without requiring Cloud services. My cameras can be connected to a Cloud, but I choose to save a ton of money by saving the video and photo feeds locally. Cloud services are so expensive, and in my opinion unnecessary when you can set your cameras to record locally in a loop. In other words, when they run out of memory storage they start recording over the oldest files, much like a black box in the aviation industry. It would be great if Alexa devices, especially Fire TV, would let me view camera feeds directly from my cameras via my WiFi, but they don't. You have to use a Cloud service to view them. I notice that the cameras Amazon tries to bundle with Alexa devices do not even have the capability to record locally, they only record to a Cloud. All of my cameras can record locally or to the Cloud. Fortunately my cameras have apps for computers, smartphones, and tablets that let me view the feeds, but it would still be nice to view them on a Fire TV.