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Originally Posted by OtinG
What I hate is that most of the security cams, including Ring, require a monthly cloud fee to use them with Alexa to view on a Show or Fire TV. It isn’t worth the fee IMO. If the cams have WiFi, and most do, then they should let you view them through your WiFi rather than having to use a cloud storage. I prefer to do my on storage too.
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I'm with you. Home security footage is the last thing I want under the control of some unknown foreign corporation.
I'm eventually going to get a commercial/industrial type camera system that's all local.
The problem with Alexa integration is that, IIRC, Alexa is totally blocked from working locally. So if you REALLY want "local" functionality with Alexa, you'd need to serve your own content out to the cloud via your own server, and then create an Alexa skill to consume it. (Unless you choose an existing server/skill that accomplishes the same thing.)