I will get an 811 (I think) for Christmas to play with.
Let me be frustrated for a minute and people set me straight. We had IP type cameras with either built in web servers to show an image stream and be able to not only monitor the front yard (or for critters) or do an image grab, or save a video clip. Those were years ago. People used several different types of third party software to watch that stream and do for instance time lapse captures. I think one is Blue Iris. All this is whether or not you are on the web. What happened in the yard, stayed in the yard.
Now, it seems the big move is to have elcheapo cameras from Menards or Best Buy or Amazon that take a stream, send it to some cloud place, where their software can monitor for motion detection and a million other things that they, the company, deem important. You need to be on the internet to do it.
I have two HikVision cameras, one which will work with an old browser or their iMVS software to show the current video, and indeed do a capture or even a segment of action as a movie. Goodness knows if it is sending stuff to China without me knowing it (but that is another story about having some sort of outbound location software monitor which I wish was also available, for all sorts of stuff). Anyway all that seems to have vanished, unless this product line will let one do that. If I recall from reading the last few days, things like Blue Iris won't read the Reolink image stream, and you can't get frame captures to post to your weather page, nor get those neat time lapse videos automatically produced to upload or even upload to one's web page.
Am I wrong? Is this a step backwards, or doing ONLY as the big company wants us to do?
I'd think someone out there would still make a camera that worked with all the old software, and did the things that the users wanted.
Oh, whatever happened to HikVision? Was it really in China's back pocket and a sort of a security risk, or was that all hot air?
Dale
Oh, Chief David, you should have waved as you drove by!
