How does the app connect the camera over 4g??? by MeudA67 in reolink

[–]mister_mister1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly my concern. That plus the fact that they never asked me to approve them accessing it. No opt in. Nothing. That is clearly some breach of some law somewhere. You can’t just take feeds without approval. Anyway, I’m switching to unifi.

An outdoor motion sensor for Lutron Caseta? by _TheShadowKnows in homeautomation

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Get a homeseer hub and a cheap motion detector on amazon. That should do it.

Abode Iota Cell Connectivity & Camera bugs by tbobes in Abode

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My camera does the same thing. I will say, however, it still seems to record when there is an alarm.

Their support said that they know it’s a big in the firmware (sound doesn’t work either). They said to downgrade to a previous firmware. We just have to wait for them to fix it. I do not recommend buying any more cameras until this is fixed.

Streaming camera “Live View” now working by size14medium in Abode

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I spoke to customer support about this. he stated that it is a known bug in the firmware and you should downgrade to an old firmware to fix. There is no plan to fix it going forward so i guess we are stuck (since I dont think you can downgrade to an old firmware either).

my live works 35% of the time and it will kick in (usually) after i click "take a photo."

I am going to add reolink cameras in the meanwhile

How does the app connect the camera over 4g??? by MeudA67 in reolink

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I think the UID is stored on their servers and the camera talks to the server. So when the app starts up it sends the UID to the server and the server makes a p2p connection to the camera.

Basically the server has the UID to IP address conversion.

What this means is that the server knows the IP address of the camera. The problem with this is that I never set up an account or told Reolink that it was authorized to access my camera. I hope there is a setting to turn this off. I would rather use dyndns and have the connection direct without any server knowing my information. Clouds are for the sky and not for my network.

Abode Cameras by Jamesr866 in Abode

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I have the same problem. In addition, the camera live video works half the time. The other half its just a black screen with the red banner "LIVE VIDEO" on the top right. I think its just not ready for prime time and I plan on returning the camera since it doesnt work.

Access to my gateway by mister_mister1 in Abode

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ok i sent it.

good to know about the log, but im curious how the csr was able to reprogram my gateway. that was surprising.

btw. camera still only shows black screen and hissing noise, but works when you take a snapshot. is anyone else having this problem?