I am in the process of purchasing a home, and the house that it’s looking like I am likely to buy has a Ring alarm system and camera installed. I like the idea of having burglar alarms on the windows and doors, but I do not want to use Ring. Between their ownership from Amazon and sharing data with the cops, I don’t trust them.
Are there privacy-friendly home security systems out there that don’t require an ongoing subscription? Bonus points if the devices are HomeAssistant compatible.
Thanks for the reply. While I’m sure that the video feed wasn’t the easiest to access from an outside attackers end, the fact that it was even being sent to the cloud, unencrypted, without consent, in the first place is a little more than a “minor” controversy. A company advertising a camera that works local only, and then proceeding to quietly upload everything from the camera to their servers, servers that, mind you, cost money to operate, likely have malicious intent.
While it may have been sensationalized, given this is a privacy comm, it should at least be worth mentioning.