Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comMatt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square137fedilink
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYeah, was reading about it here too https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025 Ring doorbells, Alexa, ahh… the joys of selfhosting.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIs there no way to check the doorbell video locally? An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI would be very surprised if there was
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoObligatory https://reolink.com/ Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoTBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant. But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know… Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
Yeah, was reading about it here too
https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025
Ring doorbells, Alexa, ahh… the joys of selfhosting.
Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?
An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
I would be very surprised if there was
Obligatory
https://reolink.com/
Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
TBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant.
But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho
I don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know…
Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.