Security cameras seem to be all the rage. Many WiFi issues, but also I'm tired of seeing them stream up to the cloud and then back down to the customer's phone when he's sitting in his living room. I understand when they are away, they want to be alerted and shown a video of the UPS guy's butt walking away from the house. But it seems very wasteful of bandwidth when the customer is at home, for the data to go house-Internet-cloud-Internet-house. Or might go over cellular to the phone.
Aside from the wasted bandwidth, there is a lot more to go wrong than if everything stayed on their LAN. Less complaining about missed alerts, delay, black screens, etc. Does anybody know of a system sold in big box stores that can easily be set up to keep the video local, but still go over the Internet when the customer is away from home? Or has everything become so cloud and Internet centric that you can't watch a camera 20 feet away without going to the cloud and back?
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