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just another smart home vendor alienating their users
Posted on 10/6/17 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 10/6/17 at 4:40 pm
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Canary, a connected home security camera company, announced changes to its free service last week that went into effect on Tuesday. Under the new terms, non-paying users will no longer be able to freely access night mode on their cameras nor will they be able to record video for later viewing. Night mode is a feature that lets you set a schedule for your Canary camera to monitor your home while you sleep without sending notifications.
On top of that, all the videos the company previously recorded for free will be converted into 10-second clips called "video previews." Essentially, important features are being taken away from users unless they're willing to pay $9.99 a month.
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This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 4:42 pm
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 4:45 pm to CAD703X
Get used to it
Posted on 10/6/17 at 4:45 pm to TigerWise
no
Posted on 10/6/17 at 4:54 pm to CAD703X
Good thing I only paid a very little for mine. I never really used notifications, so I just changed mine to always away and blocked notifications on my phone. So to Canary 
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:01 pm to CAD703X
I have 2 big labs that guard the home at night.
Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:05 pm to mctiger1985
Isn't Arlo still pretty good and free?
Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:42 pm to CAD703X
Their business model probably assumed higher sales than they’ve had to cover their costs. The choice could be either get more money per customer or shut down completely and brick every device they’ve sold. That’s one of the risks of all of these gadgets that rely on someone else’s cloud.
PlayOn has a cloud version of their DVR where people get charged per episode for AWS cloud storage. Maybe the answer to the threat of all of these cloud services going away is to make customers use their own cloud. Maybe we eventually all have our own AWS accounts that these devices install into.
PlayOn has a cloud version of their DVR where people get charged per episode for AWS cloud storage. Maybe the answer to the threat of all of these cloud services going away is to make customers use their own cloud. Maybe we eventually all have our own AWS accounts that these devices install into.
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:50 pm to TigerinATL
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Maybe the answer to the threat of all of these cloud services going away is to make customers use their own cloud. Maybe we eventually all have our own AWS accounts that these devices install into
This is a far better idea than relying on several vendor clouds. It would be cheaper for the user, and more importantly it would reduce vendor lock-in.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:16 am to BaddestAndvari
I like both arlo and canary cams since they both have amazing resolution and wifi cam features but the subscription fee is something not so nice
This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 4:35 am
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:09 pm to TechDadHere
This whole proprietary cloud business is one of the reasons I went with Blue Iris.
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