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by jerf 3745 days ago
If you're at home, does this go up to the cloud and then round-trip to your phone, or does the video stay on your local wifi?

There's a part of me that cynically wants to just guess that it does always go up to the cloud, but it's also silly (read "expensive") to ship video up to the cloud just to potentially ship it right back down to the very same wifi network, so maybe not.

(Of course I assume the cloud does proxy it if you're not home, because $90 million probably isn't anywhere near enough to actually take on trying to make IPv6 work for consumers reliably enough to make this work. Sad.)

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It goes to the cloud, but only to stream the video once it's already been stored.

When the unit senses motion, it starts recording video, then uploads it to your cloud, where you have to wait a short bit before its processed before you can view the video if you didnt answer the ring.

If you answer the ring, the camera is still streaming the video to their cloud which is in turn streamed down to your phone via the app.

It goes up to the cloud and then back down to you.
All this cloud nonsense... One day someone will come up with an appliance type device that one can keep at home to act as the personal cloud environment. One day...
A NAS?
NAS that is stupid simple to set up. 99% people don't know how what NAS is...