[skrause]

The baby monitor could have its own SD card and webserver and then you provide a smartphone app which uses local network discovery to find the server and talk to it.

In that case no parent needs to know about Synology or even IP addresses.

[krisoft]

> In that case no parent needs to know about Synology or even IP addresses.

But they need to know about networking enough to be on the same network. I understand that sounds easy, but every time someone gets confused about their cursed setup the company making the device will get a returned product and an angry review. Client isolation, multiple wifi networks, some devices being on wifi some on the mobile network.

[chipsrafferty]

Companies are making it harder and harder to use, or at least to understand how to use, your own network for anything other than "get Internet on device"