[lazyeye]

With the Reolink brand you can only install their web cameras via their phone app and only with the GPS turned on and set to "precise“ mode. Seriously, when the GPS was set to “approximate“ it would not allow me to proceed.

Reolink is a Chinese company....

[iszomer]

Most of them are anyway; even Tapo was (in name only) spun off from TP-Link and couldn't be set up without bluetooth enabled. I almost entered Reo's garden while researching Ubiquiti and Unifi.

[lazyeye]

I resolved the problem by temporarily installing a "Fake GPS location" app on my phone and permanently blocking the camera mac address on my router. I can still access the camera remotely using Tailscale. I have a Tailscale node running on a Raspberry Pi on my internal network. It works well.

[iszomer]

I keep them in a separate vlan with outbound internet enabled but firewalled from my main network and am still building a ruleset for blocking all *.cn and china-based ipv4 addr blocks. One interesting tidbit during the aws-east-1 downtime was that tapo remote viewing was inaccessible while wyze was okay.