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WTFH replied

15 February 2020, 16:54
Originally posted by Platypus View Post

Pls report back ! TIA.

The answer is: yes it works, easy to wire up etc, good images sent to multiple phones/tablets - and they ring similar to when you get a phone/video call.

...but... it doesn’t work with their wireless chime, which is a shame.
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Zigenare replied

28 January 2020, 13:39
Originally posted by WTFH View Post

If I lived in a smaller house, my office was at the front of the house, and I didn't spend a lot of time in the garden, then I'd have less interest in getting a video doorbell.
Hence the thread.

First world problems, eh?
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WTFH replied

28 January 2020, 13:03
Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

If he did then he wouldn't need one of these ( Video Doorbell | Arlo Home Security | Arlo), Shirley?

If I lived in a smaller house, my office was at the front of the house, and I didn't spend a lot of time in the garden, then I'd have less interest in getting a video doorbell.
Hence the thread.
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Zigenare replied

28 January 2020, 12:44
Originally posted by WTFH View Post

Decision made: Video Doorbell | Arlo Home Security | Arlo
Will get one next week.

Originally posted by oracleslave View Post

Is there a way to stop someone in a balaclava with a chisel just prying it off the wall and selling it in the pub?

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

Live in a better area?

If he did then he wouldn't need one of these ( Video Doorbell | Arlo Home Security | Arlo), Shirley?
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WTFH replied

28 January 2020, 11:55
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

Live in a better area?

It would be till the likes of us move in.
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SimonMac replied

28 January 2020, 11:43
Originally posted by oracleslave View Post

Is there a way to stop someone in a balaclava with a chisel just prying it off the wall and selling it in the pub?

Live in a better area?
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oracleslave replied

28 January 2020, 10:42
Originally posted by WTFH View Post

Decision made: Video Doorbell | Arlo Home Security | Arlo
Will get one next week.

Is there a way to stop someone in a balaclava with a chisel just prying it off the wall and selling it in the pub?
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Platypus replied

28 January 2020, 10:34
Originally posted by WTFH View Post

Decision made: Video Doorbell | Arlo Home Security | Arlo
Will get one next week.

Pls report back ! TIA.
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WTFH replied

28 January 2020, 10:20
Decision made: Video Doorbell | Arlo Home Security | Arlo
Will get one next week.
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ladymuck replied

10 January 2020, 13:18
Originally posted by darmstadt View Post

Why I don't trust it, yet:

Amazon Ring Employees Fired For Spying on Customer Video

Although not smart homes, it still shows that you can't trust your data:

Skype audio graded by workers in China with 'no security measures' | Technology | The Guardian

I trust my data, I don't trust what any company is doing with it....
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darmstadt replied

10 January 2020, 12:58
Why I don't trust it, yet:

Amazon Ring Employees Fired For Spying on Customer Video

Although not smart homes, it still shows that you can't trust your data:

Skype audio graded by workers in China with 'no security measures' | Technology | The Guardian
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original PM replied

9 January 2020, 14:49
Indeed - you should protest
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d000hg replied

8 January 2020, 16:36
Surely your smartphone IS 90% of the privacy issue.
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WTFH replied

8 January 2020, 09:41
Originally posted by original PM View Post

And finally I guess i do not live in an area where strange people come sneaking around your really nice house on a regular basis as some of those doorbell adds would have you think....

Maybe I am just a luddite though.

I don't live in an area like that either - the postman knows that if he hears the dog barking, the door is probably unlocked and will just set any parcel in the house. But other delivery men don't know that. Deliveries tend to occur during the day when I'm working in my office at the back of the house, or down the garden. It's a lot easier to tell someone to open the door and leave the parcel while still continuing with conference calls etc.
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DoctorStrangelove replied

8 January 2020, 08:58
Originally posted by original PM View Post

And finally I guess i do not live in an area where strange people come sneaking around your really nice house on a regular basis as some of those doorbell adds would have you think....

Maybe I am just a luddite though.

I solved that problem by not having a really nice house.

Want to borrow my sabot?
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