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cool thanksAlf wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 7:33 pmhttps://www.batteryjunction.com/rcr123a.htmlphilip964 wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 7:28 pm I have the older cameras that are not rechargeable. The batteries last about 4 months, are expensive, but are easy to change out if they are magnet attached.
These images look real good. My outdoor are the older Arlo which are only 720P. These are Blink right. Are they weatherproof, fully wireless?Syntyr wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:13 pm I like them. They are good cameras, cheap and easy to setup. They work good and record sound as well. As Flightmare said the minimum retrigger time is 10 seconds but I just lengthened the record time to 30 seconds. That seems to get most of the action.
I have the one front camera pointed straight down to capture what is going on at the door. I have another one that captures the view coming up my walkway.
Phillip,philip964 wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:05 amThese images look real good. My outdoor are the older Arlo which are only 720P. These are Blink right. Are they weatherproof, fully wireless?Syntyr wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:13 pm I like them. They are good cameras, cheap and easy to setup. They work good and record sound as well. As Flightmare said the minimum retrigger time is 10 seconds but I just lengthened the record time to 30 seconds. That seems to get most of the action.
I have the one front camera pointed straight down to capture what is going on at the door. I have another one that captures the view coming up my walkway.
Does Blink give you any free cameras or do you have to subscribe for the first one. This would give me the option for more outside, I would like to cover the street which is the only area I am blind to.
Spies on you
It is the Alexa voice control you probably have seen on TV. Plays music, gives you weather, traffic, jokes can read audible books etc. If you buy wemo or other brand switches and wall outlets it can control lights, fans, security systems etc.
You say Alexa show me the front door and Alexa will display what the camera is seeing at the front door. But this requires some set up. First you have to remember what you called all the cameras. I will try and get this set up after Christmas with my TV. Right now I think you need an Alexa Show or the Alexa Spot to see what the cameras are seeing. The Alexa dot would probably only give you audio since it only has a speaker. They have the second generation Dot at Best Buy for $19. For a voice activated no commercial radio that plays only the music you ask it to play, that is pretty cheap.Syntyr wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:08 amIt is the Alexa voice control you probably have seen on TV. Plays music, gives you weather, traffic, jokes can read audible books etc. If you buy wemo or other brand switches and wall outlets it can control lights, fans, security systems etc.
I think they might be cheaper on Amazon.BCGlocker wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 8:48 pm Tom Gresham's Gun Talk has a discount code, https://blinkforhome.com/pages/guntalk?locale=en. According to him, this is the best price anywhere.
No it doesnt. And I am paranoid. I have network packet captured every version that has been released. I have torn down 3 different version to the board and scanned the firmware at the chip level.
And your wireless security cameras can’t be hacked into either, right?Syntyr wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:36 amNo it doesnt. And I am paranoid. I have network packet captured every version that has been released. I have torn down 3 different version to the board and scanned the firmware at the chip level.
The results are that the echo unit itself is not spying on you. It listens to every sound it hears and compares its interpretation of that sound against its voice recognition tables, stored in the firmware on the device, looking for the wake word which can be Alexa, Amazon, Echo or computer. Once it hears the wake word it begins transmitting everything after that to Amazon for analysis.
Now does Amazon store those recordings? Yes... as I have pulled them up myself. And they probably search and index them. I am sure most of what they hear is Alexa turn on the brights.... Alexa turn on the fright... NO Alexa turn on the LIGHTS!
Now am I going to discuss my secret ambitions in front of one... probably not. But they are not recording all of the time. You make your decision and I certainly have no problem with it just make that decision from a point knowledge not feelings.
Oh come on now.... You can tell US.Syntyr wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:36 am Now am I going to discuss my secret ambitions in front of one... probably not.
I'll even promise not to laugh or steal your idea! 
Everything is hackable given enough time or resources. I work for a bank. Penetration testing is my day job. ATMs, servers, desktops, routers, apps, storage systems, even social engineering employees. As of last year I know of one bank that was still running Windows XP in their ATM systems.JakeTheSnake wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:56 pm
And your wireless security cameras can’t be hacked into either, right?
You probably wouldn't want to steal any of my ideas... but being laughed at by TAM... that would give me a complex!The Annoyed Man wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:11 pmOh come on now.... You can tell US.Syntyr wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:36 am Now am I going to discuss my secret ambitions in front of one... probably not.
