Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comexternal-linkmessage-square108linkfedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down15
arrow-up1381arrow-down1external-linkAWS is having a bad dayhealth.aws.amazon.comMatt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square108linkfedilink
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·9 months agoYeah, was reading about it here too https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025 Ring doorbells, Alexa, ahh… the joys of selfhosting.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 months agoIs there no way to check the doorbell video locally? An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoI don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know… Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoObligatory https://reolink.com/ Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoIt mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoI would be very surprised if there was
Yeah, was reading about it here too
https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025
Ring doorbells, Alexa, ahh… the joys of selfhosting.
Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?
An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
I don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know…
Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
Obligatory
https://reolink.com/
Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.
It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?
I would be very surprised if there was