Security camera and remote/cloud access
This may have been covered in the past but my pain is fresh and I want to know if anyone has a solution. So I just had HughesNet installed yesterday and to my unpleasant surprise (after spending 2.5...
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Thanks Corrosive!
Can you or anyone confirm if you can look at the Nest camera remotely at a live feed with HN? Is it possible to configure minimal uploads to the cloud? I use my system to keep a check on my animals when I'm away and I would think someone has figured out a good workaround.
Hrm, the NEST cameras don't have any way to setup specific time-slots, they will stream as long as they are connected. BUT~~~ According to the article at the link below, you can adjust the resolution at which certain cameras/service plans through them will stream at. Looks like they support 360p, which would save a good chunk of data instead of streaming at 720p.
https://nest.com/support/article/How-do-I-change-the-quality-of-my-Nest-Cam-s-video-to-save-bandwidth
After that, since it still streams 24/7 to the cloud AFAIK, and uses Wifi to connect, you may be able to setup an "Access Time" of sorts in your router, to disable the wifi connection at time periods that you know you would never use the camera. That would help save some data.
Hopefully a NEST/Dropcam user comes by and can give better insight.
