I have no problem paying for technology up front but when I have a choice of paying a monthly fee or not, I suddenly become Scrooge. Now there was a plethora on cameras out on the market that allowed easy set-up but each of these came with a monthly fee. I was determined to find a way around this. What I was looking for was:
- Outdoor cameras that allowed local storage, the longer the better. Both wired and wireless would be ideal
- Cloud storage so in case someone broke in, they would not be able to steal the video footage
- No monthly fee
I ended up going with REO Link for my outside cameras. These provided my 500GB of internal storage (about 20 days) and wired/wireless options. For inside the house, I chose the Canary which offered motion detection, alarm, free weekly storage of video and carbon monoxide detection.
Best of all……no monthly fee on either of them.
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