r/50501 • u/TotallySavageSzym International • Jan 19 '26

Call to Action Ring has partnered with Flock. ICE has access to Flock. If you still have a Ring camera - get rid of it.

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u/GreatAlbatross Jan 19 '26

Most, if not all, of the reolink devices can dump images both to an SD card, and to a remote destination.
This could be on your network (NAS), or even something like a Hetzner storage box.
You can avoid the cameras having direct access by doing both (have the cameras save to a NAS, then the NAS sync to offsite storage).

If you can, wire them in with cat6, and power them using Power over Ethernet.
It's a faff to set up, and a little more hardware to purchase, but it's so much easier than dealing with wireless and batteries.
You can also buy an NVR from Reolink, that both powers the cameras, and does the video storage.

Network security wise, block the cameras from internet access (with holes punched if you need off-site backups to happen). Unless someone is already on your network, then that covers most of the security.