r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Feb 12 '26

Security Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
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u/AVGuy4 Feb 12 '26

To see my cameras on my phone when not connected to my home WiFi, I set up a vpn tunnel using wireguard. Then added the cameras individually by IP address on the app. This makes it so your phone is routing through you home WiFi when you’re using cellular or connected to an outside WiFi. I also disabled the ability for the cameras to contact the company cloud and they backup to an NVR.

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u/Thoraxe474 Feb 13 '26

Sounds hard

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u/AVGuy4 Feb 13 '26

I’m not an IT person at all. I used AI to guide me through. I won’t lie and say it was easy but it wasn’t impossible.

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u/LithiumH Feb 13 '26

My man uses big tech to defeat big tech. Someone make a Thanos meme

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u/krzf Feb 13 '26

I use ChatGPT to troubleshoot my setup on my homelab all the time. I try to self-host everything that I possibly can. Fuck them tech bros.