Why having a diverse set of brands is good

[ZzyzxOh]

I received an email from Nest today after noticing only my Nest cameras were down for a period on Monday:

"On Monday, February 24, an update to [Nest.com] servers caused a connectivity issue that prevented Nest cameras from recording and streaming live video from 11:55 AM to 4:20 PM Pacific Time. All camera services are now running smoothly. Video history was not captured during the outage."

They also do the Google thing and assume the world time revolves around Google. <chuckle> Even though that's a four hour outage, the fact that my Nest cameras now have overlapping area coverage with other, non-Cloud, cameras made it less of an impact for me, in spite of the fact it was dark here at 4:20 PM Pacific Time.

What was good is I felt that Camect was so stable I was pretty confident at the time that Nest was having a problem.

[Robert Spendlove]

I am pleased that Camect works with - even encourages ONVIF or RTSP cameras vs a proprietary camera system or connection method.

I barely managed to get the permission from the boss (wife) to get this unit after the last fiasco on indiegogo.  I had ordered 10 Sens8 light cams and they were delayed again and again.  After much frustration and the supplier selling them on Amazon prior to getting them out to the backers without even informing us first... I cancelled my order.  Sens8 however sent me a home version of their camera as a stop-gap or to hopefully convince me to keep my order in.  

The device worked mostly, had some audio trouble, but it was corrected in a firmware update later.  

I lost contact with it in January, but hardly ever looked at it anyway. I tried to get it to work again, and it simply will not display a stream now.  It connects to my WiFi, the app can initiate the connection, and I can request to view a stream, but every time - it fails.  It could be bad app software but I have my doubts. (wish it were a local website like yours)   The stream needs to be connected though a secure tunnel between my camera device, their server and my viewing app.   I think this is where it fails - as if they've shut down their server.  There have been no responses to emails or other support requests.

To put a long story short - they work a lot like Nest, cannot work with Camect due to their proprietary nature, and now they don't even work on their own. 

So... thank you Camect for coming up with something that works well and works with many brands, from expensive Axis cams to the cheap-o ones.  

Rob.