Convict45

Amcrest is all up in your business.

Think you replied to the wrong person. I don’t like or recommend Amcrest.

I’ve owned a bunch of Foscam cameras, a sub-brand owned by Amcrest.

Amcrest and its Foscam sub-brand seem very interested in getting access to your cameras, have less capable and less convenient software, and the cameras themselves seem less well built than Reolink.

I bought a half a dozen V1 Wyze cams, and at least two of them have failed. I won’t touch that brand again. I also would never have used Wyze at all except for the exploit that allowed custom firmware installation for real local access and control.

And probably four times the quality. If I could go back in time and choose Reolink for every camera I have, I would. In a heartbeat.

Maybe if you’re a deep Linux head, but the rabbit hole of “first do x, which requires y, which requires z, which requires….” Seemed infinitely deep for me, who has only a passing familiarity with Linux.

Again, I’m talking about Node Red on HA CORE.

Node red is the most notable example.

You must not be talking about HA Core. Because some of those add-on additions are just straight up impossible for Core, as far as my experience.

Because easy money from a decade of low interest rates is disappearing.