Users Are Building Their Own AI-Powered Alternatives to Amazon's Ring Cameras

Tired of annoying walled gardens and widespread privacy abuses, a growing number of consumers are building their own alternatives to Amazon's home surveillance system, Ring. In many instances, the home-rolled solutions have most or all of the benefits of Ring--but without being owned and controlled by one of the largest and creepiest megacorporations on the planet. While it requires a little extra work, third-party cameras, NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices, or dedicated NVRs (Network Video Recorders) can be combined to build Big Tech home surveillance alternatives that can scale depending on the budget. Many NAS devices make it fairly easy to duplicate app-based home monitoring. Both Synology and QNAP provide dedicated software solutions, both identically dubbed "Surveillance Station," which allow you to monitor multiple streaming cameras in a browser across mobile and desktop devices.