Garage Camera with Remote

[woodee]

Woot has the Momentum Niro garage camera with remote control capabilities on sale today for $49. I have this in my garage and it works awesome!! It's very helpful if you can't remember if you closed the garage door or not.

FWIW, I have Wyze cameras in my house, but I think the Momentum app is much better because you can set the alerts by day of week not just time of day.

https://sellout.woot.com/offers/momentum-wi-fi-smart-garage-door-opener

 

[woodee]

Well that was fast, its sold out now.

 

[KBATN]

this is cool until someone finds a way to hack it and open your garage lol.

 

[stickshift]

Woot has the Momentum Niro garage camera with remote control capabilities on sale today for $49. I have this in my garage and it works awesome!! It's very helpful if you can't remember if you closed the garage door or not.

FWIW, I have Wyze cameras in my house, but I think the Momentum app is much better because you can set the alerts by day of week not just time of day.

I have this too. Got in on clearance at Walmart. Have it set up to control both garage doors. Still need to set up alerts.

I've only used it while on home wifi, but from your comment about checking to see if you closed the garage door, I guess you can control your garage door over the internet?

That's pretty cool, assuming the security is good.

 

[sharkytm]

Assume all security is bad. At best, it'll be supported for a year, assuming you update the firmware. At worst, it's already compromised. IoT devices without serious management should all be considered insecure. All my IoT gadgets are VLAN'd with no internet access, and I pass their data through a secure machine and on to my phone/computer via VPN.

 

[woodee]

Well my life is pretty boring so I don't care if they watch me wax my car naked in the garage

 

[Danglerb]

My concern is less about info native to the device being revealed as I am about it being a back door to everything else on a home network.

 

[Danglerb]

Also as some said, if the company goes belly up, it may just stop working when it can't talk to momma.

 

[redidbull]

I have a foscam IP camera in my mini barn. It is viewable on the internet from anywhere. I have a few around the house. Jim

 

[trekgod3]

I have a wyze cam in my garage and a wyze sense sensor on the garage door to the house's interior as well on the lid to my husky 52" top box.i get an alert whenever the lid opens, the door opens or the camera detects motion.

 

[username2]

Assume all security is bad. At best, it'll be supported for a year, assuming you update the firmware. At worst, it's already compromised. IoT devices without serious management should all be considered insecure. All my IoT gadgets are VLAN'd with no internet access, and I pass their data through a secure machine and on to my phone/computer via VPN.

That's kind of a bummer. I just assume that all modern technology companies (and quite a few non-tech) have customer surveillance built into their business model. I suppose it's not so different from the county government selling voter rolls.

If I did the home camera thing, I'd probably see if I could put together something out of a cheap Linux PC and a handful of POE cameras. I don't doubt that someone has written an open source security camera application.

 

[p0lar]

The buzzword compliance in this thread is solid gold, arguably worth more than the deal!

 

[Doohickey]

I found this device for $35 at Walmart.

Since I could not repair my Genie keypad outside and the replacement costs $37, I'll be a guinea pig and try this Niro out.

I'll let you all know when the hackers have broken into my home.

However, some of you need to understand that you don't even need to be hooked up to the internet to hack some garage door openers.

https://www.itstactical.com/intelli...nder-10-seconds-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

https://www.geek.com/g00/gadgets/a-...-your-garage-door-and-unlock-your-car-1630657

 

[Doohickey]

I have this too. Got in on clearance at Walmart. Have it set up to control both garage doors. Still need to set up alerts.

I've only used it while on home wifi, but from your comment about checking to see if you closed the garage door, I guess you can control your garage door over the internet?

That's pretty cool, assuming the security is good.

That's the whole point, isn't it?

You're away from home and can't remember if you closed the garage door, so you open the app and see it's open. Hit the button in the app and close the door without having to return home.

 

[Danglerb]

That's kind of a bummer. I just assume that all modern technology companies (and quite a few non-tech) have customer surveillance built into their business model. I suppose it's not so different from the county government selling voter rolls.

If I did the home camera thing, I'd probably see if I could put together something out of a cheap Linux PC and a handful of POE cameras. I don't doubt that someone has written an open source security camera application.

They have, I forget the name of the various protocols with open source "clean" operation of remote IP cameras, but the catch is an IP camera is typically a complete computer on a chip or board and it may have "features" built in that you can't turn off.

What you can buy that is less convenient, ie not wireless, are plain cameras that send their audio and video analog signals to some central box for analog to digital conversion and storage. HF sells one for like $200 with 6 cameras, but I mention it with no endorsement or experience with it, just an example.

 

[stickshift]

I found this device for $35 at Walmart.

Since I could not repair my Genie keypad outside and the replacement costs $37, I'll be a guinea pig and try this Niro out.

The Niro cam is the one at least a couple of people in this thread are using. It's been working well for me so far.

That's the whole point, isn't it?

You're away from home and can't remember if you closed the garage door, so you open the app and see it's open. Hit the button in the app and close the door without having to return home.

I guess. That wasn't the point of me buying it. I just wanted a pocket remote for the garage door, and the name brand remotes cost about as much as the Niro, which allows me to control two garage doors, and I don't need to carry an extra device when I'm working outside the house, just my cell phone. The camera was just a bonus, but one I'm going to use since someone keeps dropping their trash into my trash cans.