So, the new QTH internet is not unlimited bandwidth like old QTH... Started looking at devices and bandwidth usage.

The biggest thing I thought about was @ring Cameras. One of the features is "snapshot Capture" where it takes a photo every 30 sec to 1 hour (configurable)

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Neat feature but looks do some math on that 200kb image and monthly data usage.

Wired cams:
30 seconds: ~17GB/mo
1 minute: ~8.5GB/mo
3 minutes: ~2.8GB/mo

Battery cams:
3 minutes: ~2.8GB/mo
5 minutes: ~1.7GB/mo
14 minutes: ~600MB/mo
1 hour: ~140MB/mo

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Well dang... and I have 6 cameras. At 1 image per minute, we are talking 51GB of data just for still images per month or roughly 5% of my monthly data cap.

Now, how about the video?

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Via chat I was told:

"Data Usage: 1080p HD 30 MB per minute roughly. A more valid estimate would be the 2500kbps limit for 1080 streaming, which is .3125 MB/s, which gives us 9MB for a 30-sec video and that’s max. A typical video will be much smaller"

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Hmm Ok.. let's say 9MB per video. You have a motion on your property on one camera and you have a link cam event to another so there is 18mb of data. Now let us say this happens 30 times a day that's 60 videos or 540MB.

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And let's be honest unless you are really setting your settings to only monitor motion in a very small dedicated area you are going to get WAY more videos than this. Easy 1-2 GB per day of just video, when most of it is unneeded.

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So with video and pictures, you could be looking at 3.7GB of traffic per day... and if your bandwidth cap is 1000GB per month 33GB per day... that is roughly 11% of your daily traffic limit per day.

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100% time to start investing in @ubnt cameras and hosting/storing the video locally.

#TheCloudSucks #TheCloudisJustSomeoneElseComputer

@internetofshit

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