Amazon Debuts New 'Cloud Cam' Security Camera and 'Amazon Key' In-Home Delivery Service

[Ghost31]

As someone that lives in a crappy neighborhood and had to sleep by the door just to hear them come so I wouldn’t lose my package, this sounds freaking awesome

 

[Tinmania]

It’s not aimed at lazy. It’s aimed at security, ironically. You’re giving up a bit of personal security by allowing them to deliver inside the house, while gaining security from having your package stolen. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this, but it’s clearly aimed at the skyrocketing rates of package theft across the US and likely across the world. I personally think new houses and apartments being built should be including some type of package drop box on/in the house.

You summed it up nicely. As for me, I would never allow a driver access to my home. And really that is what you are doing. It is not opening "just a few feet around the front door," it is opening the whole house. I think I'd trade the odd stolen package for that. Fortunately I don't have to.

So far I have not had a problem with a UPS/USPS delivery being left unattended at my last three homes, and I have had many such deliveries. In my case, at least with UPS, they tried/try to leave packages in areas that, while not protected, were at least out of sight. My current house has columns in front, and the UPS driver leaves packages behind the column by the front door.

Still, I wouldn't want to leave a package that was left outside, out overnight--or longer. So a locked safe location would be nice. I might chose my garage, like several others have mentioned, but that too has stuff in it I don't want to lose. A separate locked location would be better.

Ironically, I have that for USPS deliveries. My neighborhood has a central mailbox location, from my home it is around the corner. If I get a USPS package that is too big for my (locked) mailbox it is left in one of the locked package boxes, of which there are three increasingly larger sizes, and the key is placed in my mailbox. No real worry if I had to leave it overnight.

I don't live in area that is served by direct Amazon delivery, so I doubt we will be getting this type of service anytime soon.


Mike

 

[DevNull0]

Pretty good compared to the Nest which I have used for years.

As usual, Amazon is severely undercutting the competition’s price on both the hardware and the subscription service.

$20/month to save clips for 30 days is pretty good?

I understand why all the companies want people to pay crazy prices for their cloud services, but I don't get why suckers subscribe for this. Wouldn't it be a lot better to archive to your local computer for free so you retain control of the somewhat personal video around your home and skip the cloud?

And even if you wanted the cloud for some reason, if these companies weren't blatantly gouging you, there would be a way to use iCloud or dropbox storage to store the video files.

I use raspberry pis running MotionPie. Full feature motion sensitive IP camera, stores your files locally or uploads to FTP. No monthly fees and under $80 per camera. And a lot cheaper than that if you throw a few USB webcams on a single Pi.

 

[dauthiatull]

this would work for me since my basement apartment has 2 locked doors leading into it. there is nothing between them but an empty space. they could drop off the package and still not have access to my home.

 

[CarlJ]

Between Google, Amazon and Apple, which company has a history of leaking sensitive user information?

Hint: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_photos

Hint: maybe go read the page you're linking to - criminals got passwords from the victims directly via targeted phishing attacks. How is that Apple leaking information?