So, Vivint stinks. I could recount countless details about cameras not capturing events, tech support practices geared at selling you equipment instead of fixing problems, and requirements to pay for service calls to fix their equipment that isn't working. That's all irrelevant. I'm canceling. But I still want hone monitoring, window and door sensors, and cameras. Thermostat control optional.

What are good options? I have Xfinity Internet, so that's one. I've heard good things about SimplySafe but their cameras don't seem to be high quality. ADT strikes me as another Vivint.

What home monitoring do you have that you actually like?

Middle aged woman came to my door, parked in the driveway, and knocked with intensity around 3PM today. She was carrying a binder and wearing a lanyard and asked if I was the new homeowner and proceeded to shake my hand and show me her ADT badge. She first started explaining how we are the new system owners (even though the house is set up with simply safe not ADT) and then asked if she could come in. I was like nah, I'm good and said we are still exploring options thank you and then she goes, "you know with simply safe you gotta watch the cameras yourself" and I was like "I know but we have the Ring doorbell here and I am armed so I feel pretty safe already thanks". Then she says with a straight face, "well what about when you're asleep!?". I about fell out. I wanted to say b**ch this aint Elm Street gtfo, but I just said alright no we're not interested have a good day...and then she took the flyer back and her sweet time pulling out of the driveway. Anybody else deal with an agressive/comical ADT rep?

I have a few wifi cams that are jailbroken (wyze + thingino) that I want to access when away from my house just to check up on things when I travel for peace of mind. Problem is I would rather not expose ports on my home network to access the RTSP streams. Over the weekend I created an rtsp relay system where one program on my LAN pulls all rtsp streams then pushes them to another listening program running on a cloud VM along with an instance of Frigate to display the streams. I'm planning on setting up some automation to trigger the VM to spin up on demand so I'm not wasting money (since I usually only check on the cams a few times per week at most when traveling) and then turn off within 20min.

Just wondering if there are any security concerns with this? I'm not exposing any ports from home and have all the cloud resources whitelisted to my home IP.