[quote=svelte]I’ve been thinking through my surveillance system upgrade today.

Think I’ll go with some cameras that use cloud based storage, and some that use local storage.

In that way, I can monitor strategic cameras while I’m away (the cloud cameras), but keep my bandwidth usage down and have weeks and weeks of history (local storage cameras) without paying the cloud host huge monthly fees to store it.

A side advantage: If a thief finds one system or the other, they’ll disable it and assume they’ve disabled all cameras. While that won’t be the case.

Layers of security. Like an onion.[/quote]

You could monitor your security cameras remotely with the free ip camera viewer app. Upgrade to the pro version for $4 and you’ll be able to record videos remotely (create your own cloud).