Hi. It would be neat if there was some way to restrict my nest camera’s video stream to my LAN. This project advertises[1] that they’ve found some way to achieve this.
Starling Home Hub (firmware 14.5 and above) features the option to stream camera content directly from supported Nest cameras to Starling Home Hub over your local network, bypassing Google’s cloud video service. This can significantly reduce Starling Home Hub’s data usage and improve camera latency. Local streaming for the live camera view in HomeKit is supported for the following camera models…
How do they do it? I didn’t think anyone had figured out a way to do this (yet). I wonder if we could reverse engineer whatever they’ve managed to do here and somehow add the feature to HA…
ps. I’ve seen https://nestmtx.com/ the video streams go up to and then back down from the internet (google’s servers), so that’s too bad.