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Yep, I also use their cameras as baby monitors. RTSP mode to VLC on an old chromebook as an always-on monitor.

The Protect app works pretty well now assuming you have a controller to connect to, but the time between the Video app shutting down and Protect actually working properly was very frustrating. I would never trust the Protect app to stay connected while I'm asleep, though. It's definitely not stable enough for that.

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The very first night I got the camera set up was the night that there was a level 3 outage and major internet snafu, making it so that I couldnt actually get into the app to view the camera. RTSP mode sounds pretty good at this point with only one camera.

(Ignoring the fact that Ubiquity marketed these cameras as having a speaker, when, in fact, you cannot send audio to the camera, only that it makes noise on its own)

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