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TL;DR
- Xiaomi is ending its free seven-day cloud storage service for its residence safety cameras.
- The characteristic will cease engaged on March 31, 2023.
“Resulting from a shift in our enterprise improvement, the house surveillance recording service will probably be retired on March 31, 2023,” the corporate wrote in its discover.
So when you have a 1080p Mi Residence Safety 360-degree digital camera or the Mi Residence Safety Primary digital camera, you received’t have the ability to retailer surveillance footage on the cloud after the deadline. It’s a disgrace the characteristic goes away as a result of Xiaomi touted the free seven-day rolling cloud storage as one of many promoting factors for its security cameras. It’s unclear whether or not newer Xiaomi safety cameras, just like the Mi 360 2K Pro, may also cease supporting the cloud storage characteristic.
Anyhow, the affected Xiaomi cameras will nonetheless allow you to view real-time surveillance footage and proceed sending you alerts and occasion notifications.
If you wish to proceed accessing outdated surveillance footage or storing it for posterity, you’ll have to take action domestically on an SD card.
Whereas Xiaomi will cease recording surveillance footage after March 31, customers will nonetheless have the ability to obtain and save movies recorded within the final seven days, i.e., from March 25 to March 31.
Xiaomi hasn’t given a concrete purpose for ending cloud storage for its safety cameras. Nevertheless, it’s not the primary firm to take action. Not too long ago, Arlo additionally introduced that it’ll finish legacy video recording providers on January 1, 2024.