Hi, I am soon going to be hooking up my new home to a Smart Things network. I would like to use the cameras as a way to monitor my children sleeping, however, I only want this video stream to be available over Wifi. In other words, I will have certain cameras (exterior) that I want to be available over the internet, but a couple cameras that I want access to be limited to only someone connected to my network.
Having local only cameras is certainly possible as Ray and Tim said.
Just for clarity, though, at the present time SmartThings doesn’t have any official camera support, and the unofficial stuff all, I think, goes through the cloud.
They’ve been promising Foscam and Dropcam support eventually, but maybe not until Hub 2, no details yet.
So are there cameras you can set up for local only? Sure. Can you make ST access cameras via local only? Not now and maybe not ever.
ST uses cloud to cloud integration for a lot of stuff you might expect to be local, like integration with Harmony, TCP, WeMo, etc