Xiaomi camera playing on Google home hub sends stills from other people's homes

Stories like this only confirm to me that while Zoneminder is far from perfect it was the better option for me compared to using consumer-grade options. I buy cheap ($40-$60) PoE cameras (I have some Reolink and 1-2 SV3C's I think), I immediately block their internet access by MAC address, then add them to ZoneMinder. I have 2 Wyze cameras as well but they are also only allowed to talk to ZoneMinder and I have flashed a custom firmware on them.

Google shutting down Xiaomi access to Assistant following Nest Hub picking up strangers&#x27; camera [1]<p>&gt;&quot;We’re aware of the issue and are in contact with Xiaomi to work on a fix. In the meantime, we’re disabling Xiaomi integrations on our devices.&quot;<p>...<p>&gt;It appears <i></i>Google isn&#x27;t taking any chances when it comes to this issue, disabling Xiaomi integrations entirely<i></i>. We reached out for further confirmation that this would mean a blanket disabling of all Mi Home products and were told that is the case.<p>Pretty annoying they have to mess up all my other devices, but at least it&#x27;s being addressed.<p>[1] feeds<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;uh-oh-xiaomi-camera-feed-showing-random-homes-on-a-google-nest-hub-including-still-images-of-sleeping-people&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;uh-oh-xiaomi-camera...</a>

This stuff gets me paranoid, i have a nest doorbell, because i don&#x27;t care who can look at my front lawn, and a nest camera that only gets plugged in when no one is at the house. Other than that i have a closed circuit camera system with motioneyeos (motion activated) and a few POE cameras with no wifi and send the footage offsite.<p>I know it is not as convenient, but these cameras are getting scary. These are only the stories we know about. imagine who else is watching.

I have some cameras that are offline (no cloud integration, no internet connection) and when looking to buy a spare I noticed that all the newer and otherwise identical models only work with cloud integration. No ONVIF, no RTSP. Forcing the user&#x27;s hand into sending all data into their cloud for very little convenience gained, if any.

Since it only shows stills, could it be some kind of race condition? Don&#x27;t get me wrong, the major problem is of course that it has access to other people&#x27;s camera feeds but since it only gains access for what seems like a moment maybe the access getting denied is raced by the update of the screen? I don&#x27;t know, why am I even thinking too deeply about this. A major company screwing up IoT. It happens way too often and there are a million ways they could do it.

Stick with ONVIF cameras on a separate VLAN going to a recording platform like BlueIris, Zoneminder, Milestone, Synology.