View doorbell footage without a subscription

Ring wants $100/year. Nest wants more. But your doorbell probably already has a feature that makes both unnecessary: FTP upload. Enable it, point it at your own server, and you own your footage completely.

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Cloud doorbell subscriptions exist because storage costs money. But if you already pay for hosting, you're paying twice. Your doorbell's FTP feature was built for exactly this. You just need something on the other end to make it usable.

Reolink doorbells: full FTP support

Reolink makes some of the most popular self-hosted-friendly doorbells on the market. Their video doorbells, including the Video Doorbell WiFi, PoE, and the Reolink Doorbell series, all support FTP upload out of the box. Enable it in the Reolink app, point it at your server, and you're done.

# Example FTP folder structure

front-door/2026-06-04/

├── 20260604_143022.mp4 ← motion clip

└── 20260604_143022.jpg ← thumbnail snapshot

Lunetta reads Reolink's YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS filename format natively and uses the snapshot as the event thumbnail. No extra configuration needed.

Other cameras and doorbells with FTP support

Ring and Nest don't support FTP. If you want to escape their subscription, a Reolink or Amcrest doorbell is the most straightforward drop-in.

Reolink Hikvision Dahua Foscam Amcrest Axis All cameras

What Lunetta gives you

Thumbnail grid

Every doorbell event as a thumbnail. Scroll through the day, filter by date, and watch clips in a full-screen viewer.

Telegram alerts

Get a Telegram message with the doorbell snapshot or clip the moment someone rings or motion is detected.

No subscription, ever

$29 once. No monthly fee. No footage retention limits. Your server, your storage, your rules.

Labels & auto cleanup

Tag events as "delivery", "visitor", or anything you like. Set a storage quota and Lunetta clears old footage automatically.

How to switch off Ring or Nest

Get an FTP-capable doorbell

If you have a Ring or Nest, they don't support FTP. A Reolink doorbell is the easiest swap: same form factor, full FTP support, no forced subscription.

Enable FTP in the doorbell app

In the camera app, go to FTP settings. Enter your server hostname, your FTP credentials, and a target folder like "front-door".

Install Lunetta

Upload Lunetta to your server, run the installer (takes ~5 minutes), and point it at the FTP folder. Done.

$29

One-time payment, no subscription.

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Works with any doorbell that uploads via FTP

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