Bought these cameras for home monitoring because it was affordable/ free way to keep an eye on my yard and family and now these greedy bastards are making you pay a membership in order to watch the playback videos. It's not enough that we pay for the cameras now they want to be money grubbers and nickle and dime you to death. It's not like the video quality got better or that they're offing better service. The night vision in the cameras don't come close to ring cameras. So don't bother.