Can this camera be routed to a NAS hard drive instead of the Cloud?
I am not interest in paying for cloud storage. I currently have a ip camera using the SD card and also a 1TB NAS drive in a secure location. I am trying to upgrade video quality with a new camera.
No. You can not route the feed to your phone, or other storage device. If you don't pay for the cloud recording storage, you only get a live feed.
If a burglar finds and steals your camera and storage device, you effectively have no video evidence. So cloud storage isn't bad if you think about it. Altough having video of me running around my house shirtless, or worse, in the cloud can be troubling at first, you can program the camera to turn off when you get home or turn it off manually from the app on your phone.