Happy to see the free storage feature. It was one of the features from Google Photos that I missed. Even happier to see that it’s now better than Google photos where it always was an all or nothing deal. Being able to keep more recent photos on the device when freeing up storage is a great option.

Ah, got you!

I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?

It does some UDP fuckery to bypass NAT and firewalls

I wouldn’t be surprised if they use hole punching. It’s an old but effective technique which Skype famously used back in its heyday.

I can recommend this too. I got the WiFi version. Integrates beautifully with home assistant including motion/person detection.

That’s what I do. The beauty of wireguard is that it won’t respond at all if you don’t send the right key. So from the outside it will appear as if none of your ports are open.