Without paying you miss out on cloud storage and cloud activity zones and rich notifications. But you can access the local storage from the app if you have the Pro 3 or ultra SmartHub. The preview thumbnail only shows an arrow until you download it so it's a bit annoying to use full time but it is an option. You have to enable the function and there's a separate router port forwarding set up to do if you want to be able to access the local storage when you're not on the same wifi network as the smarthub