It would definitely be a size thing for adding Ethernet (PoE or otherwise) to small boards like these. The ones I am using are already bigger than they ought to be - the bottom half is just a glorified serial interface and power input for USB. The esp plugs into this through pin/header. If I were less lazy, they could be about half the thickness in a final product. No PoE I suppose also keeps them cheap, which is always good for me. The casings were my first ‘proper’ design and entry into resin printing.

The Tapo kit I have found to be a good balance of price, features and quality. I have a Tapo C310 mounted outdoors at another building, which has done great in all weathers. Initial setup does require the app/service last time I checked, but it can be made to serve RTSP locally after that. Very good for the ~£30 price point.

Eggs, baskets, and lessons being taught about how it’s not a good idea to heavily skew their ratio.

Ok so the combination is:

• This camera board
• This external antenna
• This project
• A shell I designed myself in SketchUp (skp download). Note that’s not the final version, as I lost some design files.

And the finished item:

All assembled, they will give a decent enough feed to frigate for the basics. Just don’t expect miracles in the resolution or framerate departments. 3fps does fine for my use case of tracking critters.

Gladly. I’ll collate a few bits later - time for work.

New to me & bookmarked. I am sure I have some crap lying around that this would work with.

Thank you!

For hardware, anything that can provide a local rtsp stream is a good place to start. I run cheap and cheerful mix of tapo, unbranded and homebrew esp32 cams. Offload the motion/object detection and alerts to something that can pull in the feeds, and isolate the cams to local network only.

WiFi usually ok, but at least hardwire the power to save future grief.

Using frigate to manage mine, which is running under Homeassistant - another project worth looking up.

A few images, featuring Freddie the visitor:

If you don’t control it, you don’t own it. Any device reliant on an outside service lives on an indeterminate amount borrowed time, decided by the whims of the provider.

Another batch of users will be learning this lesson the hard way.

We’re using Emby set up on a container with GPU passthrough. Used to be on a Synology, but that absolutely sucked for transcoding and now just hosts the library.

Does the job and does it well with a little extra setup for subtitles (extensions, API keys etc). Subs are a must as I can barely hear shit.

Apps work well, as does the web interface. Sometimes struggles with the highest quality files (hardware limitations rather than software), but 1080p is fine for our use.

Haven’t needed to look into anything else, no dealbreakers yet.

evs.ee at least offers ISO standards at a not extortionate price:

https://evs.ee/

The pdfs do have some DRM on them and they will come watermarked with the buyer details though. The former is easy to get around - I used foxit reader and a pdf ‘printer’ to make a copy that opens nicely in anything.

A microphone that the product user willingly carries around all day to record their actions, conversations, and (if given access) email etc. Of course Amazon want it. It’s a privacy-busting, user metric/advertising wet dream in a wristband.

A redlib instance is also an option. Example: https://redlib.pussthecat.org/

Let’s see how well they drop test…

Oh nee :((

It’s a Synology NAS so will work with the Synology DSM integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/synology_dsm

There’s definitely ways to poll the sensors of other devices though. I had some janky sensors set up before for monitoring a standard Linux box.

We’re doing fine here:

Aber Deutschland ist geschmolzen :(

To its credit (of which there is little), Windows can handle most things these days just fine without externally obtained drivers. Gradually improving since 7 onwards. The only sore spots really are proper gfx drivers and printers. 10 and beyond will also gracefully handle being drive-swapped into completely different hardware.

If it’s a reinstall, activation is automatic for OEM licences.

Step 4, yes, what a shitshow. Way too many hoops and hurdles to go through just to get a functional OS without the bloat and guff.

Rock on :)

Confirmed issue, just gave it a test.

Adding the uBlock Origin extension to Tor Browser will resolve it and make the links proper again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Working fine for me on Mullvad.

I’ve got it covered :) - whole duplicate set of hardware & drive image. Recapped the board last year & replaced PSU too.

I won’t touch the DOS software it uses to actually run the plant, the lads can have at that.

Design/machine people are a wholly different breed of user…