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Sure, but I’ve tried Frigate, and it’s not even close to Reolink in terms of ease of use. It was a giant pain in the ass to get it working to detect people in the camera. And even then, getting a push notification is something I couldn’t even figure out. And using it on a phone is really bad UX.

Oh ok. I was thinking wifi. Yeah, that’s strange that they won’t work with direct ethernet.

Because humans will put tits on anything. I watched a movie about sentient cockroaches, and the girl cockroaches all had tits.

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Joe Wilkins clearly has a thing for robots.

I mean, take off the fans and heat sink. Let me see her bare circuits.

How would you connect them to your network? They have no inputs.

I would assume it’s based on TURN or STUN, since you don’t need to log in. What makes it suspicious?

Edit: I did some reading on their blog, and they only mention something like STUN and specifically say it’s only for connection, not for relaying, so I don’t think they use TURN. In that case, the camera is streaming video directly to your phone, so it sounds like it’s not ever passing through a ReoLink server. The benefit to ReoLink is they only have to run a STUN server, which is incredibly cheap (bandwidth wise), and the benefit to you is that the video never goes through anyone else’s server. The drawback is if you have a really restrictive firewall, or some funky address translation, you might not be able to establish a connection.

A non-insignificant portion of my life has been spent enjoying code that she wrote and games that she developed. Rest in peace.

Reolink cameras are self-hosted. You don’t have to have an account in their app, and nothing is synced to the cloud. It’s all stored locally. They’re expensive cameras by comparison, but a. they’re really high quality, and b. they’re not subsidized by subscription fees.

I’ve never understood that. The plane leaves at the same time for everyone. Why hurry up to wait?

Then a payment method doesn’t need to have a payment.

That’s the ugliest purse I’ve ever seen.