Eggs, baskets, and lessons being taught about how it's not a good idea to heavily skew their ratio.
Ok so the combination is:
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:
Eighty quid for a light up button in an oversized housing, backed by a basic radio and relay plugged extension cord. Jfc.
The whole underlying thing bar the critter friendly button could be picked up for less than 20. 3D printing is so ubiquitous that the missing parts/modifications would be pennies on top, with a little CAD work.
The concept is great but the inevitable Chinese clone will be hot on its heels at a fraction of the cost if the demand is there. At the core of it, there is nothing new here and it's very easy to copy.
I'd mind what it controls, especially anything that heats or moves.
Best take.
Hard lessons taught for the kid - mum is a dumbass, and stay away from rotary tools.
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.
About average for a flag shagger I suppose.
Rclone is great for data wrangling. Takes only a little learning for a lot of future convenience/automation down the line.
evs.ee at least offers ISO standards at a not extortionate price:
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.
So that's why a 2 systems were getting crappy speeds. Yes, 2. It had been used only to split a single drop from another switch between two systems.
New drop, happy clients.
Some stuff here is museum material.
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.