Turkey’s main source of renewable power is Atatürk spinning in his grave.

I just run mine without ever connecting it to the internet.
I run an Apple TV (shock, walled garden!), as it is the only device I’ve seen that consistently matches frame rates properly on the output.

This is why I often refer to 4K as UHD: The WCG and HDR being available to consumers is far more impactful than end users having a few more pixels.

(Also because I’m a snarky pedant, and consumer 4K UHD is only 3840 wide, while DCI4K is actually 4096)

“A hunting accident? In the New Forest? What a strange and unexpected occurrence!”

I love my Reolink one.
It’s powered by PoE, which means running an ethernet cable, and either using a PoE capable switch, or injecting the power just for that cable with an injector.
If you’re planning a few cameras, a switch is worth it, as you can power them all easily. Basic ones are £20.

Because it’s powered, it will stream all day/night without worrying about batteries. It stores video locally on a microSD, and dumps clips to FTP happily.
The clip capture is pre-rolled too (30s, I think?), which is always nice.

Currently, I have the feed in dashboards, and I have an automation that flashes the lights and sends a picture to my phone when someone presses the bell.
Eventually, I’d like to integrate it directly into HA so I can speak to people without using the Reolink application.

I like Reolink’s other cameras too (they do quite a few). I have an 810A, and a 510, if you wanted any feedback on them.

I found it was well worth ripping to flac securely using EAC (no idea what the modern setup is).
As then I knew I had a perfect copy to make whatever MP3 I wanted in the future from.

Nowadays, I convert everything to V0 for portable use, but who knows what the future may hold.

I’m returning to car boot sales to buy cubic meters of CDs.
That, and BandCamp.

One of us, one of us!
Reach out if you have any issues. The dashboards are basically one step away from the configuration, you’ll probably have one sooner than you think!

Also, when you start playing with the light, check out grouping. Very swish having one button to turn all the lights in the house off.

And the thin pins means that with any weight (wall-wart, etc.), it starts to come out.
Doubly so if it’s set into thin plasterboard that already wobbles.

Owl in owl.

These are some great looking dashboards.

Just thought I’d pop a link to last year’s thread, which had some other fun dashes.

PP is basically the Strange New Worlds app for me now.
Sub for a month, whenever the new SNW series is almost finished.

I’m a great believer in keeping things as simple and modular as possible.
Much easier to just dump files over FTP than have HA do the saving.
Plus, the camera can operate like a dashcam, and save before/after the event, while that would be tricker in HA, as you’d have to run a buffer.

MFF optiplexes: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

Just in case you were not aware, most Reolink cameras can do “save a clip if you see a person” on their own, without involving HA.
And they can either dump it to local or network storage.
The detection is done at the camera, and just fires a notification over ONVIF.

Part of me also thinks that fediverse doesn’t need growth for the sake of growth.
That it’s primary function is to be an alternative if people want to use it.

Exactly this. The device either needs to be open enough that it can easily integrate to HA without internet access.
Or dumb enough that I can mod it with an ESP.

Anything that has to go through the manufacturer’s servers goes in the bin, the risks of data theft/rent seeking are too damned high.

If it helps for a future purchase, Focusrite’s external interfaces have been amazing for Linux support.

To the point where I didn’t even notice; It just worked perfectly out of the box.

I’m assuming you’ve already checked this, but is your interface set to the same frequency/bit depth between Linux and windows? Or if it uses optical, whether it’s set to the same word clock source.

I keep wondering if I should open a little non-profit shop, specialising in “cheap home assistant stuff that isn’t awful, that I’ve tested”.
Then I remember the absolute chaos involved in running a shop…

I’m currently eyeing up an Airgradient One, which uses the SHT40.
Unfortunately, I don’t have enough tinkering time at the moment to roll out much more kit.

In honesty, I use the relative humidity readings as more of a “it’s dry” “It’s OK” “it’s moist”, than expecting any sort of accuracy!
I’ve even considered mapping percentage ranges to “moist, normal, dry” in HA.