You own an iphone… So I guess that would not have been thought before time travel…

I like and use gimp (well… Kind of moved to Krita but still use gimp sometimes) but of course are you referring to the unfinished state or the complexity?

Gimp does one thing only, i don’t recall it can act as a code editor or a browser or a file manager etc etc … It is a complex thing it does, but the problem underlying it tries to solve is complex.

Over-complexity is related to the complexity of the problem to solve, not to the complexity of the tool that you use.

So a simple solution to a complex problem is also a complex solution in itself…

You would have a useless object that within a day is permanently discharged and turned off. Maybe you bring also a charger and luckily find a stable enough power source that it doesn’t burn in a few days.

Still, an iphone is a useless device without network of any kind.

Maybe you could impress somebody with the calculator (those existed already but where massive mechanical devices unable to do divisions without a math degree kind of).

My guess nobody would be quite interested. Probably the plastic and aluminum would be the most interesting technology for the time.

Love Unix principle: do one thing and do it right.

So I look for quite stable and simple software rather than huge over complex monsters that are never really finished or ready (yes IBM and Microsoft I look at you)

Yes this is exactly the point behind LazyNVR… reduce power usage of the server, and CPU, since the load can already be supported by the camera itself.

If the camera can only record on local storage, you can still use LazyNVR but you would need to manually dump the SD card content to the server… Ftp or any other network transfer is much more practical tough

Not the ones I have … Maybe they are just too old (3-6 years) but they live separated from internet. So I am pretty sure of that.

Well, they probably don’t do face detection at all actually …

I only have one reolink and it’s cabled, PoE. So can’t help you… But I can say reolink is the worst hardware quality but better software quality than dahua in my experience … My reolink did factory reset for over one year every time it rained… Then stopped all by itself … No idea why

Never had imou or tapo. But if they provide at least an url for live stills you can athe very least display them in the web GUI bot not collect recordings…

Yes there will be regulations and laws on AI and it’s use, it’s a matter of time. Technology usually comes first, and it’s regulations come afterward…

It’s too soon at this time. And I have absolutely no hope that companies are capable to regulate themselves.

I use markor. Sync with syncthing. I think it can do webdav

Once I asked ai to write a piece of code for me. I literally spent more time fixing it and resolving obscure issues that I would have spent writing the code myself

Yes indeed if your camera have motion detection embedded, it will work.

I tested frigate but after two cameras or so my small server CPU was hammered. This solution works for my 15 cameras with almost zero CPU impact.

I assume frigate can do a much better motion detection and filtering tough.

Cool! Keep me posted … Via codeberg itself or pm me here, or this thread whatever works for you

I want feedback!

I don’t use traefik, but if you can suggest a setup I will gladly post it on the wiki… I use nginx and I have posted my setup as reverse proxy.

As for authelia, I can post my setup for that s well. No OIDC, just a simple nginx link to authelia to input password and username. Maybe you can open a ticket on codeberg so I don’t forget?

Keep me posted. Open tickets on codeberg, pm me… Whatever … So far it’s been running solid on my home, bit that’s mostly it, I need feedback! And improvement suggestions.

AI is pretty useful tool if used properly. But given how much it’s abused with slop and vibe coding, I prefer to be upfront.

Overall AI is a revamped stack exchange search on steroids. But you really cannot trust even the smallest snippet of code it writes

Good point… Yes, because it’s a lazy one and let other record instead… then handle the recordings.

I was thinking of 2.5" inch USB drives powered by USB cables…

For 220v ones get a proper ups power strip. They are cheap about 50-60 bucks

In short: buy a cheap ups power strip or a generous USB powebank capable to being under charge 24/7 and do not let the HDD switch off on power loss…

That is a guaranteed recepy to destroy your data and possibly the hardware as well as spinning disks don’t like abrupt shutoff and that applies to data being written on SSDs as well.

Remounting after the power resumes is the last of the issues, easily fixed by a amount/mount command with the proper fstab setup.

Unfortunately, I basically don’t drink alcohol… At the same time, a pint would last me ages…