Sooooo CHIPS Act?

The result being an unbalanced risk pool, insurers pulling out, and escalating costs for those remaining. But hey, they Owned the Libs!!!111!!

A sensible approach? The CHIPS Act was sensible. Putting tariffs on raw materials and on equipment needed to build and then expecting an industry to pop up because you constrained supply is just stupid. We aren't actually the only consumer and as farmers found his last term sometimes markets just go away and find other customers.

No, I'd say it requires an awful lot of help from those around him, and I look forward to it all being exposed in the future - hopefully not the distant future.

Ah glad someone went down the Emby path! I tried doing this streaming from a Wyzebridge container but never got it working and gave up. I only wanted it to be able to quickly check certain cameras and will try it again in the future. It's a shame the Devs aren't more receptive :(

I see TAPO and Eufy mentioned. I do actually have a Eufy camera to test but I believe it's wired and it's pretty nice. TAPO is one I have tested but didn't deploy mostly because as I mentioned with taking a Wyze camera and flashing it - you become the entire infra for alerts. TAPO seems to have good image quality and I recall the low light was good too, price wasn't bad. Worth grabbing one to check out and test IMO. Eufy seems to make solid hardware too but I believe mine was a bit larger than the TAPO and Wyze hardware. I've tried out all sorts of whacky camera lol

I have one of their cameras that's wireless; I wouldn't recommend it. It can be flipped to a standards-based mode but it's no longer managed in their environment, has poor low light capability, and costs an ass load more than more capable cameras. Does have a nice look to it and isn't cheap plastic but it's also not weather rated.

I'm happy to provide them with the footage - after they ask and give me a reason to, perhaps even a warrant. I do not appreciate efforts to simply take footage from cloud providers for fishing expeditions.

I've been using Wyze cameras and the Wyze Bridge (https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge) in a container to stream standards-based traffic to NVR software. Sadly, the project appears to be abandoned and Wyze instituted some changes that made it difficult to use if the cameras weren't all on the same network as the container. There are forks but I've yet to try them and would appreciate feedback from others. Wyze reps claimed (on Reddit) that the change that broke things was a "back-end issue" and that they were working on a fix. Crickets. Older firmware worked but most of mine got flashed, it's possible to flash back with an SD card and image. If you aren't trying to record in multiple places connected with a VPN (Tailscale for instance) or have your IoT on a separate network this isn't a problem. I was recording 15 Wyze cameras to BlueIris reliably (some others too) and the cameras are dirt cheap and have EXTREMELY good light gathering for color video in low light! I also pay for their cloud service in order to get alerts and ease of access - one yearly fee for unlimited cameras so far and is a decent symbiotic relationship. Currently my system is down due to a long-distance move so I'm relying strictly on their app right now.

I had no issues with Wi-Fi congestion at the remote site that held ten cameras and a 30meg 'net service was fine over Tailscale for recording. The cameras have worked well in weather but I've not yet weather tested their V3 pan/scan unit - I will :) It tracks motion well, I have one inside a building. I am using Ubiquity APs meshed over Wi-Fi for now and am getting good distance. Weirdly some of the MAC show up as kitchen appliances

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You can flash their cameras with open-source firmware but NOT all of them, they're locking them down in later versions like their newest flood-light cameras (dammit!). https://github.com/themactep/t... is a project that supports this and it has a good supported hardware list worth looking at. This will remove them from the Wyze ecosystem. There's a power injector sort of adapter that will allow you to (supposedly) provide power over the USB and get IP traffic from the USB port turning it into a sort of wired camera but I've not tested it - I did buy a few of the adapters to try when time allows. IF you do this all of the alerting and remote access setup will be up to you, it's obviously no longer symbiotic. Speaking of adapters - I've had multiple USB power adapters from Wyze die, using a good Anker replacement gets them back into service easily.

I like the form factor, I like the light gathering, I love the price (!), I own many of their cameras as well as some of their other hardware. I'd love to be able to buy one that was standards based out of the box even if it cost a bit more. I do NOT like that they screwed everyone with an infrastructure change and appear to have lied about fixing it. I want "local" 24x7 recording that doesn't rely on a damn SD card that can be stolen with the camera or corrupted. Wyze had beta firmware for some cameras that produced ONVIF streams (from memory..) but it was unreliable and not kept up - NOT recommended.

I have used one of the Ubiquity indoor cameras too. NOT worth the price, not good light gathering, and to stream to another NVR it has to be removed from their environment - don't do it.

Hope that helps some, I look forward to seeing what others have used. I know there's hardware similar to Wyze out there that may be more open and I think I have one in a box somewhere but I'm not sure it's as weather resistant and you get to handle all of the alerting etc. Frigate looks like a good NVR for this. BlueIris can alert too if you can get it sorted and they now screw around with pricing yearly if you want updates and I've yet to get their AI working so buyer beware.

P.S. I like the Dahua wired cameras - great low light, weather resistant, reliable, but rough firmware support, and I'd never let them talk to the 'net only to your NVR... Buy them from the vendor recommended on IPCAMTALK straight from China.

Closer to one third, we just had about another third or so not get off the couch.

Sugar?! You mean Corn Syrup right? Know why they don't use cane sugar? Tariffs on cane sugar to push corn by midwest farmers it seems.

They aren't real big on thinking into the future. See Solar and wind cuts. See pushing older experienced folks out of Govt into early retirement while firing the young ones - who needs expertise? Let's make these lower paying Govt jobs unstable so we can't get anyone to take them! You can cut off airplane engines midflight and it'll still fly too - for a while.

Let's ignore clean air\water regulations and get rid of people who monitor food production processes. Look at what they're doing with vaccinations, what could possibly go wrong in a few years? Tariffing everyone around while claiming they're going to build production here with hardware that has to be built elsewhere and imported? That's just big brains at work! We all know who pays those tariffs, but they sure are excited about that new income stream aren't they? It's a tax.

Falling birthrate, aging population, but we want to see GDP continue to rise? Let's kick out motivated foreign workers! Oh, you wanted them, to come in legally? How about funding the fucking system to allow that and streamlining it so people walking hundreds of miles with no money have a chance in hell making it through before starving. I've watched people marry citizens and "get legal", it costs them quite many thousands and they're usually on their 3rd kid by the time the paperwork clears - literally. I wonder how long it will be before we're bailing out farmers - AGAIN.

I've generally preferred to pay people a salary, when reasonable to do so.

I hire(d) people (I still employ some people directly) to do a job. So long as the job was done properly, I'm not a big stickler when it comes to spending time at work. If the job can be done in 4 days, so be it. My concern is that the work is done on time and properly. It's also not important to me how they did the work, so long as it was done right.

I'm all for a 4 hour work week, so long as their wages match what they'd make for a 40 hour work week. Yes, minimum wage is too low. Then again, I'd never consider paying someone the least amount I could pay them by law. That's just a kick in the proverbial nuts and pretty damned degrading. "I'd pay you less, but the law won't allow it."

My house was built before CAT6 came out. It should be easy to upgrade as everything runs through in-wall conduit. I figured I'd do that for future-proofing.

I've not really seen a need to upgrade. It works well enough and there are jacks in most rooms. I also don't have the bandwidth to make it matter much, though fiber will be here before too long. Upgrading then may matter. (Fiber wasn't going to come up my road, but I contacted the company and a couple of neighbors and I will pay for the fiber to be run.)

Cat5e should still be fine. I'm not going to bother paying for full GB service, as I don't need that much bandwidth. I'll be fine with half of that and CAT5e should be viable.

This is about the 'inadequate' comment you made.

I could see it being inadequate for some people. As for me, it's still holding up and still fit for purpose. I've lived in a bandwidth-impoverished area for going on two decades. So, my needs, perhaps better said expectations, are different. I don't even see a reason to go full boar on the GB speeds. As I am technically a business, they say I can request even higher speeds. I'm simply not interested in that.

Then again... We'll see how I feel after a few months. I may end up wanting to splurge and increase my speeds. It could happen.

You'd think so, but you won't feel a thing. You won't have to adjust your diet because you'll naturally lose weight. Then, well, you won't even suffer a headache, a toothache, a stubbed toe, or any of those other painful things.

Hmm... This needs a pithy statement that can be summed up enough to fit on a bumper sticker.