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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I built this system for my mother with an old business pc running frigate. I used an old wifi router with ap mode available in the firmware that is only for the cameras. It’s a simple way to make sure the cameras won’t have internet access without relying on whatever router they may have. I added a second Ethernet port to the business PC because I had the parts, but for one or two cams you could theoretically do all over wifi. Install wireguard so you can manage it remotely. Then decide if you want to bother forwarding the ports and getting a domain setup, or if local only viewing is good enough.

    For cameras, I used these amcrest ASH22-W which are good enough for the price. 1080p for $33

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/314660333877

    One thing to remember with these cameras- mounting them high gives you a bigger field of view, wipes out any possibilities of identification. The frigate models also don’t do as well. Doorbell cameras are better for that.


  • I have a Shelly plug that is programmed internally to turn itself on if off for 20 seconds. Home assistant turns the plug off for 10 seconds if curl ip.me fails for 15 minutes.

    My modem is plugged into that.

    I’ve never had a router or firewall crash if I wasn’t fucking with it and did something stupid ill-advised, so I don’t try that kind of stuff unless I’m home.



  • To piggyback on the permissions hissy fit-

    My aar stack, openmediavault, and transmission stack have different usernames mapped to the same uid and it is a pain in the ass. I “fixed it” by making a NAS group that catches them all, but by “fixed it” I really mean “got it working”

    So be aware of what uid will own a file and maybe change it to a uid in the 1100+ range to make NFS easier in the future.









  • I know you’re looking for non-intel solutions but here is my setup-

    Mobo r8169 is the management interface for proxmox.

    X710 4 port: 3 ports passed as a a single vmbr for LAN:
    - 1 fiber optic to detached building
    - 1 DAC to core switch
    - 1 DAC to workstation
    1 port passed as vmbr for WAN

    That config was sorta inherited by trying to pass other non-intel nics as pcie and failing. I needed an sfp for the fiber run so I got that 4 port Intel card. It works well enough that I haven’t bothered to reconfigure it to pass the Intel as pcie.