

Aye it’s on the list to try & potentially swap out when time allows. Probably over the holidays - no work until the new year after the 23rd, so no excuse really :)


Aye it’s on the list to try & potentially swap out when time allows. Probably over the holidays - no work until the new year after the 23rd, so no excuse really :)


It’s fine, did the job for me at the time. Just wanted the ad and nasty blocking. Keeping it and the filters up to date is easy.
Now have a pfSense box with pfBlocker-NG, which does essentially the same thing. Also runs Snort as an additional layer, and makes penning in IoT stuff possible.


Rclone works with many providers, and allows for encryption.


Revision mod has been out for ages, is free, and does a great overhaul of the original game.


Well it’s exactly what I asked for, can’t argue 😂
We settled on Puck for the name. It rhymes with what’s said when weird noises come from its direction…


Why not. I would love to see your detached robotic ass.


I printed special little stilts to raise one of our tables the 10mm extra it needed to be able to go under without getting wedged. It still tries fornicating with the cat tree - a different problem to solve.
Never lost it’s ass though, one to look out for there.
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.


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:





Best take.
Hard lessons taught for the kid - mum is a dumbass, and stay away from rotary tools.


Cheers for another month. Hope all continues to be well for you, your family and the team :)


Is your phone a zweihänder or something? I think the last time I reliably used a phone with both hands was back in the days of tapping out texts on a keypad in T9. Needed both thumbs for decent wpm.
Or I’m misreading and it’d get in the way of something else?
Right seems right for me, in both pocket and operation. Whatever works though, at the end of the day :)


So many doing front left for phone, that’s just weird to me unless you’re left handed.
Front Right: Phone
Back Left: Flattened & folded plastic shopping bag(s)
Back Right: Wallet
Belt Hooks: Keys
Front left is the ‘all the other shit’ pocket. Currently this contains:


Government Response:



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.
They are between builds.
B41 stable has been out for ages with multiplayer support. It’s the current version and what you get if you don’t opt in to experiential builds.
On unstable builds, the devs remove multiplayer initially until they think it’s good enough. B42 unstable is in active development and just recently added multiplayer support.
B42 is still a bug-ridden crapshoot though, stick with 41 if you want to play online.