Rusty shackleford, checking in

How do you handle the plex metadata side of things? I’m trying to do something similar.

Fwiw I use a fork called Apollo because it enables a headless setup

You got it! Best of luck with the baby

There are multiple wifi-connected solar powered cameras that will do the motion-activation, IR night mode, etc. thing that you’re asking for, that you can just drop into a location, but they won’t be self hosted.

Unfortunately pretty much everything you’d self host takes time and finagling, it’s just the price of privacy/independence. I know you’re asking for a self hosted solution but that will be difficult with little free time. I’ve been running frigate for a year and I still can’t get some object detection masks to properly ignore detections.

You’ll want to be running frigate, a self hosted nvr solution.

Camera wise, you’ll probably want a power over Ethernet (poe) amcrest or hikvision camera for continuous video to be sent to the nvr to do the detection. A list of recommended hardware is found here.

I’ll be honest though, depending on where this is you might be better off with a non-self hosted setup. For example, reolink makes several battery/solar powered wifi cameras that record on motion, shooting notifications to your phone. No cables to run

The only annoyance I’ve had with it is searches will sometimes default to another language, even though I set the language to only return English results.

Also, I’ve found that the image/map search capabilities are less performant than googles.

But I still use it because the search results are so clean and no-frills.

This seems like a great way to be fired for a misunderstanding. It’s not worth it.

It’s not mentioned in the reporting, but according to the source they say it is going to be opt-in (or at least something with opt-in in mind)

Do you worry about the sus new maintainer for syncthing-fork on android?

But at least they’re paid

Seconding the request for details - how do you know?

Given the need for a dash cam to be reliable, this is one place where I’d suggest considering a typical commercial offering over a cobbled together self hosted solution.

EDIT: I misunderstood - i thought you were planning to use your phone as a dash cam but instead you’re just wondering about getting the data off a commercial dash cam!

What does budget friendly mean to you?

I’d say def try searxng first. It turns out I mainly wanted a clean display of results instead of “better” results then Google. No ads, no ai shit. Kagi was nice but the difference didn’t justify a paid service for me, vs selfhosting.

I will say that I find searxng image search to be lacking, same with maps.

I was looking into team speak and found this video that captures someone else’s experience.

Tldw; lots of super neat features, some clunky interfaces that maybe highlight how used to discord we’ve gotten

You know how your favorite show got pulled by Netflix, and you can’t find it without subscribing to another service?

I self host to take control of that back.

Unfortunately you’ll have to do your own research, I only know this exists and have never used it because my vacuum is incompatible.

In case anyone’s interested, there’s actually open-source self-hosted robot vacuum firmware for select models

Gotcha that does match my impression.

You’re right though, there’s value in it being a drop-in replacement for discord. Along those lines, I’m very excited for cinny, a matrix discord-like frontend. There’s a PR for voice calls that I check every now and then, the moment that goes in I’ll be trying to convince my friends to hop over.