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we have Aliexpress $35 720p IP cameras and blue iris at the shop. It works pretty well, considering how cheap it is. By far, the biggest expense is the PC to run it all on. Also, the china cameras lose time and are kind of pieces of poo poo, but you don't notice once it's set up and Blue Iris is taking care of "details" like time.
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Slash posted:Care to link which model you've got? There's shitlaods on Aliexpress. We've got a few different ones, and they're all basically the same - same firmware, etc. If I had something better than an iPhone 5 running iOS 9 on throttled Cricket I'd look it up, but it's too painful to internet right now.
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Has anyone here played with Generic Thermostat? I think I'm doing things correctly but it never shows up as a device after a restart and I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting. I don't see anything *obvious* in the logs.
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VelociBacon posted:Thanks, what do you like about it compared to the Nest? Nest (and most other thermostats) can’t control line-level voltages that baseboard heater thermostats control. Regular thermostats use low-amp low-voltage signals to control relays and poo poo that your HVAC unit contains.
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Gangringo posted:This looks promising. At the very least I can tinker with it using the stuff I already have and see if it's remotely possible. If you don't mind a yearlong hobby + ongoing maintenance after that, Home Assistant + Node Red will let you use cheap commodity off-the-shelf hardware in basically any amazing way you choose. This guy has a pretty good buncha videos on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHookUp
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I hate so much about this recommendation, but Ring has *functionally* been a pretty great experience for my usage of two cameras at my apartment’s ingress/egress points. I keep meaning to buy a couple smart switches so I can automate turning them off when we’re home but settled on a fabric condom we put over when arriving home.
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neogeo0823 posted:Yeah, that's my bad, thank you for understanding. Poke around on this guy's channel, he does some good intro videos that'll get you started: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHookUp. I hate the cloudy internet of things as well, but for apartment ingress/egress stuff (I have a camera pointed at the entry door to watch for apartment people that may come in without us being there) it's kinda nice to not need to find a place for a server.
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