<div dir="ltr">WRT cameras: Last week I replaced all my cameras with newer ReoLink<div>devices and the ReoLink NVR and have been pretty happy with it.</div><div>They have quite the camera selection now, I went with their PoE wired</div><div>cameras with low-light sensitivity, and their app is acceptable.</div><div><br></div><div>My switch is an older Aruba 2530, with PoE+ for around $100 on ebay.</div><div>It's a good gig switch with 2x 10gig SPF slots, runs fairly quiet unless</div><div>it gets hot.</div><div><br></div><div>I previously ran Montavue (Hikvision VAR) cameras, they were ok, good</div><div>low light sensitivity but viewing on phones was kind of a pain. I had both</div><div>their NVR and was running BlueIris. Prior to that I had Ubiquiti which</div><div>had a really great app but the whole system ended up bricking itself</div><div>during a firmware upgrade 3-4 years in with no way to fix it.</div><div><br></div><div>If I get any cycles, I'd like to play with HomeAssistant integration, the</div><div>AI detection on the cameras triggering events might be interesting. But</div><div>let's be honest, 90% of what I use the cameras for is saving videos of the</div><div>kids or pets doing silly things.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 7:34 PM Bob Proulx <<a href="mailto:bob@proulx.com" target="_blank">bob@proulx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">j dewitt wrote:<br>
> What: Tuesday October 8th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting<br>
<br>
I began the meeting with the continuing saga of my dealing with WiFi<br>
on my laptop. Because it took me a little finagling to get connected<br>
to WiFi at the FCCH. The short summary is that I am test driving<br>
wpa-gui (wpa_gui/wpagui) as an alternative to connman. It works. But<br>
for some reason wpa_cli launched by wpa_gui will detect an AP<br>
disconnect glitch and then will start a fresh dhclient in the<br>
reconnect cycle. That's fine. But it forgets to stop the previous<br>
dhclient first! Which ends up with two dhclients running each<br>
fighting with the other.<br>
<br>
Then we talked a little bit about small machines for use with<br>
firewalls. The cool kids are using 2.5Gbps multi-gig adaptors now. I<br>
am still languishing with plain 1 GigE network.<br>
<br>
Alex talked a little bit about Arch. Arch is a rolling release OS.<br>
Has been updating his Linode VM regularly but hasn't been rebooting<br>
it. Realized hasn't rebooted in a long time. So behind on kernel<br>
upgrades. Need to reboot more often.<br>
<br>
David has a managed switch that had a PoE port. Thought it was a PoE<br>
out to power a camera but instead that port was PoE in to power the<br>
switch. Had to shop for a PoE injector for the camera. Has a couple<br>
of cameras working. Setting up a camera security system at his house.<br>
Currently looking in the garage at the car. (I joked it was on mouse<br>
patrol.) Running "motion" on each camera to trigger on any motion<br>
events.<br>
<br>
Phil is working on software to do plots and take data for testing.<br>
QCustomPlot is some software he is demo'ing which uses Qt. It<br>
produced Smith Charts and other very nice charting.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.qcustomplot.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qcustomplot.com/</a><br>
<br>
Mark is working on a project to consolidate some of his system. Put<br>
all of the eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. And<br>
humorously at different times two of us recommended against using the<br>
firewall for NAS storage too. But anyway it's a pfsense firewall plus<br>
NAS plus everything. Kirk counter-recommended a cheap bare metal<br>
purchase of something cheap and using it for a dedicated firewall.<br>
There was some, enthusiasm shall we say, about the issue of combining<br>
the firewall with other services.<br>
<br>
Stephen is still FCCH president for another 48 hours and then he can<br>
return to do fun stuff again. Stephen as been working with ESP32<br>
devices for use with RFID readers. He is working on creating a more<br>
kit-like DIY RFID reader system that people could just build and use<br>
for this purpose. Mentions that MDNS now works on Android and uses<br>
it.<br>
<br>
Bob has been grinding through tedious tasks. Been debugging cgit the<br>
git web server browser. This is totally crazy because this cgit<br>
software is used by everyone everywhere for git server browsing. But<br>
on GNU Savannah's software forge it totally mangles the index links.<br>
Why? Figuring that out has been the task. I have been stepping<br>
through the C code in the gdb debugger. Have isolated the problem<br>
down to the caching management code. (It's always a cache problem!)<br>
Disabling the cache avoids the problem so that's the initial<br>
workaround. Performance has been very good even without the cache.<br>
<br>
I have been continuing pushing through system upgrades. The FSF is<br>
all about Trisquel so mostly this has been upgrading from Trisquel 9<br>
to Trisquel 11.<br>
<br>
cgit bugs<br>
git Trisquel upgrade<br>
munin<br>
11 glitch, btrfs<br>
<br>
Morey has recently assembled a prototype Machine Learning software to<br>
listen to voice and translate it to text. Speech to text. The goal<br>
being to be able to talk to the machine, talk to someone else in the<br>
room, return to talking to the machine, and it will know the<br>
difference between the two conversations. It can read text back in a<br>
variety of voices. This allows a true voice interface in and out of<br>
the computer. This is all work being done for a friend of Morey's.<br>
It's all being done with Free Software and off the shelf hardware and<br>
software. I feel that I am not summarizing Morey's information very<br>
well. Which probably proves I am not just a LLM ML model and actually<br>
listening and typing in these notes extemporaneously.<br>
<br>
Kirk has been moving his Internet servers. Kirk says that his hosting<br>
site shutdown networking suddenly and notified him that they were now<br>
closed from business. Now. What?! Mad scramble to get a static IP<br>
at his house. Then relocate all of the servers and services to his<br>
basement, ahem, his underground facility. The goal now is to find a<br>
different location but with the immediacy of this it all went into his<br>
basement in order to get everything back online. Home power pricing<br>
then became a topic.<br>
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