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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • Any IP camera that supports the onvif standard. Chinese Dahau and Hisense have amazing image quality but do not trust them. Block their Mac address at your router and you’ll be fine.

    I really like Power over Ethernet IP cameras because it’s one cable for power and data. If it’s only one camera you buy a POE injector so you plug in power where it’s convenient and run Ethernet (that also delivers power) to the camera. For multiple cameras, get a POE switch. On the software side, DWSpectrum, Frigate, or Shinobi for Linux. If you want it to work without any hassle, BlueIris for Windows is great.

    The Dahau and Hisense cameras I’ve used have their own recording capabilities so you can get by without even a Linux PC running Network Video Recording software like I listed above.








  • Used servers/workstations are likely more reliable than new consumer.

    They were very likely kept temperature controlled, have ECC, and are actually known working instead of something like Asus. If I remember correctly, PC mortality is very high the first 6 months, goes down to near zero for 5 years, then starts going back up.

    Replace the SSD/hard drive and you are good. You might not even have to do that. I checked the stats on the SSD that came with my used Lenovo workstation and it had like 20 hours on it.