Aotearoa / New Zealand

I think I haven't mentioned I installed a security camera, frigate, and connected it up to Home Assistant. Haven't got a coral yet, seems they are hard to come by right now, but I installed frigate on my server that's an ex-gaming machine - it handles the load OK but my graphics card doesn't seem to be supported so it's using CPU detection. I'll probably get a coral when I can to solve that.

One thing I learnt is just how bad of an idea it is to try to run a cable from the outer corner an eave. Turns out the inside of the eaves are not part of the ceiling cavity as I had assumed. I got it in the end but it was pretty hard work 😅

I put it up in my back yard. I actually want it out the front so it can tell me about people arriving, couriers dropping things off, and apparently if you get Frigate+ you can have it tell you if you forget to put your wheelie bin out! However, I installed this one in the back yard because I expected to struggle and didn't want the neighbours to watch me spend all day trying to run one cable - which given how it turned out I think was a good call 😆

I also only got a cheap one to play with. It's 4MP and does the job but I think I'd like a higher resolution one for the front so I can play with facial and number plate recognition. I also think I made the wrong call getting a 4mm instead of 2.8mm, as it doesn't have as wide of a viewing range as I was expecting.