Yep. The models I have don’t have motion detection.

You can probably find a visual walkthrough of the GUI by searching youtube.

There’s a login page. After you authenticate, there’s a live view page, a review/recordings page if you are recording to SD card in camera, and a few settings pages.

I’d say you could absolutely access the camera standalone, but at least the cameras I have don’t do any detection or notifications. That’s where the NVR comes in. I know reolink has cameras that do all of the above including AI detection.

I know you’re in zigbee, but I’ve tested many different wall switches and IMO Zooz Zwave switches are the best option.

They’re cheap, reliable, and most importantly don’t cause LED lights to flicker like every other brand I’ve tested. They also have replaceable paddles so you can change the color of the paddles. I purchased black paddles and used a sand blaster to make them matte like the rest of the outlets and plates around my apartment.

Inovelli is also great however those switches are overkill for most situations and very pricey.

I use a bunch of Amcrest PoE cameras. None with PTZ though. I run them to a dedicated box running frigatenvr. From there I allow access from Homeassistant with the frigate integration.

IP cameras allow you to access the device via web gui where you can view and configure the camera for your needs. Once I’ve set them up I only ever access them again through frigate.

ELI5 please. What are the benefits over unbound?

I’m not familiar with the VM method. I’m installing through the addons menu in Homeassistant after running the HACS installation script per the documentation.

I use Amcrest PoE dome cameras with frigate. Quality and price are excellent. My only complaints would be the dome cameras get dirty fast and at night the IR light from inside reflects off of the dirt and makes them useless. Frigate also seems pretty bad at detecting things in night vision mode. And yes, I’ve already made the recommended adjustments in my frigate config.

I considered this. But unfortunately my meter has a large dial that slowly passes over the numbers, obscuring it. Also it’s rusting really bad.

Do you need to use tailscales server for anything (like certs)?

I want to try to set up a network but prefer keeping everything 100% self-hosted.

I use ZHA and so far everything works perfectly and it’s easy to add new devices. I only really use Zooz products for my zwave network though.

Bingo! Feeling a bit stupid for missing that but thankfully that was the issue and now everything is working perfectly. Thank you.

The issue with soldering I was trying to convey is that it isn’t an ideal process to make connections “in the field”, aka in a tight corner or behind a cabinet. A proper connection is solid, but it’s not feasible to make a proper connection if you’re upside down under a cabinet or standing at the top of a ladder.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

This seems like it. Thank you.

Do you think the JST SM connectors are the best option for this application?

amazonads has already been blocked but I just blocked amazon and waiting to see if that does the trick.

I haven’t.

Yep. Also as extra protection from any phoning home to Topaz. It’s not possible run the software firewalled, since it needs to download the AI models once you try to run anything.

I tried a couple but had no luck running them in VMs so I gave up.

You suggested just adding the ISOs to local-lvm. Do you think it would be feasible to simply delete the local storage completely and then extend the local-lvm after, storing the ISOs there? I know extending volumes is much simpler than shrinking. And I imagine deleting completely is also easier than shrinking?

It’s really that much of a hassle to fiddle with the volume sizes?