blue iris is so clunky and inelegant and I keep seeing it reach out to weird things on the internet that I've never been happy about. There's also some weird update server in china that keeps trying to push something to it I've been blocking for years and it just keeps trying it. I get that its kind of the gold standard here but it has enough negatives and nothing it offers over anyone else is relevant here so I can move to something else.
We actually were going to use ubuntu years ago when this first started as was supposed to be running shinobi but there was something about the cameras that was incompatible, I cant remember what though. Anyways, Ubuntu server is an option, but I'd like to avoid canonical too.
tapo cameras do. mine all went offline and factory reset themselves after not having internet access or even accounts for several months, all at the same time.
It primary purpose is to drive security cameras. it's proven to be an enormous unreliable pain in the ass that bogs down when running windows over time and theres nothing windows does better that this is involved in so I'm pulling the plug on that.
Its not running windows server, just win11 pro. and its doing it really. there is zero reason for it to be as slow as it is.
I already have a few local techs that know linux that can step in if something happens to me.
Also, I have long term concerns about windows considering what MS is doing with AI and the regime we are currently under and I'd like to insulate them from as much of that fallout as possible.
Yes, but fedora server has cockpit and I can swing that or proxmox to do that same thing so either way this is doable. I’m still planning this all out.
The server was overbuilt years ago and I want to give it more responsibilities this time around. They currently have a dying all in wone pc that just runs iheartradio all day I tot he speakers int eh store and that seems wasteful to me. The server is running all the time anyway so I want to just fold that into its responsibilities. Give int a nice simple webUI is a just a bonus.
Seriously, MQTT on your home server or router or whatever and let things talk to eachother THERE. Keep the conversation INSIDE the LAN. This cloud shit is all about building expensive, unnesscarry dependencies.
All IoT devices do this to keep you from blocking their data collection. They won’t work reliably without a regular ping home. They lock up if they can’t phone home frequently enough.
Apple is a little too strict on what options they present to the user, I agree, but they do have 1 good rule they (usually) follow for it.
Does this solve a problem? If yes, try to make it idiot proof before letting others access it because we are going to have to support this thing. If not, don’t expose it to the user so we can keep that premium Fischer-price signal to noise ratio.
Sam’s Club doesn’t use windows for their machines. The self checkout uses some pervert proprietary version of Linux and the registers for humans have some java powered thing. No windows.
Like it or not, Apple makes great hardware, especially now. They are evil though, and their software is definitely in decline. But the hardware is great.
blue iris is so clunky and inelegant and I keep seeing it reach out to weird things on the internet that I've never been happy about. There's also some weird update server in china that keeps trying to push something to it I've been blocking for years and it just keeps trying it. I get that its kind of the gold standard here but it has enough negatives and nothing it offers over anyone else is relevant here so I can move to something else.