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Re:Amazon Ring Cameras Used in Nationwide ‘Swatting’ Spree by acidburnNSA on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:01PM (#34061390)
I love my on-prem ip cams, my on-prem server that does the YOLOv5 image recognition and long-term storage, my Home Assistant that triggers alerts and sends emails to my self-hosted e-mail server and blinks all my lights, my OpenVPN-on-the-openwrt router remote access technique, my self-hosted Seafile cloud, my self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV calendar and contacts, my mopidy/snapcast whole-home audio with local MP3s, my on-prem Jellyfin-interfaced movie library cobbled together from cheap ebay DVDs... It's a super fun hobby.

But I don't recommend any of it to anyone who doesn't want to make a serious hobby about of it.

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Re:Amazon Ring Cameras Used in Nationwide ‘Swatting’ Spree by Semaphor on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:17PM (#34061475)
> But I don't recommend any of it to anyone who doesn't want to make a serious hobby about of it.

Just to expand, it’s a scale ;) It’s very easy to have a few lights, maybe some presence detection and motion sensors, and make some automation for those without venturing into hobby territory.

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Re:Amazon Ring Cameras Used in Nationwide ‘Swatting’ Spree by kelnos on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:49AM (#34063776)
Hobby or not, it's just a shame that these sorts of setups, even the simple kinds that you describe, are too complicated to set up for most people. I wish it was more the norm that people could run things this way.
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Re:Amazon Ring Cameras Used in Nationwide ‘Swatting’ Spree by Semaphor on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:13AM (#34063913)
Something like Philips Hue is for those people. It’s Zigbee, but as long as you stay within their ecosystem, you get a lot of automagical features.
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Re:Amazon Ring Cameras Used in Nationwide ‘Swatting’ Spree by joshu on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:08AM (#34061779)
are you using frigate or what for the video?
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Re:Amazon Ring Cameras Used in Nationwide ‘Swatting’ Spree by acidburnNSA on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:23AM (#34061874)
I wrote my own Home Assistant custom component that's a thin wrapper around the YOLOv5 demo code. That's enough to detect objects as people, dogs, cats, etc. and trigger things in home assistant. I haven't seen frigate actually so I should check it out. Thanks.
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