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Re:Meow.camera by 0x3f on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:36PM (#47548601)
They're in China so there's some inherent latency, but it only takes about a second to load each stream for me (in Europe).
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Re:Meow.camera by nyoronic on Saturday March 28, 2026 @02:03AM (#47552045)
Only if someone else is streaming from the camera. If no one is, it goes to sleep and it takes noticably longer to connect.

When I looked at the site some months ago, I noticed during Chinese nighttime, a sleeping feeder would turn on its lights right after I connected (darkness for a second then a flash of light).

So maybe it's a cost-saving measure for the hardware?

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Re:Meow.camera by yawndex on Saturday March 28, 2026 @05:23AM (#47552977)
The feeders are battery powered, so they can't be always streaming 24/7 with lights on.
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