Comment by Eduard
1 day ago
- I have to change batteries of zigbee devices maybe every three years or so
- how often do you have to change your cameras' batteries, or are you accepting ugly wiring for powering from mains?
- how many cameras do you have installed to cover your home?
- IP cameras are flaky, too
- constantly sending images of one's private space to a cloud LLM is Orwellian
- are you polling your LLM minutewise "Did the cat vomit on the floor"?
> how often do you have to change your cameras' batteries, or are you accepting ugly wiring for powering from mains
Meh (a) I want security and cat-monitoring cameras anyway (b) I'm willing to take the effort to install cameras neatly since they're capable of serving as 100 different sensors
> constantly sending images of one's private space to a cloud LLM is Orwellian
I agree. I have a local server with a GPU. The security side of things records to a local NVR. Nothing goes to the cloud.
> IP cameras are flaky, too
haven't had nearly as many problems here
> are you polling your LLM minutewise "Did the cat vomit on the floor"?
Kind of, but it only re-polls if the camera detected motion, and then every 15 minutes as a catch-all.
agreed it's Orwellian. fortunately, open-weight VLMs you can run on a Mac mini or a strix Halo are more than adequate for this task.
PoE cameras solve all of the cameras problems. Just drag a cable, it's one time bother and if you're clever it won't be any uglier than camera itself