Episode 374: Ask Noah Show 374

This week Noah and Steve dig into alternatives to Axis for cameras. What can you buy that won't break the bank, but also has open source compatibility? Your questions go to the front of the line, and what if NextCloud had an email backend?

-- During The Show -- 01:10 Steve's WiFi/SSID problem

• Double NAT theory
• MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)

03:43 Mail-in-a-box - Joe

• Mail-in-a-box uses Nextcloud components
• Office in a box
  • Center around files or email
  • Nextcloud conversation
• Roundcube
• Microsoft support/blocking entire yahoo domain
• Mail partnership
• Write in about self hosted email

15:15 HDMI Capture card - Fred

• Blackmagic Decklink HDMI
  • No guarantee drivers will continue to be published
• PCI bandwidth
• Blackmagic Decklink Duo (SDI)
• Quad Bus USB Card
• Decimator
• VDO.ninja

20:17 Affordable USB DMX Controller - TwoBit

• DMX vs RGBW
• Hardware controllers
• DMXKing USB Adapter
• QLC+
• MIDI control
• WLED
• WLED DMX output doc
• Orbs, LED Walls, Christmas lights
• Chat Recommendation Enttec Open DMX USB
  • Thank You TwoBit!

27:25 News Wire

• Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta - Vanilla OS

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 - Ubports

• Firefox 122 Google Meet Fix - Fedora Project

• Ubuntu 24.04 Aiming for 6.8 Kernel - Phoronix

• NVIDIA 550 - Phoronix

• OpenWRT One - Toms Hardware

• Game Boy Homebrew - Gaming on Linux

• EU Cyber Resilience Act - Adafruit Blog

• White House Report - Cyber Scoop

• Vivante NPU - CNX Software

• Eco Libre Report - Eco Libre

• Google Cloud and Hugging Face - Data Center Dynamics

• New Greener AI Models - Tech Xplore

• Code Llama 70B - Venture Beat

29:00 Dash Boards

• Being more "pro" at home
• Dashy
  • Only tracks web end points
  • Beautiful UI
• Prometheus, Grafana
• Uptime Kuma
  • Strikes a middle ground
  • Variety of "end points"
  • Tracks over time
  • Layout
  • Settings stored in SQlite file
  • Has an API
• Use case
• Setup

38:27 Alternative Cameras

• Axis
  • Great
  • Expensive
  • Hard to find mounts
• RioLink
  • Lots of conflicting information
  • Depends on the model
  • Steve bought ReoLink E1 Outdoor Pro
  • Home Assistant auto detected ReoLink
  • Lots of sensors
  • Has "tracking" and "motion detection"
  • Home Assistant can update firmware
  • Has FTP setting
  • RioLink (Amazon)
  • RioLink PiPy API
  • Get a POE based camera
• You get what you pay for
• Do Not buy these cameras!
  • Hikvision/Dahua - The Intercept
  • Eufy - Ars Technica
  • Ring - EFF
• Used Axis is cheaper anyway
• Get cameras that follow a standard (ONVIF)
• ONVIF Conformant Products
• GeoVision (Amazon)
• Camera longevity

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