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- Comment on The kid is inventive 19 hours ago:
If only he could spell…
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 1 day ago:
ChatGPT 5.2 was one of the models, which appears to be a current model.
- Comment on Unifi Protect - Wife Approval Factor? +HA integration 3 days ago:
Not sure. I don’t really have working knowledge of ONVIF.
- Comment on Unifi Protect - Wife Approval Factor? +HA integration 4 days ago:
I keep seeing Reolink pop up. Would a Reolink doorbell work with a Unifi NVR?
Sort of. You can add most cameras that support ONVIF and they’ll be viewable and record just fine in Protect, but third party cameras won’t support detection unless you also add a Unifi AI Port. I also wouldn’t count on Unifi recognizing it as a doorbell for the purposes of two-way audio or for doorbell notifications. Those would likely have to be handled outside of Protect.
- Comment on Unifi Protect - Wife Approval Factor? +HA integration 4 days ago:
Oof. Didn’t realize they killed that one.
- Comment on Unifi Protect - Wife Approval Factor? +HA integration 4 days ago:
I’ve been running Protect since around Christmas on a UCG Fiber with a 2TB SSD, with a single G6 Turret recording 24/7 full 4k quality. As of right now, my recording history goes back to January 19th, or about 25 days. Based on that, rough napkin math would put 6 cameras at around 8 days of continuous FHD footage, by my estimate. Protect has per-camera settings that allow you to change retention policies, as well as choose between event-based recording, continuous, or adaptive, where it reduces recording quality for the uneventful majority of the time, then records full quality during events. These options would meaningfully increase recording storage time.
While I’m currently only running a single Unifi-branded camera, I have previously added four TPLink Tapo wifi cameras to Protect as well, though you have to enable an experimental setting to add third-party cameras.
Protect allows you to set up detections based on a wide range of events, I believe partially dependent on what camera model you use and what the camera can process internally. My G6 Turret can detect motion, people, vehicles, animals, license plates, faces, burglars, packages, glass breaking, sirens, car horns, dog barking, talking, etc. You can set motion zones to filter areas of the field of view for detections, you can set privacy blackout areas, and you can disable the microphone. Can’t compare detections to Ring, as I’ve only used Google Nest and Unifi Protect. I haven’t put a huge amount of effort into managing detections beyond setting a zone so I didn’t get notification spam… of which you can set push notifications and/or email notifications per detection type. It’s relatively easy and responsive to click through detection events in the app. Don’t know how much slower it would be on HDD storage.
As for the doorbell, I’ve been looking to switch from Nest to Unifi, but I’m waiting for the G6 Pro Entry. Since you can’t run Ethernet, have you considered the G4 wifi doorbell? It runs off of 24V AC that’s typically already running to the doorbell. If not, I’m sure you could kludge something together in Home Assistant.
As for the interface and wife-friendliness, the setup side of things can get you a bit lost, but the day-to-day usage is pretty intuitive. It’s easy to pick a camera and go into the detection history or scroll through the timeline.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 5 days ago:
I suspect it’s easier for them to say “you’re wrong” without backing up that assertion than to accept that this isn’t a completely safe way to implement solar without involving an electrician.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 6 days ago:
I’ve had more than a few classes on circuits throughout my schooling, from high school physics to my mechanical engineering college coursework. Please enlighten me as to where my logic is flawed.
Two sources wired in parallel can supply more current than either individual source can supply on its own. The wiring on each parallel branch will have identical voltage, and the converged branch will carry the sum of the currents. Total load of 20 amps exceeds the capacity of the wiring, breaker doesn’t see the full load and doesn’t trip.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 6 days ago:
I am accounting for that, that’s the whole point I’m making. Breaker is supplying 10 of its available 15 Amps, solar provides another 10 Amps, load downstream is drawing 20. Wiring between solar and load is carrying 20 Amps, but potentially rated for only 15.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 6 days ago:
See my other comment in reply to OP as to why this might be a bad idea.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 6 days ago:
I am not an electrical engineer, but based on OP’s description, it sounds like a solar panel that connects to an outlet in an existing circuit. Say you have a solar panel plugged into the first outlet on a 15-Amp circuit, with solar producing 1200 Watts of available power. Then you have a 10-Amp load plugged into the next outlet in the circuit, and another 10-Amp load plugged in further down the circuit. That 15-Amp circuit has wiring rated for 15 Amps. You have 20 amps of load, but the solar panel is providing half of that downstream from the circuit breaker. The breaker sees only 10 amps of load and doesn’t trip, though you have wiring downstream from the solar panel that’s carrying 20 Amps. This will start a fire.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 1 week ago:
Water cooled? Squirter confirmed.
- Comment on The BS they tell you to justify screwing you 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Do you backup your docker images? 2 weeks ago:
While I don’t necessarily have an issue with the intent of this bot, literally none of the initialisms listed were in the OP or any of the comments, as far as I can see.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 3 weeks ago:
Probably 4-6 months ago I finally reached my breaking point. Facebook used to be centered around friends. Sure, most of them are now dormant on the platform, but for those that were still active, they were still buried amongst piles of far-right bullshit that I never asked for and that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I clicked “see less like this.” I deleted the Android app and logged in via mobile browser. I still occasionally check the happenings in my industry’s Facebook groups and my HOA, but Facebook is otherwise dead to me.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 weeks ago:
Fair point
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 weeks ago:
The CEO can play golf better than an LLM
Computers can play golf better than a human, assuming you give them capable hardware to swing the club.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 1 month ago:
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 3 months ago:
Fair
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 3 months ago:
I tried to sanity-test the math here running the same calculations on a 700 kg horse, of which around 50% mass is muscle.
700 kg x 50% = 350 kg
Low:
350 kg x 100 W/kg = 35,000 W
35,000 W / 746 ≈ 47 hp
High:
350 kg x 200 W/kg = 70,000 W
70,000 W / 746 ≈ 94 hp
Despite what the term “horsepower” would seem to suggest, a horse can actually output more than one horsepower. Estimates put peak output of a horse around 12-15 hp. By those numbers, even the low end estimate above is around 3-4x too high. We’re gonna need more dogs.
- Comment on In your culture do you call it a teapot or a kettle? 3 months ago:
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 3 months ago:
As a Floridian, I have to use a VPN for that.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 3 months ago:
Pretty close to zero multiplied by billions of people yields results sometimes.
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- Comment on 4 months ago:
And it might be the only game where I have ever enjoyed proximity chat
Did we play the same Battlebit? I don’t remember much positivity coming out of proximity voice chat. Every match started with a flood of VOIP spam of screaming and loud, shitty music. It seems without fail, I’d spend the first 15 seconds of every match muting everyone that appeared in comms. At least the devs made that super easy.
Battlebit filled the hole I needed it to while I avoided BF2042; quite fun, but the population died off and it started feeling stale.
I might look into the update when it hits, but with a worth-playing new-release Battlefield, I’ll probably just stick to Battlefield.
- Comment on Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag 4 months ago:
They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.
She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.
She’s 22. Young? Sure. Little kid? No.
- Comment on Crap, not again! 4 months ago:
Crepe*
- Comment on The absolute WORST 4 months ago:
In high school I got an esophageal ulcer from an acne medication pill that got stuck. Do not recommend.
- Comment on need this pic without text please 5 months ago:
Add someone else stated, it’s Kari Byron of Mythbusters fame. Found this on her official Facebook page via Google image search for “Kari Byron.”
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 5 months ago:
Look into microphone jammers
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 5 months ago:
We have a one-car garage and two cars. I have a table saw, therefore we have a no-car garage.
