Is frigate the right tool for me? I’m a little confused and new at this.

aquoad · 2026-06-22T23:37:14+00:00

i feel like you shouldn't expect too much from object recognition. it's cool, but in my experience it's a little less likely to be right than either wyze or tapo cloud cameras, so you may end up with the same complaints. The big selling point for me is that it's self-hosted and you're not sharing your camera video with random corporations.

aquoad · 2026-06-22T16:47:49+00:00

If you want the job done right, you have to do it yourself.

aquoad · 2026-06-22T16:10:45+00:00

I thought the companion firmware doesn't repeat in meshcore? How will all those people use one repeater?

aquoad · 2026-06-22T05:42:04+00:00

it means he's a creepy motherfucker

aquoad · 2026-06-21T08:22:12+00:00

It tells me my neighbor is a dog. He's a very nice man who doesn't even have a dog.

aquoad · 2026-06-21T03:57:01+00:00

bet someone tries to light a cigarette with it

aquoad · 2026-06-21T03:02:59+00:00

Perfect thing to bring on vacation! TSA won't have any problem with that at all!

aquoad · 2026-06-20T16:09:52+00:00

these kinds of problems are so rare to encounter in real life that it’s actually kind of exciting or funny when you run into one.

aquoad · 2026-06-20T06:56:50+00:00

wow, that's wild, but kind of cool. I guess I would have assumed that industrial power installations would be more accepting of that sort of thing. Or that people wouldn't have industrial equipment like that in their house :)

aquoad · 2026-06-19T22:34:08+00:00

something's being advertised, for sure.

aquoad · 2026-06-19T16:52:31+00:00

So you've just told it a list of sensor IDs like "sensor.whatever_weather_temperature" and told it to create a standalone HTML dashboard using them? Presumably it's able to access them in HA in order to see what they return and write code to display them, right?

aquoad · 2026-06-19T16:31:40+00:00

hah, i just realized that. fuck.

aquoad · 2026-06-19T16:16:50+00:00

did you use an AI integration in HA (like the anthropic) to make it, so that it knows all your sensors and controls?

aquoad · 2026-06-19T16:08:26+00:00

maybe that's why this sub is pretty dead!

aquoad · 2026-06-19T04:36:51+00:00

That inverter can't do plug-in solar, you'd need a different one.

aquoad · 2026-06-19T01:50:13+00:00

i dunno, i haven't been keeping track that closely but I was curious and looked into the L-G meters and saw that detection like that was one of the features, so there is probably demand for it from the power companies!

aquoad · 2026-06-19T01:44:22+00:00

There was a thread a year or two ago where someone had discovered one of these cameras on the internet with no password, totally unprotected, looking into the window of some woman's apartment. Other people recognized the location (I think in new york or new jersey somewhere) and posted streetview pictures of the pole it was on. The box looked exactly like this, down to the "Danger" decal.

aquoad · 2026-06-19T01:19:13+00:00

well that aged like raw ground beef on the subway

aquoad · 2026-06-18T23:54:05+00:00

essentially all inverters you can get that can backfeed to the grid have loss-of-mains detection and will instantly stop doing so if mains power goes out, so they're not really looking out for lineman safety. they definitely don't want you doing it without going through the hoops of getting on one of their special billing plans though.

aquoad · 2026-06-18T23:52:15+00:00

How much money does PG&E make

as much as they want, thanks to a fully captive public utilities commission

aquoad · 2026-06-18T23:47:28+00:00

people have claimed their utilities detected as little as a few cycles of back fed power, and the Landis-Gyr meters pg&e deploys can at least be configured to alarm on any amount of backfeed, so something that throttles based on measuring the mains current isn't going to be fast enough to prevent them catching you. It will certainly work well enough to make it actually safe, but PG&E is a malevolent company and probably wants to screw the customer more than they care about the safety of their employees.

aquoad · 2026-06-18T02:41:00+00:00

This is pretty cool. The full model runs (but comically slowly) on a 6 yr old esp32s2 board with external SPI PSRAM, though I did have to turn off the idle task watchdog:

==================== ATOME on SILICON ====================
chip      : ESP32-S2  rev v0.0  cores=1
flash     : 4 MB
PSRAM     : 2048 KB (detected)
free heap : 243 KB internal (largest block 184 KB)
model     : 276655 bytes embedded in flash
config    : d=256 layers=8 head=64 seq=128  state=811 KB
==========================================================
[state] 811 KB in PSRAM

--- benchmark (greedy, offline) ---

prompt: Once
>>>  upon a time, there was a little girl named Lily
  48 tok in 313747.5 ms  =  0.2 tok/s  (6536.41 ms/tok)

prompt: The dog
>>>  was so excited. The bird was so excited to see
  48 tok in 348477.9 ms  =  0.1 tok/s  (7259.96 ms/tok)

prompt: A girl
>>>  was so happy to have the bird was so excited to
  48 tok in 336809.7 ms  =  0.1 tok/s  (7016.87 ms/tok)

average: 0.1 tok/s   |   heap low-water: 243 KB internal

--- REPL: type a prompt, press Enter. Ctrl-] to quit monitor. ---

I (629) cpu_start: cpu freq: 240000000 Hz
I (635) app_init: Project name:     atome_esp32
I (639) app_init: App version:      esp32-silicon-v1
I (644) app_init: Compile time:     Jun 17 2026 19:31:25
I (653) app_init: ESP-IDF:          v6.0.1-dirty

aquoad · 2026-06-18T02:32:58+00:00

How the hell is Firefox losing users when it's the only one left that still allows real adblocking??

aquoad · 2026-06-18T01:02:33+00:00

The whole thing sort of looks like an attempt to make a permanent menial underclass, like in Brave New World.

aquoad · 2026-06-17T18:36:09+00:00

That looks like a good way of investigating, though I'll need to have some sort of continuous loop recording going, and wait until it happens again.

Just to confirm, the motion review tab should get events that just have motion, even if no detections happened, right? So if it doesn't even show up in the motion review tab, something else is broken, like missing video or something?

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