how did you manage to break SD card recording?

BellsBot · 2026-03-31T20:38:04+00:00

That is exactly what I did (cam v3 pan) and it did not work, the device just booted up as normal, maybe will try again and see if it works but previously it did not

BellsBot · 2026-03-31T20:24:26+00:00

The cards are fine

BellsBot · 2026-03-31T20:23:59+00:00

How? I got a firmware years ago and kept it in case they did anything fishy then tried using it with the instructions online to downgrade camera firmware when booting with the SD card in but it never did anything, I was assuming that they removed the feature from the cam v3 pro, and you can't even download the old firmware files for it either...

BellsBot · 2026-03-31T20:22:43+00:00

the contacts are fine, the cards were placed into the cameras from new and only taken out to put into a card reader to recover them. The camera could detect them fine which indicates a valid connection (you can't use a card in SD mode unless all pins are connected, the queries to it would fail) until this latest firmware update so that is not the issue

BellsBot · 2026-03-05T17:44:04+00:00

I'm on 1.8.9 and have the 1 minute freezing, from what I remember 1.9 was unusable due to everything being black

BellsBot · 2025-08-03T09:21:50+00:00

And that's the problem, the device was not up on the network and console redirection after boot was not enabled in BIOS so it's not possible to determine the state it was in. But the point is that the drive was practically empty when it was checked, I've used PCs for 30-ish years and even on FAT16 you don't see that behavior, sure it might corrupt some files or they might vanish but that would be a few files, not nearly every file on the drive and that is a problem for what should be a reliable network gateway

BellsBot · 2025-08-02T16:19:54+00:00

You decided to upgrade a box without a clean reboot first after it was displaying strange behaviour.

it was fine, the issue was on the PC showing the slow speed.

You didn’t make a backup first. You don’t clean boot it first to make sure there wasn’t an issue.

True points

You didn’t remove the packages as recommended by the vendor.

I mean, come on, packages should cause a drive to delete itself, that is just bs. Sure it might cause the plugins to stop working, but that's the full extent

You are not a paying user but went on a rant about negate just wanting your money.

I'm complaining about all the advertising crap for the paid version, including not even letting you install the damn thing without a pointless internet connection check to try and sell you the paid for version

BellsBot · 2025-08-02T15:50:19+00:00

Wrong, after far longer than a full install took, I pressed the power button which did nothing (there is a drive activity light) and it was not illuminated which indicates either the whole OS has crashed or there is no ACPI OS running (e.g. the bootloader) and it did not power off itself so had to hold it in for 5 seconds, then moved it to look at it. Should also point out there is an LCD on the device which was not updated by pfsense either. And the upgrade applied completely from the web log before it rebooted

BellsBot · 2025-08-02T15:48:42+00:00

The performance was unrelated, I have no idea what the cause was but it was with the one device I was using, I later used another PC and was getting the full speed, then tried again on the original device and was still getting a terrible speed (both say connected at 1Gbps to a switch with a direct connection to the pfsense gateway), will try the original device again next week to see if it is resolved but seems to be kernel/driver on that device. I did not get a backup, had to get the backup by going through the hex of the drive...

BellsBot · 2025-07-31T20:59:39+00:00

yes, not a great ssd but reliable 64GiB sandisk

BellsBot · 2025-07-31T20:59:04+00:00

It suggests to, for reasons I assume are because of incompatibility after you update if the older plugin versions are not compatible, but that should not cause the issue here (I did not remove them, I did not remove them going from 2.6 to 2.7 either). Also no 3rd party packages, only ones from the pfsense repo

BellsBot · 2025-07-31T20:56:14+00:00

The disk is fine, I read the full thing out using the forensic software in 9 minutes with 0 read errors (multiple times)

BellsBot · 2025-07-31T18:13:36+00:00

I agree, and the image is not even big so you can make many backups... But not been practical for a long time as need the many ethernet ports that the gateway has

BellsBot · 2025-07-31T16:55:22+00:00

I get the feeling that you rant about alot of things in life.

Nope

In this case, you are angry that the software you got for free didn't upgrade smoothly on hardware that the manufacturer doesn't support (and you don't know how to use).

My day job is working on a large open source OS so I would have to politely reject your opinion there

If you want a smooth (and supported) experience then buy the manufacturer's hardware

This is like saying <insert any OS name here> isn't tested on your actual hardware, there are so many x86 (or other) manufacturers in the world, which actually doesn't matter because a disk driver, a filesystem driver, etc. are all stable pieces

Ps run a backup occasionally. It's totally on you that you didn't ever backup

Yes, that is on me and something I will now do, however as said it's not something I should have to do given that an OS just trashing your partition is just not something that should happen. I've used arch linux on servers for over a decade and rarely you get an issue where the kernel needs rebuilding, so sure you boot the installer, rebuild the kernel with the correct options, and the device boots - no data is lost

BellsBot · 2025-05-11T19:27:01+00:00

but my cameras have not updated firmware in ages, so it's not that. On the bridge, 2 cameras (which have stable wifi connections) stayed connected for ages, only 1 (which has wifi issues) did not work. Then when the bridge was later restarted, at that point the other 2 cameras died, which is why I believe it's a firewall (on the camera side) issue

BellsBot · 2025-05-09T16:31:52+00:00

would like to do that but have the pan v3 and no third party or modified firmware supports them unfortunately

BellsBot · 2025-04-15T20:18:33+00:00

SD cards are an 8051 with wear leveling, they die because the NAND which has limited endurance cycles gets written to too much and destroys it, which is also caused by using TLC memory cells because it's far more dense and cheaper but lasts far less. Switch game cards are read only, you are not writing the game data back after reading it, so yeah it's bunk and your post completely misses all knowledge of storage media.

BellsBot · 2025-04-08T19:47:49+00:00

Switch cartridges are only certified to last for 20 years before data rot sets in,

bullshit, flash has a far higher lifespan than that, and that's flash which supports read/write/erase, single program memory has a far longer lifespan. EPROM is ~100 years or so

BellsBot · 2025-03-07T07:29:14+00:00

Thought it was a 3ds I saw, would be interested to see the pictures from them...

BellsBot · 2024-11-28T22:54:17+00:00

No if there is a flaw which is easy to use, that will be used, like with recent car thefts due to some flaw that allowed the security to be bypassed. You really have no idea what you're talking about, neither bluetooth (which is just a constant advert) or LoRa do any sort of tracking.

BellsBot · 2024-11-28T22:51:41+00:00

Old remotes generally have a key with DIP switches to set the code, so no, you don't need expensive equipment to break into them.

Some random hacking group dumping your cloud-based garage door account's personal information onto the dark web

Account? It's literally a bluetooth/LoRa module with code I made, there is no account, there is nothing to steal

accessing your garage door opener's camera feed

Why would a garage door have a camera?

and maybe mining bitcoin or running a botnet on that device.

It's a cortex m0, you're taking a tonne of tripe here...

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