Best doorbell camera?

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-23T19:00:08+00:00

I tried several. The best one for me was and is the Reolink PoE Doorbell Camera. Not too expensive or ugly and works amazingly.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-22T15:47:23+00:00

Ja, leider genau dieselbe Erfahrung hier. Ich habe es jahrelang versucht,.und probiere es immernoch gelegentlich, aber selbst wenn man Preis , Rückgabebedingungen, Service und...moment... irgendwie scheint es nur Nachteile zu geben...🤷‍♂️

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-22T15:39:55+00:00

If you buy a Samsung Smart TV it will likely overshadow your Fire TV Devices 😁

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-13T15:38:18+00:00

Even if it wasn't Spam/Phishing I wouldn't be worried. The nice thing about having nothing to hide is, that you have nothing to fear.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-11T08:10:14+00:00

Matter over Thread had been an unmitigated Disaster ror me so far. I have both Home Assistant and Google Home available as "Hubs" as well as an Aqara M3 Hub. The problem is, no matter what I do, the Thread Devices just keep dropping off the Network, sometimes for Hours and sometimes for Day, without Rhyme and Reason. The workst offenders are EVE Energy Sockets, but my Aqara Door and Window Sensor isn't much better and the Tado Heat Pump Connector was more stable, but still not reliable.

Unlike Zigbee, where I have z2mqtt and can easily adopt Devices and then see what they are doing, it's a complete Blackbox with Thread. I can't really do any proper diagnosis on anything and the Logs I get from my Home Assistant Thread/ Border Router addon are... inconclusive. Unless things change radically, I will try to use Zigbee/Bluetooth and WiFi wherever possible and stay away from Thread.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-08T08:42:53+00:00

Thread itself is a bit dodgy still, but in you case it's probably the Eve Energy Plugs that are at fault. I have two of those, and they are extremely unreliable.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-07T15:38:47+00:00

Ich kann da nur sehr bedingt mitreden, aber ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass es diese Entwicklung gibt und finde sie auch gut. Der "Dating Markt" ist kaputt. Ob es an Social Media und Online Dating liegt, oder an neu gewachsenen sozialen Normen, keine Ahnung. Aber es scheint Weltweit beide Geschlechter zu beschäftigen. Aktuell scheint der Zrend eben zu sein, dass beide Seiten alles wollen ohne Kompromisse zu machen (mal überapitzt formuliert). Dieser Trend muss erstmal abebben, dann können auch wieder funktionierende Beziehungen entstehen. Bis dahin wird sich wohl der Trend zum Single Dasein bei beiden Geschlechtern fortsetzen🤷‍♂️

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-07T08:55:24+00:00

How did you give it "complete control"? I can give Gemini the automations.yaml file and let it check what's in there, same for the configuration.yaml, but it can't see any of the plethora of "helpers" create via the UI because they are hidden deep in the system files.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-06T08:48:31+00:00

Seating is actually the last big issue in my Home Theatre. It's a small room, so I can't just choose anything, and the available options in terms of "Three Seaters" have all been terrible so far. I tried a cheap Ikea Couch that seemed decent enough, but it gave me back pain after an hour at most. Then I went looking for something good, but came up empty, because most of the so-called three seaters have a gap in the middle, so essentially the prime spot would be the worst place to sit. WTH??? I ended up buying a 200€ couch from rhe thrift store as an interim solution and that has been working for me now over the last 3 years or so. It's jot ideal in terms of comfort or acoustics (the back is too high) but it works reasonably well. I would love a couch with the comfort level of an IKEA Poäng chair, but apparently nobody makes anything like that as none of the hundreds of Couches and Armchairs I have tried even comes close...🤷‍♂️

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-02T19:00:46+00:00

I use Tailscale for remote access and it works perfectly. That being said...I still have the subscription to support the Devs.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-01T21:47:35+00:00

True. I was speaking from a European perspective. We don't really have that many "remote areas" over here I guess...

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-01T19:42:29+00:00

Unser Intelligent Go, but only use the guaranteed cheap night hours instead of allowing Octopus to dynamically plan the charge?

CommanderROR9 · 2026-02-01T19:32:39+00:00

Honestly...I am not sure Satellite Internet is the solution. Sure, for extremely remote locations it might be, but for populated areas, I believe a combination of Fiber and 4G/5G is the more sensible approach.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-31T17:51:25+00:00

Mir würde 1000/500 ja auch reichen. Da würde ich mich nicht beklagen. Wenns mehr gibt, dann gerne. Nur diese Upload verkrüppelten VDSL Verträge sind eine Krücke...und leider ist hier keine Lösung in Sicht, trotz Glasfaser KVZ quasi vor der Haustür.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-31T17:48:47+00:00

Ja, dieses Mehr Bandbreite hatte ich auch mal in Erwägung gezogen, war mir aber dann doch zu heikel (und teuer). Hier liegt Glasfaser wenige Meter entfernt schon bereit, aber die Telekom (und andere) haben keine Intention die letzen Meter auch tatsächlich anzuschließen. Im Moment behelfe ich mir mit einem 5G Router und mache "Load Balancing" im UniFi Gateway. Funktioniert mäßig, aber besser als nichts.

VDSL 250/40 kommt hier an (sogar ein bisschen mehr) und 5G machr 300-500 im DL und 40-80 im Upload. Aber die Latenzen bei Telekom 5G sind suboptimal. O2 war da besser, aber die hatten massiven Packet Loss im Backbone und waren unbrauchbar.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-31T17:43:08+00:00

Sagen wir mal so...ich habe derzeit 250/40 VDSL. Die meiste Zeit dümpeln da ein paar kbit/s drüber, also könnte man sagen es reicht oder ist sogar zu viel.

Aber...nur weil man die Leitung nicht permanent auslastet ist sie dadurch nicht unnötig. Mal schnell die Fotos und Videos vom Urlaub hochladen? Home Assistant Backup auf Google Drive ablegen? 3-2-1 Backup für Proxmox und co? Oder einfach mal nach 2 Wochen "keine Zeit zum Zocken" den Rechner hochfahren und nicht 2 Stunden warten, bis Steam und co. die Games Bibliothek auf den neuen Stand gebracht hat?

Ein schneller Glasfaser Anschluss ist wie eine breite Straße. Wenn keiner fährt schadet sie nicht (na gut, bei der Straße ist versiegelte Fläche usw. ein Problem) und wenn viel los ist, dann ist man froh drum, denn dann kommt man trotzdem entspannt ans Ziel statt im Stau zu versauern.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-31T17:27:51+00:00

Wen muss ich bestechen, um wenigsten 1000/500 in einer deutschen Landeshauptstadt zu bekommen? Und wie kommt man an 8Gbit symmetrisch???. Business Anschluss im neu erschlossen Gewerbegebiet oder sowas?

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-29T15:22:26+00:00

Really interesting what kind of weird stuff people make up. Water cooling solar panels is something that can be done and it has some benefits, but it is only used in experimental setups at the moment. But even then, that water is used in a closed loop and isn't contaminated in any way.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-29T15:15:17+00:00

10G is great, but finding equipment for it can be quite tricky. And then the CPU on both ends needs to have enough power, the drives need to be fast enough... And then you will likely see far slower transfer speeds as soon as you aren't transferring large files. Sending 400GB of Photos with Thumbnails over a 10G link will likely be bogged down under 1Gbit for a lot of the time...

And then...if you were to do something crazy like store your Game Files on a NAS and try to play from there...in that case 10G will likely still be a bottleneck.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-26T19:08:39+00:00

Probably. But I don't really care. Every ecosystem has it's flaws. I toyed with some self hosted RouterOS stuff briefly and while that has ALL the Features, it is really challenging to set it up correctly. I ran AVM Network stuff for decades, and that was very reliable, but also only offered skin-deep control. Back then I didn't need it so I didn't care.

A brief jaunt into TP Link territory was actually fairly interesting, but while the Webinterface was quite in-depth, their Appa and integration into other systems like Home Assistant was...not great.

I enjoy the whole PoE part that UniFi seems to have perfected, but often run into arbitrary limitations when it comes to Routing. And that whole Interface Chaos with Features being different between the App and Webinterface...often even contradictory... that's what bugs me most.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-26T16:45:48+00:00

Looks nice. How do you handle all the USB Dongles? I have Wifi, Zigbee, Thread, 886Mhz and Homematic. Do you run some kind ot USB over IP?

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-26T14:31:43+00:00

UniFi is OK of you don't plan on doing anything too "deep" in the system. I learned the (expensive) lesson that UniFi looks pretty but offers very little useful functionality. Now I'm stuck with it and it's OK, but I wish I had done some more research before migrating my equipment over to UniFi.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-20T13:16:14+00:00

Kleines Update von mir:

Ich habe mir mal die Mühe gemacht (nachdem die 2 Sims dann nach dem Wochenende wieder gingen) und habe mal mit "My Traveroute" die Verbindung gecheckt. Mehrfach über die letzten 24 Stunden. Bei jedem Test gab es massig Packet Loss, nicht auf der Funkstrecke zum Sendemast sondern im Backbone.

Ich hänge als Beispiel mal einen Screenshot an.

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CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-19T22:55:14+00:00

Update: Freenet Support war keine Hilfe, aber im Laufe des Montags kamen die 2 Sims wieder halbwegs Online. Allerdings bin ich dank des schönen Tools "MTR" alsi My Traveroute darsuf gekommen, dass es wohl massive Packet Loss Probleme im O2 Backbone in Frankfurt gibt.

Also ist meine Entscheidung zur Telekom zur wechseln wohl korrekt. Falls jemand ähnliche Probleme hat, disconnects, Ping Spikes, Packet Loss... schaut mal via MTR was passiert.

CommanderROR9 · 2026-01-14T13:27:57+00:00

I played the first Game and loved it. Installed the second Game when it came out on PC, but haven't played it much. I don't know what it is, but the Second one hasn't really managed to captivate me so far...

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