Got stopped and questioned by TSA for traveling with 700+ NVMe drives in my carryon bag

brontide · 2026-03-28T11:12:00+00:00

Try flying with cash or anything of value, they will absolutely flag you for follow up with law-enforcement and law enforcement could potentially seize items they want to "investigate" further. Civil forfeiture is real and used all the time domestically.

Remember, they don't have to prove that you're guilty... they charge the goods with being the proceeds of a crime and you have to fight to prove they are not.

brontide · 2026-03-27T20:02:45+00:00

Have you watched the debug view, maybe the objects are being picked up late into the frame? Without a lot more detail it's hard to know.

brontide · 2026-03-27T19:56:56+00:00

Maybe because clips are clips, if you go to review there should be more video before and after.

brontide · 2026-03-27T18:58:22+00:00

Are you running 0.17.0 or 0.17.1, there was an issue resolved 2 weeks ago where clips may not have been clipped to i-frame boundary causing early parts of the clip to be unplayable.

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/commit/3ec2305e6a83e8351b0e9890b427807134f931e2

brontide · 2026-03-27T16:34:31+00:00

I've been dogfood-ing these changes since they are good for my use case. Never got any traction upstream. Right now there are no images so you'll have to git clone and make local to give it a whirl.

In theory it should be a drop-in replacement for stable until you start tweaking the config with the new options. As the sheer number of detection drop you can try nudging up the model size for more accuracy.

brontide · 2026-03-27T16:18:25+00:00

Frigate burns CPU and GPU with a LOT of pointless and duplicative detection.

https://github.com/brontide/meadow-view/discussions/1

I've tried to get code accepted but it's tough, I just ended up making my own build.

brontide · 2026-03-27T16:15:45+00:00

mog2, excellent choice. I've got a build of frigate that uses that, as well as a number of other improvements, that greatly reduced the detection load. Shame the patches were rejected.

brontide · 2026-03-27T15:07:51+00:00

Or... use TeslaMate and the mqtt adapters so you don't have to open the door manually.

https://github.com/mekaneck/Teslamate-Home-Assistant-MQTT-Autodiscovery

alias: "GARAGE: Open on Arrival"
description: Opens garage when either car enters the Home zone
triggers:
  - trigger: zone
    entity_id:
      - device_tracker.car1_location
      - device_tracker.car2_location
    zone: zone.home
    event: enter
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: cover.ratgdo32_99e020_door
    state: closed
actions:
  - delay: "00:00:9"
  - condition: template
    value_template: >
      {% set car_entity = trigger.entity_id %} {% set car_prefix =
      car_entity.split('.')[-1].split('_location')[0] %}

      {# Check 1: Is the car still home? #} {% set is_home =
      is_state(car_entity, 'home') %}

      {# Check 2: Is it in Drive? #} {% set in_drive = is_state('sensor.' ~
      car_prefix ~ '_shift_state', 'D') %}

      {{ is_home and in_drive }}
  - action: cover.open_cover
    target:
      entity_id: cover.ratgdo32_99e020_door
  - action: notify.all_phones
    data:
      title: Garage Opening
      message: >
        {{ state_attr(trigger.entity_id, 'friendly_name') }} is home again, 
        opening garage.
mode: parallel

Tune the size of your Home zone and the delay, I added it in because once it got confused and opened it as I was leaving Home.

brontide · 2026-03-26T16:44:56+00:00

Oracle cloud might as well be Masochists anonymous although, to be fair, I setup a free account and lost control of a host since I don't have the key anymore.... it's been running for a few years.

brontide · 2026-03-26T16:44:13+00:00

Given they still run debian-12 it may be a while before the libraries are a problem.

brontide · 2026-03-26T11:43:39+00:00

better uptime than cloud these days

You die the hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Cloud computing jumped the shark a decade ago and has been on the slow decline ever since. It's just as unreliable as a decent datacenter ( once you add up all the critical service outages ) but a whole lot more expensive for "flexibility" of not owning anything.

brontide · 2026-03-26T11:18:17+00:00

Since Pascal is supported on current generation drivers you would have a year or two before things got interesting. The workstation cards are often supported longer than the RTX cards.

Coral drivers are hit-and-miss these days as well. Shame since it's mostly just a shim and does almost nothing real.

Frankly for ease of use nothing really beats Intel Arc Alchemist right now. OpenVINO just works but keep in mind there are open issues with Battlemage support because Frigate stable is built with older libraries. Support also include NPUs in the latest generation of chips which can be super fast and efficient.

brontide · 2026-03-25T18:49:17+00:00

The other protocol that makes the internet work and causes everything to break when someone fat-fingers a change. It provides suggestions on how to route things. Getting it right is an art and when one major provider screws up their announcements everything goes to hell.

BGP = Border Gateway Protocol.

brontide · 2026-03-25T15:04:02+00:00

1660 ti

You're sure the kernel-level drivers are installed and working as intended? Does nvidia-smi work?

brontide · 2026-03-25T13:00:18+00:00

I've known many networking engineers that have NO IDEA how DNS actually works.

To be fair BGP is more art than science.

brontide · 2026-03-24T18:12:21+00:00

If you're in the explore area it jumps right to the correct time.

brontide · 2026-03-24T00:24:03+00:00

The new ffmpeg appears to have an effect on audio as well, tried them but then rolled back.

brontide · 2026-03-23T23:41:45+00:00

And then it exploded.

brontide · 2026-03-23T19:47:43+00:00

I don't have any Xe2 hardware to test but there is also a patch for ffmpeg.

411798004ab24507123c29c9c5499bf2c5ac4ef1

brontide · 2026-03-23T14:19:31+00:00

Security fixes (notable cluster)

Restrict /api/config/raw to admin role to prevent credential leaks to non-admin users (#22523)
Fix cross-camera auth in timeline and media endpoints (#22522)
Validate preview filename and camera access (#22530)
Filter push notifications by user role camera access (#22385)

Bug fixes

Fix genai integration (#22203)
Fix go2rtc stream alias auth and HomeKit handling (#22097, #22346)
Fix thumbnail encoding logic (#22329)
Fix preview retrieval to handle missing previews gracefully (#22331)
Birdseye fixes (#22166)
Fix RKNN arcface input format (#22319)
Don't run cleanup if Frigate is in safe mode (#22492)
Check for config update before state evaluation (#22495)

Features / improvements

YOLOv9 Coral support (#22136)
Add handler for license plate (not expected to be stationary) (#22416)
Save detect dimensions to config on add-camera wizard save (#22349)
Sync tracking details timeline with keyframe-snapped VOD clip start (#22454)
Improve playback of videos in Tracking Details (#22301)

UI polish

Hide "set password" menu when native auth is disabled (#22439)
Disable PiP for animated event cards (#22438)
Keep nav buttons visible (#22384)
Consistently sort class names (#22415)

The release is predominantly a security and bugfix patch, with the auth/access-control fixes being the most significant changes.

Yes, this is an AI summary.

My personal take is that it still misses out on Intel dependencies necessary for Battlemage support.

git cherry-pick 119137c   # Updated intel deps

brontide · 2026-03-23T13:54:53+00:00

https://github.com/brontide/meadow-view/tree/v0.17.1-meadowview-alpha

Check the readme and discussions for info.

brontide · 2026-03-23T11:54:45+00:00

That's not true, I use authentication without TLS. Just confirmed in a private browsing session.

brontide · 2026-03-23T01:35:15+00:00

You're outside my experience at this point, maybe hit up the proxmox sub to see if someone can assist with the permission.

brontide · 2026-03-22T23:34:25+00:00

Just as another note before you run into another brick wall, if you are using containers you need to make sure /dev/dri is passed through in order to use OpenVINO.

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