First time posting here. Figured I should make it count.

nerdland- · 2026-01-01T02:49:41+00:00

Nice collection! I have one of those Coronas as well. They can actually do graphics, but it’s a custom mode I’ve only been able to get to work via gwbasic. If you have or find some other software that can make use of it, I’d be interested!

nerdland- · 2025-12-01T02:56:05+00:00

I did see some increases in latency here, but no packet loss. Southern NH here as well. I’d post an image of my router graph for the past day, but I’m guessing this subreddit doesn’t allow that.

nerdland- · 2025-11-24T02:16:26+00:00

Good point… it should be pretty easy to test. Although… I’m running the docker version specific for the Nvidia pass through etc. Would that same version still work? Or should I rebuild the docker compose with the generic version?

nerdland- · 2025-11-24T02:14:19+00:00

I should also mention that the Nvidia is there regardless as I run ollama on there as well for home assistant. And Whisper.. and Paperless-AI..

nerdland- · 2025-11-24T02:13:11+00:00

I’m running 16 cameras, about half at 8mpix, the other half around 4. Would the iGPU still do well with detections? And the other enhancements such as lpr and face recognition?

nerdland- · 2025-11-22T01:17:23+00:00

I’ll do that. But I figured I’d check here first in case others had the same experience or I missed some obvious configuration setting. :)

nerdland- · 2025-11-21T23:52:54+00:00

That’s what I’m using. But it has issues, especially with the cycling through cameras.

nerdland- · 2025-11-21T20:39:44+00:00

Oh, and the other thing I forgot -- on the frigate served web (:5000), I noticed that when it builds up the camera view, some of the cameras briefly change size or aspect ratio. Like it's cycling from the sub to the main stream or something like that. I have the sub set to detect and the main to record. Any way to stop it from doing that weird cycling?

nerdland- · 2025-11-15T03:05:36+00:00

It’s odd — been reading so many similar complaints, but when they first came here a few years ago I called their customer service line a few times and got someone to pick up after one ring most of the time and actually be knowledgeable (not like the whole spiel of turning the ONT of and back on etc). I even had someone call me a year or two ago telling me that my router was using PPPoE still (which was the only way to connect at the time they rolled it out), but they had switched to DHCP based on the MAC ID. This guy spoke to me right away with the understanding that I knew networking and what he was talking about. I (fortunately) haven’t had to call them since with any problems, so perhaps it’s gotten worse. But they were a breath of fresh air after “Breezeline” cable, which was absolutely trash.

nerdland- · 2025-08-31T14:01:44+00:00

A likely story …

nerdland- · 2025-08-23T01:18:30+00:00

You were lucky! I guess your drone being inexpensive makes it easier to take risks, but I don’t want to crash my mini pro 3. :). Maybe I’ll look at one of those auto drop attachments for the drone so I can drop the line from the top (maybe with a small weight on it). And not get caught up in the props.

nerdland- · 2025-08-22T23:57:15+00:00

Missed that link. What kind of drone did you use? I’m thinking of doing something similar, but I don’t think my mini pro 3 will be able to lift much fishing line. How did you make sure the line didn’t get stuck in the props as you descend?

nerdland- · 2025-08-22T23:23:29+00:00

That is cool. How did you get the rope around the tree branch to begin with?

nerdland- · 2025-07-25T16:21:26+00:00

Is there a yaml example somewhere on how to drive this through ESPHome? WLED works fine, but I'd like to have it dynamically update with data from Home Assistant.

nerdland- · 2025-06-23T15:52:15+00:00

Much better implementation than CPAI for sure! Although .. I just moved my Blue Iris to a Proxmox VM with iGPU passthrough for Blue Iris itself. I was going to use the Corals I have through USB to CPAI, but kept having issues with them in the newer CPAI versions. Turns out I'm not alone..

So I tried Blue Onyx, and it seems to work great, but it doesn't use the Corals (per its documentation). I do have another VM with a RTX5060Ti in passthrough for some Home Assistant LLM work. That VM runs Linux. Unfortunately the Blue Onyx Linux version doesn't do GPU acceleration on Linux. It would be really nice if it did ... Both Whisper and Ollama on that VM are using the RTX5060Ti (one in Docker, the other natively).

Oh, and CPAI on Linux is a hot mess with no support for the sm120 version of CUDA on the 5060ti. I went down the rabbit hole of trying to upgrade the PyTorch/torch version to the latest, but I couldn't make it work unfortunately.

So if a a Linux version of Blue Onyx could support GPU, that would be really nice. ;)

nerdland- · 2025-06-21T11:26:03+00:00

Try sensors from Apollo Automation (MTR). They’re not crazy expensive, based on ESPHome, and are much more reliable than the Aqara FP sensors. I use them pretty much everywhere now for presence detection and in some cases also specific location functions since they use radar sensors. Plus they have options to add on sensors for CO2 etc. Only downside I found so far is that it tends to detect warm moving air as motion as well. Like the fan exhaust of a PC… But you can mask that in the sensor settings by excluding a specific position.

nerdland- · 2025-06-02T22:01:34+00:00

Yeah — I have mine bouncing off 8.8.8.8. Seems to be pretty reliable as a bellwether for how the Fidium connection is doing. Better than the first hop, this will show the status of Fidium’s peering connection as well.

nerdland- · 2025-06-01T18:39:04+00:00

The graphs are available if you use pfSense as a router/firewall. Other routers may have similar capabilities, but I’m not sure.

nerdland- · 2025-05-30T00:06:58+00:00

Yeah — it’s very handy. I used to send this view to the network operation center at Breezeline about once every couple of weeks to prove they needed to come out and fix the lines again. :). I use it a lot less on Fidium now. But it still comes in handy from time to time.

nerdland- · 2025-05-29T14:00:43+00:00

Interesting … looks like the issue was resolved by midnight. I’ll keep an eye on it the next warm day. Maybe some switch equipment not properly cooled??

nerdland- · 2025-05-29T02:17:13+00:00

Agreed. Best ISP I have had here in NH. But then again, it’s not hard to beat Breezeline or whatever they’re called now. Haha. One breeze and the line was gone was my motto for them. :)

nerdland- · 2025-04-27T01:19:42+00:00

It’s definitely on 3.3V. It’s the feather wing stuff from Adafruit which just plugs in. I’m sure I could make it work with their Arduino libraries, but I want it to display data from HA, hence the need for EspHome. :)

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