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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023
  • The problem is that it can only be speculated how they work, because they have not published it. That is quite suspicious in my book.

    I personally would avoid reolink and use rtsp + frigate + ha, to have full control with known open source selfhosting solution.

    I understand that people like the easy setup, but if you already do selfhosting, it isn’t that big jump.

  • Be careful with reolink, their P2P solution is pretty suspicious. No body really knows how it works and who it shares the data with.

    You can disable those features, but it will stop reolink app from working.

    They have never explained how the peer-2-peer network works, and it security and privacy is quite unknown.

    Reolink is Chinese, which doesn’t really help these concerns.

    Better to selfhost frigate and just rtsp cameras there.

  • Good luck trying to find industrial stuff that supports IPv6, hell most of it is still serial.

    I have legit heard that serial is security mechanism because it cannot communicate long distance like ethernet.

    Of course you can do IPv6 magic that hides IPv6 from the end device, but nobody understands how that magic works.

  • Coral Acceletor is only needed if you run setup that does not have GPU or enough CPU. Spare laptop usually has enough power to handle AI detection, but RasPi doesn’t. I run mine in CPU at rack server.

    Cameras own detections are limited in my experience, and it is much harder to integrate to anything else, like HomeAssistant for notification & automation