This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software.
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00:46 Orbit Panels
- Installed at home
- First professional install
- Smart home issues
03:03 Oreon Desktop
- The Register
- Distro based on Alma Linux
- Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right
- Oreon Project
- Company has support
- Focus on the desktop
- Has lots of extra packages/software
- Focus on stability
10:08 Serpent OS
11:55 Cosmic OS
- 9 to 5 Linux
- Pop!_OS 24.04
- Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop
- Built for users
- System76 Cosmic
- Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops
- Give System76 constructive feedback
- Available for many distros
- Tool kit is available on Mac and Windows
21:33 Buying/Owning Content
- ARSTechnica
- Roku axed Redbox app
- You don't own anything purchased on a "service"
24:45 Sous Vide Cooker to Charge
- App is 10 years old
- Charging a subscription fee
- Claim is to cover hosting and downloads of the app
- Why not open source the app/protocol?
- ARSTechnica
30:13 News Wire
32:00 Frigate Make Good
- Mostly user error
- h.265 vs h.264
- New release 0.14
- complete rewrite of the UI
- User permissions exist now!
- Got a response on Github!
- 6 cameras plus a doorbell
- RioLink HA plugin did magic
- Moved from HA to Ryzen 1700
- Power usage in HA vs Baremetal+GPU
- Network load
- Now up to
- 125 watts
- 5 disks
- 64 GB of RAM
- Tying into Home Assistant
- Open Source taking over proprietary
- Documentation
- Getting things "dialed in"
- Passing on "tribal knowledge"
- Calculating RAM usage
- Predicts disk usage
- Don't put it on the same box as Home Assistant
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