Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I made carrot cake with my 8yo today.
He was just diagnosed with a laundry list of problems including adhd & autism, but he can make a cake & he’s doing OK at school so we’ll get through it
That’s awesome! My son likes to bake as well. It’s a good break from screentime
Haven’t been able to steer them away from sweet stuff however
I now have a doorbell camera (a Reolink one)!
It’s fun explaining to people that my security cameras are not for security, but mostly just for playing with the technology.
And I got the doorbell one partly (mostly) because I work from home most of the time, and want to know if the person at the door is just leaving a package, expecting me to sign for a package, or are trying to sell me something, as only one of those things are worth getting up for.
I had hoped I’d be able to do things like detect if my wheelie bin is out, but the camera doesn’t quite cover the right area so I’ll get another to put over my driveway and point at the kerb.
Did you go PoE or wireless? I was tempted to get the PoE version, but am now too lazy to run a cable.
I went PoE, I don’t want batteries to charge and also I wanted something that can play nice with Frigate.
It goes through the wall to a spot in my garage very near where I need it, so I got an ethernet jack installed on the opposite side of the wall to make it easy. I was gonna do it myself but couldn’t get my courage up to drill a hole in a super obvious spot by the front door because I wasn’t sure it would ever be fixable if I screwed it up 😅
In the end I got some bloke in, $125 in parts and labour (not including the camera that I already had) they were done in less than an hour.
