I can't remember if I had to have an Amcrest account to set it up or not, as soon as basic setup was done, I blocked it from the internet. So it definitely doesn't have to phone home at least after the setup phase.
rs5th
joined 2 years ago
When my current Unifi APs die, I'll probably look at moving to MikroTik for WiFi. I'm still salty about them not supporting anything but their appliance.
I used Unifi Video for a long time until they moved away from letting me run the NVR on my own VM/hardware in the Uniti Protect world.
I'm using an Amcrest AD410 doorbell cam that I've firewalled off from connecting to the internet. I'm using it via Frigate in HA, but there's a HA integration for Amcrest / Dahua as well.
Edit to add: I've been using mine for about a year. No issues at all, it's warm to the touch not hot. Granted, I'm not doing any motion detection or anything on-camera.
- Some of those are lemmy.ml and not a lot of comments, etc have synced yet.
For contact sensors, I've got like 20 of the Linkind door and window sensors. They're Zigbee, and super responsive. I've basically built my own alarm system with them and HA. At ~$10 (USD) each, they were quite a bit cheaper than the comparable Aqara sensors.
I’m up to about 300MB of disk usage after a day of hosting my own. Curious to see how it grows.
Oooh same, like down to the tenths of a degree.
I hate most LED TVs because I notice every time they step down/up the brightness with their dynamic contrast. Plasma or OLED all the way.
I'm running a Kubernetes cluster on the Dell hardware, then another single node k8s cluster on the Lenovo, mostly to run Adguard home / DNS in case the big cluster goes down for whatever reason.
Hardware:
- Two Dell r610s, each with 12 cores and 96 GB of RAM, running ESXi 6.7
- Lenovo M900, 4 core, 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu and k3s
- Synology 1515 with 12 TB usable
- Synology 1517 with 32 TB usable
- Juniper SRX 220H (Firewall)
- Juniper EX 2200 48 port switch
- UnFi in-wall WiFi APs
I run the following services, all in Kubernetes, with FluxCD doing GitOps from a repo in GitHub (for now, might move to Gitea later):
- Authentik
- Bookstack
- Calibre
- Flame (Homepage)
- Frigate NVR
- Home Assistant
- Memos
- Monica
- Plex
- Prowlarr
- Radarr
- Rocket Chat
- Sonarr
- Tandoor
- Tautulli
- Unifi
- UptimeKuma
- VS Code
- Zigbee2MQTT
Secrets in BitWarden, documentation in Bookstack.