Category Archives: New Toys

Crappy Amcrest Camera

Posted on July 2, 2024 by larry

I hated this camera so much, I ordered another to get rid of the bad taste. The camera is the Amcrest ASH21-B-V3. It is part of the smarthome line and requires the app. There is no way to set it … Continue reading →

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NVME Upgrade

Posted on June 28, 2024 by larry

Finally did this, my 1TB 970EVO NVME drive was filling up, I purchased a 2 TB one to upgrade. I purchased this over a year ago (Nov of 2022) and finally got around to it. What this does is puts … Continue reading →

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Maybe New Frigate Server

Posted on June 26, 2024 by larry

The IOwait on my frigate server is crazy I posted this on reddit and someone suggested I set sync_recordings to false. I think that may have helped somewhat in that the values are now at sane levels. It still pops … Continue reading →

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Going Through Builds

Posted on June 18, 2024 by larry

I am able to build my prime home server ok, but the configuration is the hard part. Can’t seem to get ldap right. But I am slowly getting it, going through bunch of install an reinstalls. May switch to a … Continue reading →

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Waterproof Headset

Posted on June 17, 2024 by larry

Didn’t have time to post this yesterday but got a nice father’s day gift, I headset I can swim with. An interesting headset, my first bone-conduction sports headphone. I can swim with it, but not today. Weight: 347.2

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Father’s Day 2024

Posted on June 16, 2024 by larry

Kind of chilled today, no hard work, just small stuff. As of this post i have not completed my steps, but am close, sitting at 8500. Reduced the amount of cameras on my NVR. I don’t think it is handling … Continue reading →

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Interesting Week

Posted on June 15, 2024 by larry

This week was weird, the huge one was that my son graduated, but another one is my son got to see someone run parkrun in under 15 minutes. It was incredible, the scene in Top Gun 2 Maverick where he … Continue reading →

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M.2 Coral Working

Posted on June 11, 2024 by larry

So it was incompatible code. Anyway I got my M.2 Coral working. The inference on that thing is low. Down to 6.7ms. The USB one is hanging around at 28.4ms. Here is how I did it First I enabled the … Continue reading →

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Son’s Official Last Day of Class

Posted on June 10, 2024 by larry

I dropped him off one last time to high school. Captured the moment. Tomorrow he has commencement practice and Wednesday is the real deal. Tomorrow I suspect will be busy. Got my Coral m.2 cards today, have trouble getting them … Continue reading →

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Tweaking Frigate Install

Posted on June 7, 2024 by larry

Starting to look better, but still a ways to go. Hoping that another TPU to assist. Maybe in the future I will use new training model I created myself. Right now just happy it is working. I am pushing it … Continue reading →

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