Wow, Google discontinuing something? Breaking news, unprecedented
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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There should be some mandatory support period for newer IoT products
I just don't buy IoT devices that need to talk to the manufacturer's server to function. I've got Home Assistant running at home, and everything works fine offline.
Yes I myself would check if it works with home assistant before purchase , but also there should be some guaranteed period for majority users who want features but not bother with self hosting.
Normalize mandatory open source when a product is no longer supported. Either we pay for a service and they Replace it free of charge or we own it properly
- stop e-waste/ longevity
- Breed innovation
- Foster community engagement
- Boost educational value
- Improve compatibility and interoperability
- Empower user customization and flexibility
I’m pretty sure whatever model of Nest cams I have (looks like the original drop cam style) have RSTP support… I wonder if they can be used with Frigate NVR?
I assume there’s no way to re-configure them after that deadline… but Corals are back to like 150% of MSRP ;-)
I’ve been thinking about writing my own security cam software that would let you use any WebDAV provider and just a Raspberry Pi with a camera. I’ve gotten better at packaging stuff for Docker. All the big company security cameras have huge drawbacks.
The only problem with my thing would be weather proofing. I don’t know of any waterproof Raspberry Pi case that can take a camera. :(
Having a weatherproof case made wouldn’t be too much issue. Let me know if you go ahead with it and maybe I can do the case.
Cost wouldn’t be feasible for 1-offs, but any volume orders and the price for the cases would come straight down.
I started working on this yesterday.
https://github.com/sciactive/soteria
Locally, I've got it loading the stream from the camera, encoding, and muxing, then pushing to a filesystem write stream, but I’ve discovered software based encoding in single threaded WASM is just too slow for what I’m trying to do. I’m going to rewrite it today to use FFMPEG externally for encoding.
Really? That would be awesome! Maybe more people would be interested.
270 euro 10 years ago but yeah.
It's unclear to me what your point is.
Is it that this is roughly equivalent to €345 today, and we should point out the current worth?
Or is it that the purchasers go 10 years of value for €270 and so this is a big nothing burger?
A bit of the 2nd.
Beyond that: the streaming quality on them is poor compared to anything modern.
But mostly pointing out that it's not modern €270 - an equivalently high end camera today is like €90 and a 1:1 replacement in terms of quality is like 20€.
"€20 Fully Functional Nest Dropcam Support ceased after 10 years" doesn't have the same punch.
good, this shits spyware anyway. Literally in fact, it's hardware, that can be used to spy.
That's enough of my anti-consumerism bullshit for the day though.
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