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  • I know a few people around here are running Home Assistant and the like. I’m keen to put in a few cameras, preferably not cloud connected but that can connect to Home Assistant. I’m planning on adding object detection via coral.

    I’m thinking cameras powered by PoE. Anyone got suggestions for outdoor cameras?

    What about a switch that outputs PoE and doesn’t cost thousands? Maybe something like this? Though I don’t seem to see good bang for buck switches where they are all PoE, they seem to just do half of the ports PoE though 8 PoE ports seems like it would be plenty.

    And on another note, any suggestions for a network level VPN client? That is, for connecting the home nenetwork to an external VPN server (one that handles hundreds of Mbps, preferably wireguard). Is something like this appropriate? It’s CPU is only 1Ghz so I worry it will be slow.











  • OP never asked for OSS 🙂. It’s not big tech and has no network access so should suit the de-google theme.

    On FUTO, they are using the term “Source First” (which they invented) because they pretty much think that OSI is funded by big tech and serves their purposes. My exaggerated paraphrasing but you can read their views here.

    Basically they think the current model doesn’t work, and they are experimenting with a different take. I don’t have strong views but I’m happily using the keyboard while I wait and see if it works for them.


  • FUTO keyboard managed to be very similar to OpenBoard and Heliboard, while solving some issues I had with those (buggy quirks that may well be hardware or software specific).

    I used Thumb-key for a few months, to give it a real go, but I’m not convinced I ever got my speed up. Could do about 25wpm at my peak but I can do another 10wpm on a more normal keyboard (with word suggestions) and I don’t think I’m particularly fast. Not sure what’s normal for a mobile keyboard.


  • I’ve struggled with keyboards. Some to try out are OpenBoard, Heliboard, and Florisboard. All are on F-Droid.

    But my favourite so far is FUTO Keyboard. Not without issues but I like it the best. It’s not on F-Droid but you can use Obtanium to keep it up to date from the GitHub releases.

    If you like weird shit, check out Thumb-key. It’s on F-Droid and made by one of the Lemmy developers.