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…so that you can easily call a method on a group of fields. I did that here, for example: < https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/ff383147e4ff7... > There have been language proposals to define "view types" which are basically…

comment by scottlamb · 2025-10-24 · in Rust Contagious Borrow Issue

…from my system I'd like to add when I have time; that one doesn't make my top 10. YMMV. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design...

comment by scottlamb · 2024-12-01 · in Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

…closed-source software is typically a complete nightmare in terms of privacy and security. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

comment by scottlamb · 2024-12-01 · in Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

…lists them all in the first page. 1: https://frigate.video/ 2: https://www.home-assistant.io/ 3: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr 4: https://github.com/SentryShot/sentryshot > The prototype currently has a lot of limitations:…

comment by 0points · 2024-12-01 · in Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

…the fall back hour and got the wrong result because these things just don't work right today. https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/244

comment by scottlamb · 2024-08-24 · in JavaScript dates are about to be fixed

…and when that happens I usually assume it's too expensive for the DIY crowd and drop out. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr [2] https://monitoreal.com/product/monitoreal-perimeter-cameras-...

comment by scottlamb · 2024-07-17 · in Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)

…areas. (And UI is really not an area of expertise of mine, as you can see from e.g. this bug: < https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/286 >.) For now I actually run Moonfire and Frigate side-by-side. They're almost complete…

comment by scottlamb · 2023-11-18 · in Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection

…even then it may not provide the expected standard of proof much less get your stuff back... [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/

comment by scottlamb · 2023-11-09 · in Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

…there's something I'm not getting. I'm a fish out of water with frontend stuff in general... [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/5ea5d27908f1a... [2] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/5ea5d27908f1a...

comment by scottlamb · 2023-10-23 · in MSW 2.0 – Mock Service Worker

…boxes. Hard to get excited about investing a lot in the software when the hardware isn't there. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

comment by scottlamb · 2023-10-08 · in OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

…to just use the main stream for everything but the on-NVR transcoding's likely unaffordable. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr [2] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/Cameras:-Reol...

comment by scottlamb · 2023-01-10 · in AMD Alveo V70 AI inference accelerator card

…The popular open standard is RTSP. Many cameras have astonishingly poor RTSP implementations. See https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/Cameras:-Reol... for some of what I'm talking about. That ONVIF page (…

comment by scottlamb · 2022-10-20 · in Managing and using ONVIF IP cameras with Linux

…open-source firmware, sensors aren't as large as I'd like, no NPU, but relatively decent otherwise. https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/Cameras:-Geov... edit: actually, some of these 6MP Hanwha cameras look promising. Several…

comment by scottlamb · 2022-10-20 · in Managing and using ONVIF IP cameras with Linux

…hasn't reached OpenWRT's level of success. On the NVR side, I'm slowly working on it, including https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr and https://github.com/scottlamb/retina . Help welcome!

comment by scottlamb · 2022-10-20 · in Managing and using ONVIF IP cameras with Linux

…hardware setups) but will be more complex if I have to deal with HLS's complexity also. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design...

comment by scottlamb · 2022-05-14 · in Safari Technology Preview Release Notes

MSE is entirely unsupported on iPhones. window.MediaSource is undefined. https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/121

comment by scottlamb · 2022-05-13 · in Safari Technology Preview Release Notes

…wasn't working, only to realize my user was running a version that predated the fix. D'oh. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/209#issueco...

comment by scottlamb · 2022-04-01 · in RFC 9225: Software Defects Considered Harmful

…you have a good way to make sure UAS is fully reliable, I'd love to update my recommendation. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/System-setup#...

comment by scottlamb · 2021-10-06 · in Introducing raspberrypi.com

…GPIO pins. The modules are ~$10 including shipping. I wrote up the software setup recently here: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/System-setup#...

comment by scottlamb · 2021-08-11 · in The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server (2012)

…don't think it's worth it. [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/commit/bfef967d... [2] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/System-setup#...

comment by scottlamb · 2021-07-30 · in Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

…immediately. As far as I know, Reolink is uninvolved, despite also being a Chinese company. [2] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

comment by scottlamb · 2021-04-23 · in Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

I use it in a network video recorder. https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design... Data in a flat file would be much less efficient, and a SQL server (eg PostgreSQL) would be more for the administrator to deal with.…

comment by scottlamb · 2021-02-21 · in Cross-Database Queries in SQLite

…[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/72981#issuecomment-72... [3] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/commit/9a5957d5efa...

comment by scottlamb · 2021-02-19 · in Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)

…one UI even if they're made by different manufacturers, etc. I'm working on an open-source NVR: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr that is secure, will run on a Raspberry Pi 4, and has a good recording schema. I wouldn't describe…

comment by scottlamb · 2020-11-01 · in Piipcam – 1080P IP Camera on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

…of a single camera or across cameras) is a pain point. Here's what my software is doing today: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design... Any of several changes to the camera would improve matters a lot: * using…

comment by scottlamb · 2020-06-22 · in Tensorflow on edge, or – Building a “smart” security camera with a Raspberry Pi

…my database) is another matter, so I can see why people would install a speed-bump or two... [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/44#issuecom...

comment by scottlamb · 2020-06-15 · in SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

…for but nice anyway. [1] https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007583%20600030561%20600030... [2] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr [3] https://butterwhat.com/2019/06/16/brians-top-three-diy-nas-c...

comment by scottlamb · 2020-02-29 · in AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs

…view, and a very "written by a backend engineer" UI. But it's slowly improving. I'd welcome help! https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

comment by scottlamb · 2020-02-06 · in 0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras

…anyway, so if you're able, it's worth chipping in even if you agree with me about everything. [1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design... [2] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/40

comment by scottlamb · 2019-06-25 · in Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

…roughly one-minute segments at convenient locations. The schema design doc talks about that here: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design... .mp4 serving will aggregate those together (maybe clipping the start and end…

comment by scottlamb · 2019-06-24 · in Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

A security camera NVR. (Help wanted! I'm developing it here: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr I'm proud of the design but it's still far from a polished system that does everything a reasonable person would expect. Lots of…

comment by scottlamb · 2019-06-24 · in Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

…time". Then I opened Hacker News and saw this article. So this is very timely for me. (My doc: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/new-schema/de... )

comment by scottlamb · 2016-12-27 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about video