Rosco’s Cloud – A Blog on IOT, Smart Homes, & Technology

From my earlier post, we learned how to utilize Scrypted to forward a Frigate re stream to Homekit while having secured-video. Now, the current detection method written about was the built-in object detection, which, to say the least, wasn’t the best. A list of items required to utilize Frigate’s detection and save a lot of…

11/6/2023- I have included additional information at the bottom of this post to update the build with BME280 sensors for temperature, humidity, and pressure. I hate batteries in my IOT devices. Depending on when they were made and who/where you purchase through, the battery life can be between two years and three months. That’s why…

Frigate is one of my favorite open-source NVR solutions. It integrates beautifully with mqtt, as well as Home Assistant, as well as providing AI tracking. But, what if you’re trying, like me, to have a low-cost way of storing two weeks of video in the cloud, such as how Apple’s latest offering? This is where…

Now, to start, I’m guessing you’re asking “Rosco, why not use Proxmox Backup Server for your backups so their versioned?” That’s a great question! Theirs a few issues that I ran into, that I want to put in writing for those who follow my path.  If your PBS fails, the files themselves can be corrupted.…

 Leaving an organization, you’ve worked so hard on after two years can give you a lot of bittersweet feelings. My only advice to others is to have a list of what you want to accomplish. Going by a time limit will only cause damage to yourself. Get in, serve the people that you represent in…

So I swapped some button cells that were dead and threw them into my dead battery bag for recycling. Three minutes later I hear a loud pop and see a hole burned through the bag. Evidently, it touched the contacts of a 9V in there too,and overloaded the cell.😅

3 boot disks of four in two units, and one storage drive failed. All degraded so I was able to fix but sheeesh. This is why I highly suggest checking your warnings on your drives and checking your S.M.A.R.T values.

I have been trying to get posts edited and re-uploaded, but life and working out have gotten in the way. it seems like rock climbing, and small update projext have gotten in the way. the goal is to have the next Frigate explanation for installing it on a VM with a minipcie coral TPU soon.…