Dallaswho
| Favorite team: | Missouri  |
| Location: | Texas |
| Biography: | 5.5x Message Board Genius “I do think that Dallaswho MIGHT BE Drinkwitz, posting on SECRANT, not kidding.” -HRV |
| Interests: | Football, cars, building things. Failing at garden/landscape. |
| Occupation: | Oil/Tech |
| Number of Posts: | 3604 |
| Registered on: | 12/4/2023 |
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re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted by Dallaswho on 6/5/26 at 6:38 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
Ya it’s a one way street for me too. We do love our Alexa studios, but I’d love to keep the smart stuff on home assistant. Good luck though. I’m pretty deep and haven’t found a solution. Text assist is excellent. TTS can be excellent. STT is awful.
ETA: I don’t spend a lot of time on HA, it works in the background. I spend all my time on surveillance and communications stuff.
ETA: I don’t spend a lot of time on HA, it works in the background. I spend all my time on surveillance and communications stuff.
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re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted by Dallaswho on 6/5/26 at 5:41 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
You can expose your ha entities via matter to Alexa. I’d imagine you can do that for Google home.
I use voice (whisper plus cosy) in my companion app rarely for only complex things Alexa can’t do but at that point just type it out. Even in companion app STT sucks and never knows when you’re done talking. TTS with cosy is amazing though. Any voice you want and your model can put in the inflections if it’s in your agent prompt
I use voice (whisper plus cosy) in my companion app rarely for only complex things Alexa can’t do but at that point just type it out. Even in companion app STT sucks and never knows when you’re done talking. TTS with cosy is amazing though. Any voice you want and your model can put in the inflections if it’s in your agent prompt
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Organic material is a dying breed.
“Organic material” was its own charade of products, physical and virtual, with an industry telling you how images should look.
I like the new way.
Reolink uses proprietary streams. They claim RTSP and ONVIF but those have bad session descriptions and change without warning, breaking most third party video handling software. Not sure how HA core handles Reolink but for most cameras they use built in go2rtc who has been fighting with Reolink for a long time to no avail. Their GitHub README explains some, discussions more. go2rtc
Pretty much all FOSS use Dahua as reference implementation because the streams and API are the most predictable. Anything made by an actual camera manufacturer(except maybe Motorola) is made to be universal.
Frigate NVR gives object detection with almost any model available, object classification(which dog), state classification (tell if door is open or closed as a sensor, etc.), LPR, bird classification, LLM tie ins, faces, object tracking, event summaries, counting, presence, image embeddings, text embeddings, semantic search, etc, etc. global, for each camera, for each zone. I think I have over 500 Frigate entities just from default integration. Most are disabled. Also fully customizable notifications. Don’t worry about the guy who came from the left, only the right. If I’m home and garage is open and gates open within ten seconds, don’t notify. Send notification as a gif. Send as critical, include these three actions as options, send “person in front” or as a whole AI review summary, etc, etc. all templated for you.
Pretty much all FOSS use Dahua as reference implementation because the streams and API are the most predictable. Anything made by an actual camera manufacturer(except maybe Motorola) is made to be universal.
Frigate NVR gives object detection with almost any model available, object classification(which dog), state classification (tell if door is open or closed as a sensor, etc.), LPR, bird classification, LLM tie ins, faces, object tracking, event summaries, counting, presence, image embeddings, text embeddings, semantic search, etc, etc. global, for each camera, for each zone. I think I have over 500 Frigate entities just from default integration. Most are disabled. Also fully customizable notifications. Don’t worry about the guy who came from the left, only the right. If I’m home and garage is open and gates open within ten seconds, don’t notify. Send notification as a gif. Send as critical, include these three actions as options, send “person in front” or as a whole AI review summary, etc, etc. all templated for you.
Not network engineer, just EE, but do network some things professionally.
1. CAT6a UTP is what I would pick but I don't know the future. Conduit may take the guess work out of the medium but not the architecture.
2. Can't future proof without knowing future. My house is 25 years old and is a disaster of obsolete tech. 50+ obsolete holes, a couple huge renovation candidates. Whatever tech you build in, you must plan on ripping out down the road.
3. 6000sqft is huge. Not sure 4x AP is enough. We use 4x AP on just over 3000 sqft but it's all stretched out on one level and we also try to cover a lot of outdoor area.
4. 4x 24 port switches? How many things are expected to be wired? This number goes down over time historically. 2.5g is the 2026 residential/SMB standard. All your Minis, business laptops, etc. already ship with this.
5. I keep hearing great stuff about Omada. I just use residential stuff that is actually getting really good now but I also have docker networks and other blast radius controls. Omada can help to solve isolation issues as they come up instead of getting crazy. Good stuff.
6. I don't understand Reolink. You spec nice business grade stuff and then toys for PoE cameras. If running server, you should use a nice software NVR and pretty much anything not from an actual camera manufacturer is either going to give major headaches or at least not give you the configurability and stream implementation to make them shine.
1. CAT6a UTP is what I would pick but I don't know the future. Conduit may take the guess work out of the medium but not the architecture.
2. Can't future proof without knowing future. My house is 25 years old and is a disaster of obsolete tech. 50+ obsolete holes, a couple huge renovation candidates. Whatever tech you build in, you must plan on ripping out down the road.
3. 6000sqft is huge. Not sure 4x AP is enough. We use 4x AP on just over 3000 sqft but it's all stretched out on one level and we also try to cover a lot of outdoor area.
4. 4x 24 port switches? How many things are expected to be wired? This number goes down over time historically. 2.5g is the 2026 residential/SMB standard. All your Minis, business laptops, etc. already ship with this.
5. I keep hearing great stuff about Omada. I just use residential stuff that is actually getting really good now but I also have docker networks and other blast radius controls. Omada can help to solve isolation issues as they come up instead of getting crazy. Good stuff.
6. I don't understand Reolink. You spec nice business grade stuff and then toys for PoE cameras. If running server, you should use a nice software NVR and pretty much anything not from an actual camera manufacturer is either going to give major headaches or at least not give you the configurability and stream implementation to make them shine.
Could have been database messed up, not sure. But my channeled were no longer linked to the available ones from provider. Wife wanted TV so fastest solution was just rebuild the lineup.
Dispatcharr just proxies and serves a cable-box style channel lineup instead of a huge IPTV style lineup. Also saves streams when multiple TVs watching the same thing you just need one stream.
Dispatcharr just proxies and serves a cable-box style channel lineup instead of a huge IPTV style lineup. Also saves streams when multiple TVs watching the same thing you just need one stream.
re: IPTV how to
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/30/26 at 1:13 am to bluebarracuda
Nah, thanks for IPT I stay tuned, just the backup TV though. There is better TV floating around. Unless u gotta have that porno then IPT TV prob where it’s at.
To be fair there is like 100k tv channels and 20x of each one you need so maybe just I didn’t select right ones.
Current plan has just one of each channel and it’s perfect unless you venture to Pluto/xumo/247 groups.
To be fair there is like 100k tv channels and 20x of each one you need so maybe just I didn’t select right ones.
Current plan has just one of each channel and it’s perfect unless you venture to Pluto/xumo/247 groups.
re: IPTV how to
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/29/26 at 10:48 pm to bluebarracuda
Naw, it was just my provider. One of the low key tech board guys, not the loudmouth. Not mad. First time it happened. All my dispatcharr channels went red. Surprised it doesn’t already have a re-link algo but this is the first time that happened and it’s been several months so I’m happpy to just make a new lineup and call it a day. Already have scripts for VOD parsing.
Might be. I was back on jellyfin an dispatcharr. Had this beautiful curated channel lineup…. Then this morning, IPTV service changed their links and all my channels are broken.
Maybe you should just always browse 600k movies/shows/channels
Naw. Took 10-12 minutes to rebuild channels and VOD. Been there, done that. Only time this service did that in 8 months. If they do it again I just make a script to re-pair.
Maybe you should just always browse 600k movies/shows/channels
Naw. Took 10-12 minutes to rebuild channels and VOD. Been there, done that. Only time this service did that in 8 months. If they do it again I just make a script to re-pair.
Frigate is absolutely top tier for their corse to fine motion augmented detection pipeline and object tracking. Their automation API is best in class by a long shot.
For OP’s use case, they fall behind due to their strict stance on permissive licensing. There just aren’t that many good vision tools out there that are permissive until you get quite heavy like RF-DETR or Qwen VLMs that are not suitable for surveillance and tracking on consumer hardware. Their bird classifier is a tiny dinosaur on par with what you’ll get with a commercial feeder product.
Fortunately, Frigate is easy to modify and already unofficially supports modern models like Ultralytics.
For OP’s use case, they fall behind due to their strict stance on permissive licensing. There just aren’t that many good vision tools out there that are permissive until you get quite heavy like RF-DETR or Qwen VLMs that are not suitable for surveillance and tracking on consumer hardware. Their bird classifier is a tiny dinosaur on par with what you’ll get with a commercial feeder product.
Fortunately, Frigate is easy to modify and already unofficially supports modern models like Ultralytics.
re: Ai/camera training
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/28/26 at 7:50 am to DonJuanDaMiles
I use ultralytics with mostly kaggle and Roboflow datasets.
Curating datasets is the hard part. You’re talking 10k images, all augmented for your image pipeline.
Choosing a model is just a matter of matching resources as long as you’re using a modern model. Everything good except the heavy RF-DETR is copyleft so not commercial viable without license but you can use them at home.
Curating datasets is the hard part. You’re talking 10k images, all augmented for your image pipeline.
Choosing a model is just a matter of matching resources as long as you’re using a modern model. Everything good except the heavy RF-DETR is copyleft so not commercial viable without license but you can use them at home.
I’ll give that a try. I actually built a music arr stack but never used it or figured out how to.
I had a good thing going with Alexa with no accounts attached then somehow the wife’s Spotify got attached unknowingly and I’d keep herring the same 20-30 songs again but it was only on Friday nights when alcohol was involved and it took forever to figure out.
I had a good thing going with Alexa with no accounts attached then somehow the wife’s Spotify got attached unknowingly and I’d keep herring the same 20-30 songs again but it was only on Friday nights when alcohol was involved and it took forever to figure out.
Music service that is not boring.
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/24/26 at 2:11 am
Spotify is basically boringfi. Plays the “safest” music possible and puts me to sleep. Want music service that will actually just play new and exciting shite. Love Alexa when ZERO accounts are connected. Is there an FOSS or other alternative that’s actually plays you new shite?
More info: mostly listen EDM. Don’t want to ever hear a song I’ve heard before.
More info: mostly listen EDM. Don’t want to ever hear a song I’ve heard before.
re: Lifetime Plex Pass increasing to $750 from $250
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/22/26 at 8:11 pm to notsince98
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. I like that I can just dump videos in a folder and Plex properly fetches the metadata and poster. Has jellyfin made that easier yet?
Jellyfin does this automatically. Takes all day for a huge IPTV VOD library but it works.
Is there any reason to use Plex over jellyfin except app on more devices?
Jellyfin did have a serious security bug a month ago but it was fixed quickly. I haven’t heard of a billion dollars going missing or an entire password manager being compromised like what happened with Plex.
Jellyfin did have a serious security bug a month ago but it was fixed quickly. I haven’t heard of a billion dollars going missing or an entire password manager being compromised like what happened with Plex.
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so i killed that integration (for now) and my appetite for an IPTV program guide integrated into my media server is pretty low right now.
I got off of that also but eventually landed back on it. Dispatcharr is a big improvement over threadfin. I had AI set me up with a lightweight ffmpeg proxy profile at like 0.995x or something to build a buffer and gracefully handle out-of-order or missing chunks. It works as good as tivimate does.
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wait for a season of show X to end, grab the season from a torrent site; binge watch ad-free.
Of just pipe your Xtream account through dispatcharr and vod2strm plugin and then your plex/jellyfin already has your custom live tv lineup and every show and movie imaginable, all automated. My eyesight and TV distance makes me not really care about bitrates though.
Their UI is exceptional but their service is just privateiptvaccess/mybunny good enough for me but not a wife pleaser. Some other chaps around here have services that are more solid. Some are XC and proxy friendly but that wizard one is hydra and requires an app.
Definitely still proxy that shite or anyone with access to your HA or jellyfin also has access to your TV passwords. No big deal if it’s $10 but better safe than sorry.
Another fun thing to do is have Jellyfin build a library (plus artwork) for 300k movies and shows from .strm links. It takes a while but it works.
Definitely still proxy that shite or anyone with access to your HA or jellyfin also has access to your TV passwords. No big deal if it’s $10 but better safe than sorry.
Another fun thing to do is have Jellyfin build a library (plus artwork) for 300k movies and shows from .strm links. It takes a while but it works.
Lol the $10 128g patriot SSDs everyone used as plex/jellyfin transcode cache are $50 now.
re: IPTV users. Ever use ffmpeg to convert streams to play in a browser?
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/16/26 at 9:59 pm to VermilionTiger
What is MMedia?
The formats are just wrappers. Use dispatcharr to proxy. Its default light ffmpeg profile unwraps streams for about any browser without using much compute at all.
Bonus: wrap dispatcharr behind gluetun and get a fully private entry point while all your content is open and accessible from your proxy to plex/jelly/home assistant, tivimate, whatever. Only downside is your media server will have to transcode to reach external clients but that’s still way better than exposing your links that include passwords.
Bonus: wrap dispatcharr behind gluetun and get a fully private entry point while all your content is open and accessible from your proxy to plex/jelly/home assistant, tivimate, whatever. Only downside is your media server will have to transcode to reach external clients but that’s still way better than exposing your links that include passwords.
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