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  • ikidd@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldRaspberry Pi 4B
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    4 days ago

    idk about a 4b these days but the 5’s are stupid priced. You can get a refurbed 6th gen intel machine with 16gb of ram and an SSD for the price of a 4Gb Pi 5. Add an ESP32 running ESPhome or Firmata and you’ve got everything you could do with a Pi and a lot more.







  • These anti-dumping duties have been in since 2014 with no appreciable result in jumpstarting a home-grown PV panel industry. So I think we can safely say that the only effect of them has been to cripple PV use in Canada over the past decade. The large users will just do an end run on a container of panels from China via Vietnam, anyway. So it’s the small user that gets screwed. Maybe that’s by design, I guess we need to follow the money to see where this regulatory lockin is benefitting someone. But it isn’t consumers.

    I’d have been fine with it if there was a domestic industry to protect, but it doesn’t exist in NA. And before some smart guy says “but Canadian Solar!!!1!”, you’ll want to look into that brand a bit closer.




  • IDK how Frigate handles alerts, but Blue Iris will write an alert to MQTT topic if it matches object recog, and I have an app MQTT Alert that watches that and goes nuts if it comes up. The BI android app is underwhelming in its alerts.

    I’d have to figure Frigate has some sort of MQTT capability. I tried using Frigate but it was pretty basic for my needs, so I moved on.