Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT Woody's Works Garage

zanyad said:

I'm definitely interested and following along!

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Thanks for the vote I’m curious to see how the vid does at the end of the day…

Denwood said:

Frigate has really impressed me.. so any kind of detection on a camera seems kind of irrelevant now, ha. All of my current cams are POE. You basically feed the lower res “sub” feed to frigate for motion detection/recognition, and then it records the main feed when it needs to. You can configure 24/7 recording but the ability to tune motion, add motion masks etc makes motion recording very reliable. I have been recording on SD cards on the cameras using the Amcrest app to view...but going forward that will just be a backup. After just a day playing with frigate I’m sold. It presents all the “events” from the entire camera set and provides a thumbnail of the actual detected object, zoomed in. Basically a live index that you can quickly drill into for full res 4K video. If you’re trying to find an event it’s super quick/easy to review it..and lightning quick. I’m impressed.

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That's awesome! I'd look into it myself, but I only have the video doorbell. Seems overkill for one camera since the only thing I'm really missing is package detection. Maybe if I add more cameras later.

Denwood said:

I've noticed that there is a WIDE disparity in effectiveness despite companies marketing "induction" capable for their cookware. Then I got to thinking, "How much does one save by going with a cheaper pot, and how do you even compare them" ????

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See, this is the kind of interesting "Dennis science" I knew you would apply to Home Assistant! I love these niche use cases for smart home stuff.

Denwood said:

I'll slowly bring over automations. I wanted to give things a test drive though and see how good the HA platform is for graphing, and well, cool automations.

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Spoiler alert: HA is awesome at graphs AND automations. And the dashboards are extremely customizable.

I see you're well off to the races with automations and dashboards. The induction-power-boiling dashboard you set up looks great. The sky's the limit, really.

And if you develop a more permanent dashboard eventually, you can heavily style it with themes and custom cards and custom CSS. The built-in look does the job, but just know you can really get expressive with it if you want to!

Denwood said:

A month or so back, I was approached by Reolink to do a review on their video doorbell. This is a new thing for me, requiring some thought about whether or not I wanted to go down this road with my channel. I figured I'd give it go as I was aware of this company's products, particuarly in the world of standalone solar powered security cameras. I was also looking for a video doorbell, so this kind of worked out. In any case, the company sent out their video doorbell (battery) to review. If you consider the time it takes to set up, shoot and edit a video, I'd be working at about $3/hour on this project, but I figured it was worth checking out this side of things.

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I think that's pretty cool!

I thought the doorbell video was great, and the sub-10min runtime is a nice spot to be. Information dense, but doesn't drag on too long.

Great points about RTSP with the battery model. I think for anyone wanting to go outside the Reolink ecosystem with it, the WiFI or even better the PoE models are better for home automation like you said.

Having multiple models with different features is awesome though, Reolink basically sell 4x different doorbell options. I love that, and I love how they build in multiple ways to power and use each model. They are always a favorite with HA users because they are relatively affordable, well-thought out, open to 3rd party interactions, and don't force a subscription.

Doing a product review might not be a huge cash grab, but I think the way you think about and give information on products, it could easily fit within your channel and could possibly be a place to grow bigger sponsored videos. I think as long as you feel the product is good and is legitimately interesting to you, no harm in doing reviews.

nicholam77 said:

That's awesome! I'd look into it myself, but I only have the video doorbell. Seems overkill for one camera since the only thing I'm really missing is package detection. Maybe if I add more cameras later.



See, this is the kind of interesting "Dennis science" I knew you would apply to Home Assistant! I love these niche use cases for smart home stuff.



Spoiler alert: HA is awesome at graphs AND automations. And the dashboards are extremely customizable.

I see you're well off to the races with automations and dashboards. The induction-power-boiling dashboard you set up looks great. The sky's the limit, really.

And if you develop a more permanent dashboard eventually, you can heavily style it with themes and custom cards and custom CSS. The built-in look does the job, but just know you can really get expressive with it if you want to!



I think that's pretty cool!

I thought the doorbell video was great, and the sub-10min runtime is a nice spot to be. Information dense, but doesn't drag on too long.

Great points about RTSP with the battery model. I think for anyone wanting to go outside the Reolink ecosystem with it, the WiFI or even better the PoE models are better for home automation like you said.

Having multiple models with different features is awesome though, Reolink basically sell 4x different doorbell options. I love that, and I love how they build in multiple ways to power and use each model. They are always a favorite with HA users because they are relatively affordable, well-thought out, open to 3rd party interactions, and don't force a subscription.

Doing a product review might not be a huge cash grab, but I think the way you think about and give information on products, it could easily fit within your channel and could possibly be a place to grow bigger sponsored videos. I think as long as you feel the product is good and is legitimately interesting to you, no harm in doing reviews.

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Thanks Nick for taking the time to provide all that feedback! Ai has made it a LOT easier to jump into the pool, knowing that you have a highly technical and tireless assistant at your side. I figure we’ll all become flash bags, or just a lot more productive as the tech progresses. Ha.

I had a guy come by today to quote on a tree removal ($$$$) but his eyes lit up when I said had a drone, and gear to provide cool marketing material for him. He has a very unique machine with a 100ft boom that can grab and then cut tree sections from the driveway, back lane etc and lift them over buildings etc. So perhaps there is hidden value to be found in getting competent at least with media!