I’m partial to the Lorex DB cams mostly because I live in a hot tropical environment and white finishes tend to absorb less heat.
https://www.lorex.com/collections/doorbells
One can pick them at half off during black Friday or Cyber Monday
+1 Tailscale. Works automagically!
I just tested with Starlink Mini. I can VPN into my entire home network and stream live video from my OTA antenna HDHomeRun box.
@Alan_Hepburn
Yeah, Lorex will claim they have not tested your transformer, thus claim it's not compatible. Maybe temporarily use the USB power to rule out the transformer as a contributor.
Also, if you do use a transformer not connected through an existing mechanical or electronic chime...
@Alan_Hepburn
Sounds like your phone tries to automatically switch back to your home wifi when it detects no internet connection when connected to the device wifi.
Have you tired to disable automatically reconnect to your home wifi?
I run a GPS+PPS Stratum 0 NTP source for <$50 on my local network and a firewall rule to redirect all client NTP requests to the my local NTP server.
Ensures all clients have the exact same time (<2 usec offset/jitter) even when WAN is down, and avoids flooding public NTP servers with NTP...
I've had two older WolfBox 850's (4K+1K) rear view mirror cams since December 2022.
I picked them up half price on Amazon Prime day.
Only issue was it took about a year to finally get them to update the firmware after I reported multiple times the on display compass heading for NE (would...
I'd be interested if anyone has any experience with the Starlink Mini. I am considering having Santa deliver one to my sister and BnL, who spend a lot of time on the road in their Class A Thor motor coach.
Hurricane prep completed!
Not necessarily in order of importance. food, water, gas, cash, tequila, beer, ammo, tp
I'll likely be hosting relatives from St. Pete.