Immich and Radicale definitely recommended. I’ve still got paperless-ng and plan to move to paperless-ngx as soon as I find the time. I’ve also got firefly-iii which is a big revolution to how I manage personal finance. Even my 17 old son has got into it … He couldn’t understand where all his hard earnings were going.

Looks like I have two options for Proxmox + Frigate:

a) full VM via a QEMU VM that then has Frigate as app container (Frigate website is not recommending this approach from what I understand)

b) Virtual environment (VE) thgrough the “Proxmox Container Toolkit” where Frigate is as a system container (i.e. docker container directly in the Proxmox environment, which eliminates the VM overhead. See here: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#chapter_pct

Looks like someone has got it up and running in the PCT environment https://www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/running-frigate-on-proxmox

Also, I need to get my hands on a Micro desktop with a PCIe slot so that I can stick the Coral unit in it. Any thoughts for cheap solutions on eBay?

Ah yes, thanks for raising. I had forgotten. So we have three Foss contenders:

• Frigate
• Motioneye
• Zoneminder

I’ve only tried ME about 6 years ago with RPi camera. It was alright but I’m sure things have moved on.

Thankyou for taking the time to explain. I was in fact going to get one Loryta cameras recomended by the Frigate website … If i can even find it in EU. Don’t want to pay the premium import taxes 😉

Are you able to expand? What exactly did not impress you? Motioneye (which I briefly used 3-4 years ago with a dodge camera) and Frigate seem to be those that are used mostly as OOS solutions and hooked up to either OpenHab or HA.

Yip, I already have pfSense installed with an isolated virtual network just for my home automation.

As I’m thinking of getting HA to look after my IP cameras with Frigate, I’m thinking of a mini PC wiht a PCIe Coral device installed. Would this make sense and are there others doing this i.e. have HA on a miniPC with Cora PCIe installed and Frigate on top?

But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn’t take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.

Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.

Although some appear to not be maintained anymore

I think some form of monetization is going to have to come to the federverse at some point. Money is what driver 95% of the internet. The point is making it sustainable and ensuring the money goes to the creators rather that a couple of greedy pigs that own massive corporations that have literally taken over the Internet. The internet has become what we see in geopolitics today. Lots of authoritarian, sovereign and non democratic countries. The Internet was born as an expression on democracy. In liberal democracies, you have (sustainable) capitalism that does not leave anyone behind (social welfare). The federverse is our hope to take internet back to the users but extremist ideas (no monetasation) will make this a missed opportunity. I hope someone is thinking about this.

Awesome Privacy looks goog. Need to explore.

The problem with many of these apps is that when you go looking for them on fdroid they are not there. Example in the above list is YouTube Revanced.

I confirm too that banking apps on /e/ is a bit of a nightmare. But I used /e/ for 3 years or so and was very happy until I moved to GrapheneOS.

Same mistake I made. But I’ll probably keep using it until the battery is completely dead.

I totally agree. Used pixels are superb with grapheneos. Syncthing is what i use ad a backup. I think the problemi is that google stops releasing updates after 5 yearss old units don’t get updates I think. I have the 5th June build and it reports a security update of December 2023.

Absolutely second this. Its been a game changer