We have a all-in-one keyboard and mouse. Labeled function keys to start streaming services with Chrome in kiosk mode. Obviously, mouse to navigate is in some ways more work than a remote, but actually much faster. Similarly, typing for a search is way faster with keyboard. Side benefit is that it’s larger size means it won’t get lost in the couch cushions.
I have a low power nuc that I use to watch TV. All streaming services + KODI or whatever. I don’t know why I would use some proprietary dongle. I prefer FOSS.
I mean if it’s homelab, it’s ok to be pets. Not everything has to be commoditized for the whims of industry.
Eh? TV boxes? Just use a web brower. What is a TV box?
I think solely focusing on usability for “power-users” single page makes sense. Nevertheless, I think web design seems to prefer many pages though I don’t know if that’s driven by user-friendliness or driving up the “click-through” rate.
I don’t know if you’re into this, but this would be a perfect project to learn a new language or framework.
Do you mean RTSP?
Camera: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086L8TWM5?psc=1
Also use Motion with post-Motion capture alerts sent via XMPP. Got the family on XMPP so it works out.
Not answering your question, BUT I went with POE IP camera in the end. They one I got form Amazon has an IR blaster and filter so it can see in black and white at night. No good Open-source HW options for that as far as I’m aware. Access via an RTSP on VLC or MPV. I use motion to access web streams and motion detection
Cool. Though I like to use vifm with the tree command.
At the end of the day, just move providers. Can’t beat the hydra!
After that I agree with the other responses on here. With price being a wash, I prefer larger drives for less hands-on replacement and lower power usage.
Price is king for me! I optimize for lowest price per TB with good quality drives.
I get that. But I think the quote refers to corporate infrastructure. In the case of a mail server, you would have automated backup servers that kick-in and you would simply pull the rack of the failed mail server.
Replacing drives based on SMART messages (pets) means you can do the replacement on your time and make sure you can do resilvering or whatever on your schedule. I think that is less burdensome than having a drive fail when you’re quite busy and being stressed about having the system is running in a degraded state until you have time to replace the drive.