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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • For indoor cameras, I use TP-Link tapo wireless cameras, and hikvision for outdoor. I put all of them on an isolated camera wlan and vlan without internet. the tapos work fine without internet access, but the status light will always be orange as it tries to reach some tplink aws IP to verify connectivity.

    All the hikvision cameras and tapos support rtsp.








  • make sure it’s configured for clean shut downs before your battery runs out, auto power up on restoration, and hope it doesn’t happen. you will eventually have an outage that outlasts your batteries.

    I have a large string of batteries from an old telco office, that runs my rack for 14hrs (calculated, I shut everything down around this time) and that did not last for the 2-3 day outage we had after a storm. Without a generator, you will inevitably have an outage, but if you are prepared, then you can mitigate any damage. use NUT if you need to shutdown or power multiple devices from one monitored UPS