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Cost is not important to me at the moment. What I’m trying to do is get rid of my “smart” phone.

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Raspberry Pi Camera Group Test

Raspberry Pi Camera group test, comparing the ZeroCam, Raspberry Pi Camera V2, and the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.

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I rolled it all into one to keep the thread active. There are more specific threads and they languish in obscurity.

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You seem to be pushing all my right buttons. :slight_smile: I don’t have time to watch the video now, but that’s another thing I’m interested in - trail cameras. I want something that works outdoors over my own network - Linux, open source, no cloud provider etc. All that good stuff.

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Has anyone asked the chickens if they are happy with this surveillance? :slight_smile:

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I’m a fan of the raspberry pi tech! So many possibilities - like camera’s.

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It’s mostly for their benefit, actually. I want to be able to sit and drink coffee where it’s nice and warm, instead of outside in the rain and wind like a schmuck. And if a coon dog appears on my screen in real time, I can just pop outside and bust a cap in his ass right quick.

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Do they really have coon dogs in Finland?
I thought they were some Hollywood myth…

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We’re getting off topic here, but yes, we certainly have raccoon dogs. It’s a relatively new invasive species.

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Well Im better informed now :slight_smile: thank you.

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I was looking forward to see what they came up with, after having heard about them at an early stage in their development. I must say that I am disappointed: Too expensive with too little benefit. :frowning:

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If you don’t care about speed or trustworthyness, then sure you can use an old Android phone (for slightly better trustworthyness and longevity I would recommend to buy a phone supported by /e/ foundation - personally I use Samsung Galaxy S3 or S4 with Samsung Exynos chipset and replaceable battery ).
If however you want reliability and speed and trustworthyness, buy a proper wifi router.

Here are my more detailed shopping recommendations for phones and laptops and gateways:
https://source.redpill.dk/system-phone/tree/GET.md
https://source.redpill.dk/system-desktop/tree/GET.md
https://source.redpill.dk/system-gateway/tree/GET.md

I dislike Raspberry Pi (for small embedded computing I prefer Olimex LIME2 or Olimex A64 boards which are both proper OSHWA-certified Open Source Hardware, unlike all that RPi crap).
For cameras I don’t buy cheap - I recently bought a Brio Kurokesi kit which is just awesome (but not cheap): Rework kits | Kurokesu

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A New All In One Raspberry Pi CM4 Desktop PC! Touchscreen, nVME

This is the Chipsee AIO-CM4-156 An awesome all-in-one Desktop PC powered by the RASPBERRY PI CM4! With a 15.6" 1080P touchscreen and support for an nVME SSD, this Raspberry pi AIO is pretty nice! The Chipsee CM4 AIO is an all-in-one desktop computer based on Raspberry Pi CM4 – easy to use, perfect for developers and makers who are accustomed to the Raspberry Pi and are looking for a computer they can use on a daily basis. It is fully compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4 Linux distribution and offers the full Raspberry Pi GPIO connector for further expansion. Learn More Here: [AIO-CM4-156 | Chipsee]

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Put An Atomic Clock in Your PC - Open Source Time Card

This is really cool!

The Time Card is an open source PCI Express card that brings atomic clock level accuracy to your PC. Using a Rubidium miniature atomic clock, the Time Card turns your PC into a Stratum 0 primary time server.

Time Card is the heart of the Open Time Server Project
[http://www.opentimeserver.com/]
This spec can be accessed at
[http://www.timingcard.com]

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Yes - its really cool but what are you actually going to use it for?
What do you gain from this that cannot be achieved with a properly configured NTP setup?
Other than mega geek-points of course :slight_smile:

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I saw someone discussing this very topic, I’d assumed it was here but maybe not.
Apparently it’s great for massive setups, where perfect timing reduces overheads by being so much more efficient, but probably not so great for the average Joe.

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Is it going to make much difference when running half a dozen Pi vaults?

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I’d say not from what I saw from it being discussed.

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It’d be for IoT and other projects where “perfect” timing is required and even lag across the net is significant. Maybe there is no internet connection for these chips/devices.

For the internet though, nah its geek points.

Sounds like a nice chip by MicroChip. They make a lot of chips in devices.

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