They’re still good to have (unless you have no gas appliances at all), but any good smoke alarm will also have carbon monoxide detection built in.

I don’t use it since I use a paid service.

I also use an antenna with a HDHomeRun network tuner for local shows. Have you considered that? It’s only over-the-air channels of course, but combining it with something like Plex or Jellyfin lets you stream and record live TV from anywhere.

https://thetvapp.to/ is probably the best you’re going to find for free.

All the best IPTV services cost money and are hidden away, usually with just a private Discord or Telegram. The one I use is around $40/year but they’re not taking new customers (they’ve been closed to new customers for 3 or 4 years now).

There’s some well-known services you can find via Google, like Apollo TV, but they’re usually overpriced and just resell streams from a cheaper provider.

A lot of these devices are Ethernet-only to simplify things. Ethernet is more reliable, people that use KVM/IPMI for remote management usually use it via Ethernet, and it means they don’t need to bundle wifi drivers with their OS. Also, some of them are powered using PoE (Power over Ethernet) to avoid needing a separate power cable.

You could plug it into a cheap wifi bridge to make it wireless.

It might be your ISP trying to block it. I’m surprised they’re not using HSTS to force HTTPS.

wait for a Steam sale.

Not sure why someone in this community would suggest Steam over GOG. Every game on GOG is DRM-free, so you own it forever and the installer will keep working even if GOG goes away.

Games on Steam are a license they can revoke at any time. You don’t actually own the game. Some games are DRM-free, but there’s no way to get a standalone installer for them.

Some people pirate or crack games they legally own, just so they have more flexibility and aren’t treated like a criminal by DRM systems. You don’t need to worry about that with GOG.

Why not use a provider like AirVPN that lets you use the same port number all the time?

How does this differ from every other distribution method, though? You can just as easily do something malicious with an Appimage or Debian/rpm package.

If you want to share something with just some people, they can create a Tailscale account and you can share it with them that way.

For public access, accessing it using a domain that uses your public IP should work. Most routers let you do that (“hairpin NAT”). Although to be honest, most of my public facing things are on a VPS rather than on my home server. More reliable and a higher quality internet connection for a fairly cheap price per month.

third party cameras won’t support detection unless you also add a Unifi AI Port.

Does Unifi not support ONVIF events? Seems like a pretty major missing feature if so. I guess they really do want to lock you into their ecosystem.

Are there security issues specific to Flatpak? I would have thought it’d be more secure than Appimage, since it’s sandboxed.

They already said they’re using Tailscale, so this isn’t needed. They can just use the Tailscale IP everywhere. On LAN it’ll connect over the LAN, and away from home it’ll connect over the internet. It comes with a .ts.net subdomains too.

Use Unraid’s native Tailscale support. Add each Docker container to the Tailnet. You don’t need split horizon DNS when using Tailscale, as the Tailscale IPs will work both on and off your LAN, as long as you’re connected to Tailscale. Don’t use a subnet router. Tailscale is peer-to-peer, so it’s still going to connect directly over your LAN when possible (it won’t route out to the internet then back)

https://unraid.net/tailscale

For TLS, you could use the Tailscale built-in .ts.net subdomains. Should work out-of-the-box. Otherwise, to use your own domain, f you can’t get access to Namecheap’s API you could run acme-dns instead.

Looks like an interesting project!

Could you please consider publishing it to Flathub?

On Android, I use ytdlnis, which is a wrapper around yt-dlp. You can “share” a video from to YouTube app to ytdlnis and it’ll add it to the download queue.

How long do you want to store footage for? With 6 cameras at 8Mbps each, you’d get less than two days of video on a 1TB drive. You could drop the bitrate quite a bit if you use H265 instead of H264, but it’s still not a huge amount of storage.

Several manufacturers have sites to determine how much storage you’d need based on number of cameras, bit rate and how long you want to store the videos for. Just use any of those to get a rough estimate. Personally I’d recommend a 10TB or larger WD Purple Pro, since it has 512MB cache instead of 256MB.

For the doorbell, I’d use a proper doorbell cam that can use the existing wires for power. Reolink’s wifi one comes with an adapter to use it with existing wiring.

The Unifi cameras don’t support ONVIF, so you’re essentially locked into their ecosystem, and it’d be difficult to use them with a different NVR if you ever want to switch. Maybe that’s OK for your use case though.

Of course.

Resize your Windows partition to be smaller, then install Linux in the newly-freed space. You can boot into GParted to resize the partition.

If you have enough space for it, just keep it in the PC.

Since you’re using Hetzner, one option is to get a Hetzner storage box to store the media. 1TB space is $4/month (not sure about EU pricing). You can mount the storage on another system via NFS.

On-disk cache prevents a “thundering herd” problem when you reboot - an in-memory cache would be empty on rebootz whereas an on-disk cache survives a reboot. Linux handles caching files in RAM automatically.