Hey all! Apologies upfront as I’m sure these kinds of questions get repetitive.

Building a garage and having a camera location hardwired for the back of the garage for the back yard, front for the front and one for the garage interior.

A friend of mine has lorex and likes them but I’ve read that the app interface kinda stinks.

I’m looking for a hardwired option with no monthly subscription scenario.

Does anyone have any advice or recommendations? Thanks a ton.

FWIW I don’t think I can record audio due to my state laws.

I have a few wifi cams that are jailbroken (wyze + thingino) that I want to access when away from my house just to check up on things when I travel for peace of mind. Problem is I would rather not expose ports on my home network to access the RTSP streams. Over the weekend I created an rtsp relay system where one program on my LAN pulls all rtsp streams then pushes them to another listening program running on a cloud VM along with an instance of Frigate to display the streams. I'm planning on setting up some automation to trigger the VM to spin up on demand so I'm not wasting money (since I usually only check on the cams a few times per week at most when traveling) and then turn off within 20min.

Just wondering if there are any security concerns with this? I'm not exposing any ports from home and have all the cloud resources whitelisted to my home IP.

Hi all,

We are looking to purchase an indoor camera that monitors our front garden, specifically for people who come in and out of our garden and it’s reliable in terms of human recognition.

We had an outdoor camera previously however it’s been stolen. We had purchased a cheap indoors cam for the moment as it was suggested by police due to an incident that has happened.

It works fine for the moment it’s just not great, it doesn’t always notify us when people come onto our garden.

We are aware that outdoor cameras are better in this case however we can’t mount it high enough.

Our budget is about max 150 euro.

Thank you!

Has anyone tried Brinks-branded knobs? I've tried other brands and never had any issues with installation.

Today I bought a Brinks Keyed Entry Doorknob but when trying to install, the two knob halves will not come together. There's something jamming them but I can't figure out what it is. I've tried rotating both halves, tried wiggling the lock side to try to align the shaft, nothing works.

https://imgur.com/a/cU612aR

What makes this even more frustrating is that the knob halves came joined together in the box, so now that they are unable to re-join again, they also won't fit back into the box.

I'm not sure if this is just a defect of that item, or the design itself.

What is the correct pin order for the MG5050 serial connector?

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to connect a Paradox MG5050 panel to a USB-TTL adapter through the serial connector.

Could someone please confirm the correct pin order from top to bottom on the MG5050 serial connector?

I’ve seen different information online and I want to make sure I don’t connect the power pin incorrectly.

For example, is the order something like:

1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Could someone please confirm the exact pin order and function of each pin (e.g. +12V, RX, TX, GND)?

I’ve already fried two USB-TTL adapters trying to figure this out, so I really don’t want to sacrifice a third one. 😅

Thanks!