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- buy a cheap IP camera because you hear there’s open source firmware
- the only open source firmware is thingino, which is slop
- well shit, if it’s my only choice I guess that’s it
- reach for it months later for a specific important thing
- it doesn’t connect to wifi even though nothing has changed about the network
- the reset procedure doesn’t work at all
- all of the new docs are extremely LLM slop instructing you to do things that don’t work
- all of the old docs are from 2024 and also don’t work
- the docs for doing remote access on the camera, an extraordinarily common thing if you don’t have a host that can act as a stream collector, are just the text “placeholder” and a blurb elsewhere about how I may or may not have to recompile from source to do this
- fucking hell where’d I put the flashing cable, I’m going back to stock firmware
@zzt I only realized after buying a pet feeder to install Localkit on and being unable to properly install it that the whole project was fucking slop.
Ended up ripping the guts out of the feeders and replacing them with ESP32s running ESPHome. The days of being able to trust open source projects are over.