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No, but I’m in the UK, so the lowest temp this doorbell has ever experienced here is around -8°C. Depending on where in the world you are, that might not even register as “cold”. Also, I’ve wired it with the official 16V power supply included in the box and the “chime adapter” dongle thingy, which turned out to be really important for it to function properly.

No idea how it compares to Ring, but my wife is a severe technophobe and she had no issues or complaints with Protect. We only have one doorbell + one camera connected to a CloudKey+ though, so your mileage may vary.

Motion detection works reasonably well as far as I can tell, with person, vehicle and animal detection too.

Regarding the doorbell, one option you have is to try finding a second-hand Unifi G4 Doorbell (non-pro). It can be wired with only the two wires you already have. Just make sure you have relatively good 5GHz WiFi reception near your front door, because the 2.4GHz antennas on this model are notably bad.

Yes, you can just install and use it straight away, no need to mess with self-hosting if you don’t want to. You also don’t need a subscription, that just unlocks some extra features.

RustDesk is excellent, it’s basically open source TeamViewer. And if you don’t want to use their servers, you can even host your own.

They scream, for they do not know!

As a former sysadmin, this is correct.

Hey. I realise my comment may have come off as rude and made me sound like an asshole. It was not my intention to be disrespectful, apologies for that. The reason I posted that is because I read your post (thanks for taking the time to write and share it) and it left me a bit puzzled. I respect wanting something stable, familiar and that requires minimal maintenance, but you seemed to imply this is not possible with a more “traditional” NAS setup. Many of the points you raised about wanting an applliance-like experience are equally achievable on most Linux distros, with no license fees, and with a lot more flexibility, should you need it in the future (although I understand you don’t need or want it).

Take Debian for example (a.k.a. the world’s most boring distro, in a good sense). With the knowledge you demonstrated about the underlying services involved (BTRFS, Wireguard, etc), it would have taken you no more time to configure the same set of services on a minimal Debian install, it would also run rock-solid for many years, and updates would be entirely at your discretion (as they are with RouterOS). Plus, your pockets would be 50 EUR heavier. But for me, personally, by far the biggest avantage of going with Linux for a data storage solution like this is the possiblity of using ZFS.

Also, have this Debian meme:

“I do not want to play sysadmin in my spare time.”

* proceeds to do a bunch of sysadminy things, but on a proprietary OS *

Huh…

Aku Aku from Crash Bandicoot going “Ooga Booga” when you get a mask.

59 according to docker info.

It’s only a matter of textures, since the taste is the same throughout.

I don’t have a registrar to recommend, but for the nameservers (which would already solve your problem) I had a good experience in the past with Hurricane Electric (dns.he.net). AFAIK the only requirement from your list it doesn’t satisfy is being European (not 100% sure about MFA and scoped tokens).

+1. If you think about it, it’s kinda creepy. You have all the friendly little googly things looking at you, and then 3 tall faceless entities standing next to them.

Also, whoever did the price tags is a coward.

Exactly. I took this photo the other day exactly for this reason (but forgot to post it anywhere).

This is the way.

OKAMI 2

I’m at a loss for words here…

Hello there, fellow Rob Words enjoyer.

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Community name checks out, have a nice day.