The solar/battery models don't run 24/7 - you can trigger them remotely (so you can check the live feed whenever) or they can trigger with motion. Still perfectly useful for a bunch of use cases (e.g. just checking if you closed something, or installed somewhere that motion sensing is reliable like a low-traffic corridor) but not super useful for, say, a front door.
Just to second this - I've upgraded all but one camera to Reolink RLC-810A a few years back and they're rock solid. All offline (no internet, but connected to Home Assistant on a separate LAN), all powered by a cheap unmanaged PoE switch from PB Tech. (Edit: this one).
They're recording 24/7 to their local memory, but I almost entirely use them via Home Assistant's ability to pull a JPEG directly from the camera (because it takes a fraction of a second at 4k vs the unbearable pain of waiting >10s for video to buffer even at SD resolution).
You're right in that running HA just for a WoL timer would be silly, but (presumably) it's already running for other, less silly purposes.
I'd say the main benefit is when the machine requires regular (as in daily) reboots, or if it's something you don't trust is fully private and want to be powered off outside work hours. Not useful for me, but I can see why it would be handy.
I've been trying to ride my bike into work instead of driving lately, but today it decided it's had enough of hauling my fat arse around and the derailleur hanger snapped in half.
Probably should use it as an excuse to upgrade, but I hate shopping for expensive things.
FedEx have their own drivers in Auckland?
I can confirm that they have at least one.
To be fair though, our supplier invests a fairly large chunk of money in freight, and in the past ran their own dedicated flights when the previous carrier (maybe TNT? Can't remember) wasn't reliable enough. I have no idea if FedEx is that good in general or if it's only for these sort of high-priority customers.
Between them, DHL and FedEx get almost all of our parts orders from Melbourne to Pukekohe overnight. They are unbelievably efficient compared to outfits places like Toll or Aramex that can't get packages across Auckland in under a week.
Like some kind of masochist, I volunteered to head in about 90 minutes early, park at Clevedon, and ride to meet them at the top. I was only about five minutes short of actually beating them to the top, which I'm pretty proud of. That climb is hard.
I'm thinking I might go without PoE and just meet my current need, then add a PoE switch to support cameras if or when I get them.
That's more or less what I did when the dirt cheap AliExpress cameras died - just got a PoE switch from PB Tech and a small pile of Reolink cameras (RLC810A). Definitely the best value-for-money, and works well with Home Assistant. Way better than those stupid splitters or having a pile of individual POE injectors.
Does the insurance cover a rental while waiting on repairs?
How many people actually want curved walls though?
People who hire fancy architects. Not people who have to work for a living.
I had to pay for a static IP just this week because it turns out the new ISP uses CG-NAT.
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Tangentially related: we've got an electric sit/stand desk that sometimes needs the controller resetting, but the only way to do so is to unplug it and wait for the capacitors to discharge, which takes at least 12 hours or so. I wonder if I can just add a push button and a resistor... 30 seconds is annoying, but would be a huge upgrade from can't-move-desk-until-tomorrow...