A large arena, including FOH, BOH, maintenance crews, security details, riggers, electricians, etc, etc…

Is going to cost $150k or so.

You are defending the guy. He could pay everyone and it wouldn’t have even the slightest impact to his net worth.

Sheeran has enough money to pay all those folks, refund the tickets, and skip any venues owned by shitheads.

There is no reason to cover for this twit.

Silverware would probably be the oldest, my wife’s grandmother bought them in the early 1900s as antiques, and then some “modern” accessories that matched, now antiques themselves. They get used on special occasions mostly.

I have a slow cooker thats ~30yrs old, works great.

The DVD/VHS player with FireWire for minidv is also used while I convert old family videos to digital, and my old dv camcorder is now in my daughter’s hands to try making movies with her friends.

I’m sure there’s more, but thats off the top of my head.Based on the provided whitepaper, here are the two requested abstracts designed to attract high-value consulting clients.

1. WEBSITE ABSTRACT (For the download landing page) The Strategic Guide to Automated Speaker Tracking in Executive Environments

In high-stakes conference settings, the disconnect between audio and visual framing often degrades the professional quality of meetings, leading to disjointed communication and reduced engagement. Relying on manual camera operators is often cost-prohibitive and inefficient, yet poor automation can lead to jarring transitions and “false triggers” Tad.labs Whitep…acking.pdf .

This whitepaper provides a comprehensive analysis of speaker tracking systems, detailing how the integration of microphones, cameras, and intelligent software can automatically identify and frame speakers to create a more natural visual experience Tad.labs Whitep…acking.pdf . We examine the strategic trade-offs between different technical approaches—ranging from deterministic mic-level preset recall for fixed environments to adaptive DSP-based gating and sophisticated AI/CV multimodal systems Tad.labs Whitep…acking.pdf . Additionally, we address the critical risk management aspect of these technologies, exploring how organizational security and privacy policies may necessitate the deployment of on-premise AI solutions Tad.labs Whitep…acking.pdf .

Align your AV infrastructure with your operational requirements and security mandates to ensure seamless executive communication.

Download the full report to optimize your conference room experience.

2. LINKEDIN POST ABSTRACT (To drive traffic to the landing page) The “silent killer” of high-stakes board meetings? Poor visual framing.

When the camera fails to align with the person speaking, engagement drops and the professional polish of the meeting vanishes. But you shouldn’t need a full-time camera operator to fix the problem.

Our latest whitepaper breaks down the mechanics of automated speaker tracking so you can move from fragmented AV to a seamless executive experience.

Here is what you will learn:

Technology Matching: How to choose between deterministic preset recall and adaptive DSP gating based on your room layout and seating configuration. Operational Efficiency: Methods to automate speaker identification to remove the need for dedicated operators without sacrificing quality. Risk & Compliance: Why security and privacy policies often make on-premise AI/CV tracking the only viable option for sensitive organizations. Technical Pitfalls: How to avoid the common “false triggers” that plague basic speaker tracking setups. Stop settling for disjointed AV that distracts from your core business objectives.

Download the full guide here: [Link]

You can, but you can also run into some issues if you have git LFS, if one rejects for whatever reason, or sometimes just branch issues.

Thats why I prefer to go to one repo and push out from there, but it is absolutely doable with git by itself.

Be aware that you may need to temporarily use reolink’s app to set it up first - turn on the ports, for rtsp/onvif/http(s) then you can trash the app.

I think the HA integration will use the proprietary port/api for setup and you can avoid that way too, but don’t quote me on that one, you may want to confirm first.

I’m with you, I don’t like having to do the same thing more than once

I set up an “about my repos” repo, which has a readme detailing the process, and explanations of what is where and what they are all for, which is what I point clients to. That also has a link to my personal forgejo to demo local git as well (which can also sync, btw) along with a note that it may be down for various reasons like updates or changes I’m making, which is why I also sync elsewhere.

Depending on what services you’re selling to clients, it makes for a neat and simple addition to the list of skills to demo!

And you’re kind of making me want to use a mini rack as an excuse to my wife for a 3d printer, but she already knows I’m not getting rid of my 12-15RU racks under my desks, so I’m going to have to wait until we find the property we want so I can build my workshop…

I totally get that

Quick heads up - codeberg has an option to auto push changes to github, or the other way around with a github action (I prefer codeberg first)

May want to give it a try, from a client perspective you can also use that to note that a distributed approach provides resiliency (and now it becomes a selling point too)

With the app, yes, if you enabled notifications with thumbnails. Using the app and giving cameras internet access is the issue there. Deleted data stayed longer than people expected, too.

The crappy generated URLs for camera access was eufy’s fault, but thumbnails in notifications from the app I would consider a user ignorance issue personally.

That said I do not ever recommend using any manufacturer’s app, or giving a camera internet access. Isolate it on a vlan, firewall it off, and use a local open source NVR that you’ll access directly.

Reolink, Amcrest, and Eufy (only for their newer PoE line, they have a nice multi-lens feature and on-device processing for identification).

How is everything set up? Do you have a quick diagram or anything you can share? I’d like to understand how you have proxmox with a cert but not the rest, or what you mean by your own certs - like from LE? Where is your wildcard cert coming from?

They also want you off the sidewalk, away from everything, unable to see what they are doing, so on.

I’d bet they know what meta glasses look like too.

Edit: Mobile keyboard typos.

I kinda feel like thats the point behind putting this in the news tbh.

You can buy a cheap bodycam for under $100. A mid range option with UHD res and a wider angle lens is like $100-$250.

The police stuff (like Motorola) is around $400-$700.

All of these options are cheaper than Meta’s glasses and don’t come with the explicit purpose of invading privacy for the benefit of Meta.

There’s only one Jellyfin instance, its just additional libraries as mentioned.

Well, kind of, I have other JF instances as lxc’s but not for that reason.

Multiple sonarr instances, multiple radarr instances, one prowlarr, one qbittorrent, etc.

And one JF instance with different libraries for each.

You’ll need multiple instances, which is what I do for different reasons.

Conferencing hardware from lightware (upstairs) and crestron (downstairs). Not something worth bothering with though, just get a CEC adapter like the pulse eight.

You can try streamyfin which is enabled by default, but what’s likely happening is that your phone is disabling it as a background app. I’d check your phone settings for power management/pausing background apps. I can tell you that audio only playback with the screen off and as a background app works just fine with JF (official client), I was just using it that way earlier today.

Thats a client config issue not a server issue.

Go to settings > client settings, enable the background audio with the checkbox:

When companies decommission their hardware, they go to a large scale “recycler”. Most of the time that means pulling the drive on the PCs and maybe dropping another in before reselling it for less.

Some companies also recycle things like digital signage players, which could be purpose built hardware and mostly useless or purpose built software and fairly useful if you know what to check for. Or sometimes speakers, audio dsp’s, monitors, etc.

Other times when a company is being liquidated (like being sold off to pay for debts), it’ll get auctioned off. You don’t get to look at the details much (maybe one device pulled out in front of the crate the rest are in), you are buying in quantity, etc, but there can be good finds there.

I’m big on making use of perfectly good hardware with just a few years on them.