Daniel Perelman
The problem# Last time, I described how I set up a way to stream a web cam attached to my desktop to a Home Assistant dashboard on my smartphone, so I could view it from anywhere on my local network. More specifically, I described the actual good solution I settled on and not the detour I took...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I wanted to set up a way to get a live video stream of one part of my living space no matter where I was at home, and I wanted that stream to be easily viewable by any member of the household, but not by anyone else. Since where I wanted the camera pointed was near my desktop which I...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# While I use the command-line and keyboard-based interfaces a lot to manage files, I also regularly use graphical and mouse-based interfaces. As with any time there's different ways of interacting with a system, there's some times when in one mode when you want the features of the...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# My Android phone's camera app has an option to take a "motion photo", which, similar to the iOS "live photo" feature, records a short, silent video along with the photo. When viewing the photos on the phone, there's an option to play the video. But image viewer programs on my computer...