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In just one location, I have a DSC PC4020 panel (that has two lead acid batteries), which is integrated with a PC4820 access control (another 2 batteries) and the COMBUS travels via an underground conduit to another building on the same system so there is a DSC PC4204 Power Supply/Combus Repeater Module with yet another two batteries.

I really getting tired of buying battery technology from the 1800s every year or two so I'd like to replace them all with LiFePO4 which should last 10 - 15 years. The caveat is of course that the trickle charger in these panels is designed to maintain lead acid batteries and not the right characteristics to provide maintenance for LiFePO4 batteries but one

With reference to the Home Assistant MQTT Alarm control panel integration, I know my panel for sure isn't supported or in any way integrated with Home Assistant but it seems it should be stupid simple to program an ESP32/Arduino to talk to it's serial port and integrate with Home Assistant. Anyone know of an ESP32 or Arduino program that works well with this integration that I could use as a basis to adapt to the particularities of my panel? Oddly the description says it is "used by 45.7% of the active installations" which seems a bit high and that being the case, why am I not able to find a large number of examples?

So with the ASA if one has a site to site IPSEC VPN tunnel and you want to copy something to a TFTP server at 10.10.10.1 (accessible via the IPSEC tunnel), one might try:

 copy running-config tftp://10.10.10.1/filename

and expect it to work but it never did because you need to source the inside interface, so the secret sauce was always to add “;int=inside”, as in:

copy running-config tftp://10.10.10.1/filename;int=inside

But now with 9.19(1)27 that is no longer working. Any insight appreciated.

I replaced a failed Reolink camera (after 1.9 years) with a Reolink CX410 last weekend on my deck and the area is also partially covered by a Reolink Duo with some overlap of the view between the two cameras. If I am viewing both the cameras live in BlueIris there is a significant delay on the live feed from the CX410 (like 5 to 10 seconds behind). I know it has some newer or more refined features like person, animal and vehicle detection and I am not interested in that but I can't find where I can turn off this type of thing to make the live feed more real time or if that is actually the cause of the delay. Any insight appreciated.

BTW: I absolutely love the color night vision, even in al

I was a software developer in a former life and I'd like to create some software (running on a small network connected embedded Linux server similar to an inexpensive raspberry pi) which integrates the PoE Doorbell camera with industry standard SIP video calls but also includes a relay that can momentarily energize a electric door strike to unlock the door.

Basically my plan is to receive the button press with ONVIF and then take the RTSP video stream from the camera and use that to make an actual SIP call to a Video Phone and once the call is answered we would relay the video and audio from the camera to and from the SIP telephone, in particular relaying the audio from the person answering

I have a Reolink Video Doorbell PoE, firmware version v3.0.0.2033_23041302. I have never connected it to any app, rather it is used for 24/7 recording via a constant RTSP stream (to BlueIris) and doorbell press notification only via the separate Reolink Doorbell Chime that comes with the unit. The list of problems with this setup was long and serious until I updated the firmware and now it’s almost flawless.

The remaining issue is that when someone presses the doorbell, the RTSP stream stops. Obviously this is one of the worst occasions to not record - when there is a visitor.

Any insight appreciated.

I just received a spoofed CLID (local number) call from the fake "Visa Security" about bogus charges (bogus in that the whole premise is false). This is just a normal cell phone on a mainstream carrier's network but we all know the magic of VoIP is often used to easily fake the CLID so my question is has STIR/SHAKEN been delayed for another decade or is it just completely ineffective and another government sponsored abysmal failure? I'd be interested to hear from anyone that has seen a positive change brought about by STIR/SHAKEN. It seems nothing has changed as far as receiving spoofed calls from bad actors.

So now that my Video Doorbell is working well with BlueIris, I would like to configure it to subscribe to the ONVIF notification for a Doorbell press and then do some IoT automations with MQTT and Home Assistant.

The recently released firmware (v3.0.0.2033_23041302) fixed a number of issues for me and the release notes say “Support working with IOT devices” but not much more. I have searched and searched (and then searched some more) but I cannot find any good documentation of what ONVIF events the camera supports, etc.

At this point I am tempted to start capturing the network traffic coming out of the camera and start a reverse engineering exercise however I am not sure this will be help

So I've been doing a lot with ESP32 BLE proxy and I see that with the latest update, ESPHome 2022.12.0 - 14th December 2022, the release notes state:

"...change to the underlying flash partition table that ESPHome 
uses. OTA will work, but to fully take advantage of the 
performance increases for bluetooth, it is best to at least one 
serial flash with ESPHome 2022.12.0 or later...."

But I use a vmware instance to run Home Assistant/ESPHome, so a direct serial connection is very difficult or impossible (I know I can configure serial port passthrough but the only serial port on the ESXi host is used for UPS integration).

Initially, I normally do a manual download and then u

About three weeks ago we had unusually heavy wet snow and I got up early to shovel the driveway next to my igloo. The snow was very heavy and it was quite a work out. I started to have chest pain and even though it was much more intense than any heart burn I ever had before, I stubbornly attributed it to that mostly harmless malady and pressed on until I was finished but by then I was feeling quite ill. I decided to retreat to my igloo to lay down on the bed until my heart rate and other vitals got back to baseline. Just as I reached the bed, I felt very faint and dizzy. I almost collapsed into the bed and waited for this to pass. It really felt like I had made it just in time or I would

Can someone explain the current state Stir/Shaken?

It seems to be a dumpster fire of inconsistent delays, extensions and logistics?

It also seems not to have had any positive effect(s) (at least not yet)?

Will VoIP providers ever be able to supply us with a certificate which with to sign our outbound traffic?

Is there any good information anywhere on how someone can leverage it or is it still totally useless at this point?

Has anyone actually benefited from this enigma? If so, how?

I doubt I’m the only one that gets more confused the more research I do :)

Any insight appreciated.

Coming up on two months since I opened a TAC case trying to get a batch of Cisco ASA FPR-1010's properly licensed. Last time I checked the TAC case was 176 pages when downloaded as a PDF, must be well past 200 by now. I've sent them the SO and line item #s for 30 units of entitlement when I only have 25 units and they keep telling me these don't include include the encryption license so I keep getting daily nag messages that I'm "Out of compliance" but these are licenses are INCLUDED with the unit, zero dollar cost, L-FPR1000-ASA and L-FPR1K-ENC-K9. They are more difficult to provision because they won't run encryption until they are "licensed" and we would normally just bring up an encry

Perhaps many of us are aware that Ketamine used to be (in the past) the one drug you could count on to not have been tampered with or adulterated because it was so cheap, having been manufactured and diverted by the metric ton there was really no need to add MSG or anything else that is similar in appearance but with the increase in popularly and a marked increase in consumption (no doubt in part due to the pandemic) that ship has now long since sailed.

Of concern is that I’ve seen a few posts recently where reference has been made to Ketamine obtained in a vial being some paragon of safety, I suppose on the theory that a sealed vial is just that, sealed!

I hate to be "one of them" but in

I searched looking for this information (here and elsewhere) and was surprised at the difficulty finding a clear answer. I'm installing a number of 2-wire smoke detectors connected to a DSC PC4020 panel via a DSC PRM-2W (2-wire smoke detector module). Spec sheet says the detectors consume 50ma in alarm and of course a lot less than that in normal operation (e.g. not in alarm).

Can I use the standard 2 pair, 24 AWG telephone wire used for most alarm detectors? What is the maximum distance of a 2-wire smoke detector loop?

Thanks so much!