Security

AI-Powered Security Camera Reviews with Frigate, n8n, and Ollama

Frigate is great at detecting objects. It will tell you a person showed up at the front porch, or that a car pulled into the driveway. What it won't tell you is whether that person is your neighbor waving hello…

April 17, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation, Security

From Coral to Hailo: Why I Finally Swapped My Frigate AI Hardware

I have been running Frigate for quite a while now. The Google Coral TPU has long been the "gold standard" for edge processing object detection. It’s efficient, cheap, and handles MobileNet models like a champ. But as my camera count…

February 26, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation, Security

Goodbye Ring, Hello Privacy

With it being ever more likely that someone could access Ring cameras or lock me out of access to Ring footage, I decided it was time to leave Ring for the doorbell cameras. I had two, one on the house,…

January 13, 2026AI Projects, Security

Beyond the IP Address: Modernizing Homelab Infrastructure for Security and Scalability

In a growing homelab environment, managing services through raw IP addresses and port numbers quickly becomes a bottleneck for both security and usability, not to mention incredibly annoying unsafe browser warnings. My goal for this project was to move away…

January 11, 2026Home Automation, Security

AI-Powered Security Camera Reviews with Frigate, n8n, and Ollama

From Coral to Hailo: Why I Finally Swapped My Frigate AI Hardware

Goodbye Ring, Hello Privacy

Beyond the IP Address: Modernizing Homelab Infrastructure for Security and Scalability

From Smart Bulbs to Skynet: The 2026 State of my Home Automation

Home Assistant – How Did I Get Here?

Rainier Timelapse with Synology NAS