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Great Project! I just wish, their HDB would enable filtering on which cameras have Ethernet, and/or the data-lines connected on the USB-Power-Plug, so that I could equip them with USB NIC (for the ones that don't have ethernet), and then run them with a POE-Splitter.

Having the data pins connected would also enable lots of other nifty use-cases.

Also, have they managed to forward port the drivers to a recent mainline kernel in the meantime, or are they still on ancient vendor SDK kernel versions?

ESP32-S31 2 months ago

cr.yp.to/ is also a pretty cool URL, and has been around for a looong time

Is there a table of supported hardware, that contains info about the USB-connection (or ethernet) on these devices. Like, which have data-lines connected, can the device electrically do host and device mode? Can I use a POE2USBC adapter, that presents itself as a USB-network device to the camera? Ability to filter on those columns would be great. Is thingino using the Ingenic linux kernel 3.ancient SDK version, or do they have/use something newer?

The manual, as OP said, does not offer any explanation, why the device might show up with an additional MAC/IP at the upstream switch port, and which services it might offer. OP sounds knowledgeable enough to be able to exclude the possibility, that the additional MAC/IP could be from one of the PCs, like e.g. when playing with VMs using an internal bridge in the Hypervisor.

Maybe the device has a bigger "cousin" device, that includes "control via APP", and this feature was not properly/fully disabled on this one.

Was the network port bridged to both PCs all the time (as the description makes it sound, or did only the "active" PC get a functioning network connection? Could you tell from the FDB of the upstream device, if there were more than two MAC addresses active on the port? Did you (hopefully) open it up and make PCB pictures before chucking it?

Why did you not just login to the device, and switched off "Broadcast to multicast", or changed the destination address?

Edit: Some brands of Network-KVM use this, so that you can control the target device from another device, like e.g. an App on a tablet. That way you don't have to stand next to the target device in the noisy and cold machine room

This is a list of SOCs, not a list of devices containing these SOCs.

And for most cameras sold, you'll have a hard time figuring out pre-buy, what SOC it contains.

From the DTS posted in another thread here, the board looks to be running a 5.10 Linux kernel. OpenWrt proper runs much newer kernel versions, so the board looks to be running a vendor fork of OpenWrt branched of already a while ago. Maybe they are planning to catch back up to regular/normal/mainline OpenWrt at some point.

How "trustworthy" is the "dedicated network processing accelerator (NPU) (supports L2/L3 hardware processing, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, 20Gbps switching capacity, full byte wire-speed forwarding)"? Is it fully "hardware", auditable, or does/could it run some blob firmware with unknown/undocumented "features"?

How much of the European capabilities do you think would remain after Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Broadcom, Google, etc drop poisoned updates on to them at the next update/connection, scramble all the data, trigger endless bootloops? Disable Azure, AWS and iCloud for European IPs. Some messing with DNS and Cloudflare, along with using the flying stingrays (Starlink Satellites) to mess with mobile communication. Also pile up all Teslas at important traffic intersections into huge lithium battery fires.

Basically, it would send Europe back into the stone age, I fear. In under a week.

Maybe there'll be some trickery they can do in future versions with the AC to lower air pressure in the cabin, so the occupant(s) pass out, and can't attempt to mess with the cars "mission" anymore.

I want to like/use Doom (also to be able to recommend it to to new-comers), and it neatly solves many "beginner issues", but I can never get it to do code-folding like in my own emacs-config.

Specifically, I'd want these 3 types of folding in the same buffer:

- "Chapter & Block-based", like in `org-mode` - "Arbitrary lines folded", like in `vimish-fold` - "Semantic folding, any level", like in `hideshow`

(Un-)folding should always be done with TAB, only for folding vimish-style, initial visual selection is needed.

When doing that in DOOM, I always end up with visual corruption, when some of fancier default eye-candy is switched on and then I use several types of fold in the same document.

I think, I saw code-comments, that there is an all-encompassing folding function in the works, but not yet finalized/activated. Hmm, maybe I should give it another spin, last time was 5ish months ago.

Sounds nice, how is the ecosystem of plugins/extensions compared to Emacs? Are there Debian packaging plans?