Some of my favorite pastimes are learning new technologies and entertaining myself with audio, video and pictures. To this end, I travel in my RV with a tiny computer (Lenovo M73 Thinkcentre) running several guests under Proxmox. I use Jellyfin for my recorded movies and tv shows, home videos, music and photos. I have a file server with a USB hard drive for file storage. I use an ONN Android TV to stream video on my TV. I run Home Assistant mostly as a development stage for my home automation.

Private Network with Internet Access

With these servers, I need a private network. One nice solution is to install OpenWRT on an old dual band router and configure it as a travel router. The router has two radios – 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. One is used for the private network and the other for connection to a public wifi network. I found that a better solution is to use a standard dual band router with a 5 GHz network extender. I use the extender to connect the router wan port to a public wifi network. If public wifi is not available, I use a mobile hotspot instead.

I need to learn something new today so I decided to live stream my security cameras. Frigate seems to be the goto for my Proxmox/Home Assistant setup. Frigate uses Real TIme Streaming Protocol (RTSP) via TCP. I use Wyzecams, Blink cameras and a Reolink video doorbell. The Wyzecams can be hacked to use RTSP but not the Blink cameras. The Reolink supports RTSP.

New Tapo Cameras

I went for cheap replacements for my old cameras with two Tapo C110’s (indoor) and two Tapo C113’s (outdoor). They both use RTSP natively and work with very low light. Two of my outdoor Blink cameras are battery operated and can be placed anywhere. However, battery operated cameras are not practical for live streaming. That means I’ll need to get creative with powering my outdoor cameras.

The first step was to get my new cameras on the network using the Tapo app.

I used a mostlychris video to get Frigate installed as a Proxmox container with a live stream of a Tapo camera.

Hardware Acceleration

My server is a Lenovo M73 Thinkcenter with an Intel Core i7-4765t which is a 4th generation (Haswell) processor.