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@thecityinspeech

To me, Matrix has the smoothest onboarding experience (assuming you are fine with the main instance - it is pretty analogous to mastodon onboarding in my experience), but it doesnt have built in voice, video or screensharing. It also seems to have a lot of negative things get discovered as people look into it more - both technically and politically/philosophically. I am not an expert on its issues at all, but if you do some poking around on the matrix tag here, you probably can find links to read and make your own determination.

@thecityinspeech

Is there a need for voice and persistent chat to be provided via the same service?

Pretty much everything I can find that is all-in-one seems bad or not mature enough that I want to use it. If you've got a group willing to use a service for each need, then teamspeak/mumble + your pick among matrix/irc/XMPP seems like the "established open source" route. My college gaming group used an IRC server and mumble server hosted by a member and I generally liked the experience. Hexchat worked well enough for the non technical folks to get on irc, and the mumble client is functional, but not sleek and shiny.

I feel like the sell is too hard for my current groups, so I'm holding out hope for Roomy (https://a.roomy.space) or Fluxer (https://fluxer.app) to be viable in the near future. But they also seem to have their own issues.

@westhisup

I have a Reolink PoE doorbell camera that I use with frigate and have been very happy with it (installed around a year). I limit its traffic to the local network since it does phone home.

Frigate does local object detection. I use a Coral Tensor m.2 card for it, but there is support for GPU and CPU detectors as well.

Frigate also integrates into home assistant and supports a pretty big variety of cameras. I have a hikvision one in a different area of the house that feeds into frigate as well.