What a fizzer. after days of talking it up, sending us home, cancelling freight services and public transport, Alfred headed north away from us and degenerated into a tropical low in the last hour or so.
Youtube seems to enforce a 12 hour streaming limit so I had to change the URL a few times when it timed out. Then I found a weather setting so its still up!
www.youtube.com/live/KwGRpF-Cvp8?si=mQuM5AUsBVTC3fVe
Notes on the tech:
My Reolink doorbell camera is managed by a Synology NAS with a bunch of other cameras (10 all up). Synology Surveilance Station allows you to stream to YouTube so it was an interesting learning curve if nothing else. The Reolink is my only wifi camera because it was impossible to get a network cable to it. Instead, I tucked a 24v power supply under the tiles above the door and used the existing wiring to power the camera. There is a chime unit which plugs into a power point inside. (I still have the horrors when I remember running 24 network cables through a 2 story house 12 years ago). I have a PoE switch in the ceiling space for the cameras mounted in the eaves.
The Synology also connects the cameras to Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4b powered by a PoE hat. That is another story.
I recently retired my first Synology NAS after about 12 years. I had replaced 2 out of 5 x 3 Tb hotswappable drives in it in the last couple of years. I replaced it with another Synology with 2 x 16 Tb mirrored drives as the number of cameras overpowed the old NAS. Sold the old one for $450 AUD!
