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Turn my existing PCs into a subscription-free home camera network

He retired his Nest cameras and had the AI (alongside OpenCode) configure Home Assistant and the camera software on the PCs already in his rooms, Linux and Windows alike, so the household computers now double as his in-house camera system, checkable while traveling - no doorbell-cam subscription.

$10a month

How it works

  1. Retire the Nest cameras
  2. Set up Home Assistant
  3. Have the agent configure camera feeds from PCs on Linux and Windows
  4. Check the house remotely while traveling

Why it’s worth knowing

His doorbell-cam replacement wasn't new hardware - the agent turned the PCs already sitting in his rooms into the camera network.

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Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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