[Gibbon1]

I'm reminded of my dad, bought some surplus home security cams. They were surplus because they were discontinued on account of the firmware being shitty + spyware. Basic shlocked together embedded linux crap.

Found someone that had developed fixed firmware. Re-flashed them with that. Figured out how to get them to send a notification to his phone when the motion sensor goes off so he knows when the deer are eating his wife's plants.

My dad is 83.

[neilv]

One of the early Foscam pan-tilt-zoom IR cameras? Your dad did better than I did. I liked the hardware, for the price point, and wasn't aware of alternative firmware. I ended up putting it on its own LAN with an old OpenWrt router, and kludging simple motion detection with a little program that ran on the router. (Script pulled frames from the camera with some HTTP interface using wget or curl, and used ImageMagick for the hard part.)

[Gibbon1]

Foscam sounds familiar. My dad just mentioned it in passing.

My dad is also retired. And the only thing he doesn't seem to be able to do is nothing.

[vkazanov]

My dad's in his 60s. Runs marathons once a year. Works on backend stuff in a ML startup.

I am not sure I can make 10 km these days...

[coldacid]

I wish my dad was still that clever and he's almost two decades younger. Your dad is awesome.