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Up at 6.45. A very quiet night. Woken only once at 3.30. Already too late to test the night time performance of my new security camera. It was already twilight and it looked like bright daylight on the monitor. The same tabby cat did two tours at intervals. In the morning I woke up and went straight back to sleep. The clock shot forwards.
8.25 I am going for a walk.
8.50 Back again. A quiet Saturday morning. The Lapwings were calling and flying in circles. The vegetation was moist, overgrown and lush. With a few fallen twigs from yesterday's gales. The clouds provided drama as they scudded their shadows across the fields.
Most of the passing cars were electric. Many of them were decidedly chubby. With deep grills and hatchbacks. Not quite people carriers but not 4x4 SUVs either. The ID4 and Ioniq are typical of this class. Huge wheels and voluminous build. No doubt designed for comfort. Where the unfit occupants can easily enter and alight without climbing or sinking. Not one Tesla this morning. They usually dominate the commuter scene on this road in surprising numbers. It is Saturday and I am walking much later than usual. So one can't read much into this personal observation.
For anybody who is interested the Reolink CX810 camera and matching PoE switch leave nothing to be desired. Plug and play from the off. All the information you could wish for in the menus. Without overwhelming detail and endless error notices. In comparison the TP-Link C325WB is an amateur, unfinished product and unfinished project. One I might well return to the dealer. Even at a financial loss. Life is much too short to be doing the manufacturer's development work for them.
I will probably buy another CX10 to go at the front of the house. If only I didn't have to deal with a nonchalant online dealer and dictatorial delivery driver. It took the dealer several days for them to actually send the item. Despite bragging about their speed of dispatch from claimed stock.
Then the delivery company and their Bolshy driver[s?] provided the shite on the cake. Costing me another two days of anxiety [waiting at home] before receipt. Isn't there some kind of contract with the customer involved? When a delivery is accepted by a transport company and confirmed with the customer on Tracking and email? It seems not. In a highly competitive sector, with online customer reviews, they obviously don't give a crap!
9.45 I ought to go for a ride. Village charity shops or into town? Is there anything I desperately need in town?
12.00 Back from a ride to the shops in the next village to the south east. About 13km each way. Gone for two hours. Headwind going. Crosswind coming back. Mostly sunshine. Increasingly breezy. I wore the Scott flat shoes without noticing them. There is no greater praise.
Both cameras recorded my movements outside the house. Both front and back. I "Restored" the camera in the Reolink app to access the Reolink camera on my phone. Now working fine. Both cameras now send me instant notification videos of myself trespassing. I still can't get past the hurdles that TP-Link put in the way of adding a camera to the PC App. It seems I am not alone.
I'll have an early lunch and then drive into town.
15.50 Returning from town. Where I bought a couple of 10m Cat 7 network cables at a discount DIY store. Somebody was in the drive earlier. I was alerted on my phone. Nothing to worry about. It was my neighbours' boy.
Dinner was a fry up with chips. Chicken and brown mushrooms. There was a lot of chicken because I bought it from a different shop. My regular supermarket had run out. There was enough for four meals but I couldn't spread it over so many days.
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