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While the electronics components are pretty much off the shelf, the housing is not. There is no match in existing open designs for the specific combination of modules and criteria for this project. Instead, I created a case from scratch. In this post, I present the work that went into creating the weather-proof case that will house the open security camera.
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On the hardware side, the open security camera project would ultimately not exist if there were suitable hardware kits readily available. But, the physical device that will act as a camera had to be created. However, to the extent possible, our goal was to avoid starting from scratch. In this post, I describe the components selected and the reasoning behind it.
Read more “Scoping hardware options”
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Can it really be true, that no-one, on a planet of almost 8 billion people, has successfully built a business around creating open security cameras? Even with very basic requirements? In this article, I outline the security camera project’s needs and ponder on the state of business.
Read more “MVP’s for the camera and existing alternatives”
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At Molnix, we recently faced the need to equip an area with security cameras. All of our sites up until now are managed by our providers, including security cameras. However, this new area does not have any. Before we start using the new area, we need our own security camera system. This is the start of an article series, where I describe our journey to having our own, open and trustable security camera system.
Read more “The open security camera project”
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Following our very recent contribution of shell API examples to ISPConfig, the effort quickly grew into a full-blown command line tool for ISPConfig. I noticed the functionality we needed and the script we were building were a good fit for creating a proper CLI. With many other users in the community having expressed similar needs, I realized this was a good moment to contribute. The tool was merged to ISPConfig yesterday. We are currently asking for feedback on the tool’s current state and inviting more developers to contribute further functions. Read more “ISPConfig shell CLI by Molnix”
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In this blog post, I share a contribution to ISPConfig. We are happy users of ISPConfig and have extended its use to some of our bash scripts. Since there were no readily examples on shell and curl usage out there, we decided to create our own. Read more “ISPConfig bash CLI script for REST API”
Cloud suite
It has been a year since migrating to Nextcloud, and it has been a great year indeed. We are happy to announce that Molnix Nextcloud is now up to version 13. That is two major releases within a year. Despite the rapid speed of development and introduction of new features, stability has only improved since the ownCloud days. With Nextcloud 13 come several new features and improvements as well as lots of fixes. Read more “Molnix Nextcloud upgraded to version 13”
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Recently, we created a portal management system for Finnish Red Cross. We agreed to deliver the project in less than 3 weeks in order to help Finnish Red Cross to showcase the system in Educa fair. As usual, we delivered the project in style. And most importantly, the feedback has been good. Read more “Portal management for Finnish Red Cross”
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It is with pleasure that I can announce our latest service, GitLab. We have successfully migrated all our own and client projects to https://gitlab.molnix.com. Read more “Molnix adopts GitLab”
Backup
I started my first business with offering a backup solution. This was back in year 2000, using Bacula and rsync. Ever since, I have been involved in providing backup solutions, and developing extensions to them. Our current business offers both BackupPC and UrBackup. Furthermore, our ownCloud and Nextcloud services have some very nifty aspects that are applicable to backup contexts.
With the increasing focus on cloud solutions and scalability, I find there is a gap in the open source backup offerings. In this post I explore the features needed and propose a new backup solution or a goal that current solutions can evolve into. Read more “A proposal for a new open source backup solution”