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Yeah, it's hard to find good ones. You could invert it to 120v AC and plug in a regular charger, but you lose efficiency doing that, not to mention the added danger, weight, and complexity.

There are various ways to use it, yeah.

Oh I think I get it now. So you can terminate the solar panel with something like this and then charge phones with a standard car charger with PD. I like that idea.

I'm not smart, can you tell me if having it behind a reverse proxy with certs and everything fixes any of these flaws?

I'm having trouble imagining what you're setting out to accomplish. 12v solar panels are higher than 12v. This one gets to 18v, for example. You need a solar charge controller to convert it to 12v, and then you'd need something like this to convert it to 5v to charge your battery bank. Whether your battery bank will "take" 12v without electronics to tell it to is beyond the scope of my knowledge, but AFAIK 5v is universally accepted.

Good to know. I had heard Anker did some shady stuff but never caught wind of a good replacement. The phone charger scene is obscene as seen by OP, and and I would rather buy from Anker than buy garbage.

I could be wrong, but I just did some quick research and it looks like the PD spec always supports all of those voltages. I also did a reverse image search of the image you posted, and it's some no-name brand from Amazon. Don't buy no-name brands from Amazon. Stick to Anker.

Will you be recording the video? HA doesn't do that on its own, but you can install the Frigate add-on if your hardware supports it. I recommend a good HDD for recording to. I have a WD purple just for video recordings.

I'm not sure how well an HA Green would do with Frigate, although it is possible to run it on a Raspberry Pi if you add something like a Coral via USB (https://coral.ai/products/accelerator/) to handle the heavy lifting... so a Green should be fine. Don't take my word for it, though.

I'm a fan of Dockge. Nice simplicity, easy to update container stacks, etc. etc.

Wrong, yes

That's exactly how I'd use it. It'd have a time delay, too.

Also, completely unrelated, but it's odd seeing a totally normal, non-tankie user from lemmy.ml.

It looks like the hEX refresh is the same price from that vendor.

RB5009 is better but more expensive. There's a PoE version that can power your WiFi APs in the future.

I also question the decision to put OpenWrt on it. RouterOS is solid. There's a learning curve, but it's worth it if you're a nerd.