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The title makes me remember my raspberry pi camera I made for my apartment in 2011. I hooked it up to a simple USB powerbank at the time, and then the powerbank
by INTPenis 4y ago
The title makes me remember my raspberry pi camera I made for my apartment in 2011. I hooked it up to a simple USB powerbank at the time, and then the powerbank to the power outlet. Thinking if anyone cut the power to my apartment it would still record for 15 minutes.
Of course had anyone cut the power to my apartment it would have no way to upload the recordings because I didn't add a 3G failover.
- xani_ 4y agoI remember some article of someone trying it, only to discover their power bank cut power for few milliseconds when you disconnected the external power supply, resetting the device...
- rldjbpin 4y agoi can attest to that. all of my cheap power banks demonstrate this behaviour. more importantly, as the article suggests, it can be hard to know if the battery itself is powering the device while plugged in (while getting charged) or if there is a passthrough, a la laptop charger.