They (the older ones anyhow - newer CCTV and the brand new AppleTV-alike are fine) don't do wifi http login pages is the problem. If you have your laptop with you already, you can set it up to share its internet connection over wifi and log the Chromecast into that. Does mean you need to leave the laptop on though.
I find not every phone can both be on the hotel wifi and provide its own wifi, though some do. Almost all laptops will though.
Hmm, I have an iPhone. So lightning to hdmi I suppose
I travel a lot with work and usually end up just using my laptop. Some premier Inns have an HDMI port on the desk and also a USB so I always take an HDMI cable and External HDD with films on because that works quite well if you want to watch on a big screen. But most hotels don't have this setup. Often, the HDMI is disabled or inaccessible. Most of the time it's not worth the bother connecting to a bigger screen.
Yeah, phone hotspot
Yeah, phone hotspot
Imagine sending gen-z kids back to dial-up daysI used to have 120GB and the only time I came close to using it was when we moved hadn't got Internet connected and I bought myself a new 4k TV.
I switched to 1p mobile as it's the cheapest way to get full access to EE. I get 25GB now I only use a fraction. Turns out that urban and reddit don't use much data, but I've connected to my Plex server a few times when camping when it's been a bit miserable.
It was charged by the minute. 1p+ VAT per line. I was getting monthly bills between £300 and £500, depending on how much Unreal Tournament I was playing. 
Imagine sending gen-z kids back to dial-up days
I had ISDN back then. An amazing 128kb if you used both lines
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I just realised that there is a hdmi port on the desk at this premier inn
Have I got this right? It just uninstalls Win10 and Win11?
NVR? PoE?
Cheap cameras are cheap. Good cameras aren't.
Burn them onto CD and post it to the other person.
Those Reolink cameras actually look OK, and you can use them locally, without sending the video via China*. I bought a Reolink doorbell but haven't fitted it yet, so I can't comment on the quality, but they do seem reasonably priced. I'll probably be using Hikvision for my outdoor cameras.I rather suspected you'd know something about this.
The footage I've looked at from some of the £40 Reolinks I thought looked quite good. Which brand are you going for? I suppose one of the joys of doing it this way is you can mix and match, provided they support ONVIF which a lot seem to do.
I'd not actually given much thought yet to how I'd like the system to operate. I assumed it would be recording everything all the time with the data being wiped when the drive was full. I'll probably use the second ex data centre 14TB drives as they are such good value. However, just recording when it detects something make sense. Will you be running it in a VM? Are these Coral accelerators easy enough to pass through? I know your quite into your home assistant stuff, would there be any advantage to using it if I'm just interested in the CCTV side, like does it add stuff that Frigate can't do on its own?
