The Orb

Theme: Palantír Slate · scrying = live video, honestly labelled. A palantír could mislead its user; a camera feed can too — check the angle, check the clock.
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HOUSEHOLD CONSENT ONLY. These slots exist for cameras pointed at your own household's own spaces, with the knowledge of the people in them. Feeds are local-network only — nothing on this page sends video anywhere, and the fleet setup below keeps every feed on the home LAN. No fake feeds: an unconfigured slot shows an empty state, never a picture pretending to be live.

SLOT 1 — THIS DEVICE'S OWN CAMERA

State: idle — not started
The working slice of this prototype: this device's own camera, started only by the button below. The preview stays in this tab.

SLOT 2 — FRONT DOOR (spare phone)

State: EMPTY — no device configured
No feed. This card is a labeled empty state, not a camera.
Setup recipe — front door spare phone
  1. Take a charged spare phone; factory-reset it and sign in with a household-only account.
  2. Install an open-source IP-camera app (pattern: an app that serves an MJPEG/RTSP stream on the LAN — e.g. the open-source “IP Webcam”-class apps; verify the exact app and its license before installing).
  3. Join the home Wi-Fi, fix the phone's LAN address in the router (DHCP reservation), mount it covering the door, power it from a wall adapter.
  4. In the app: set a stream password, disable any cloud/remote-view feature — local-network only.
  5. Point this dashboard slot at http://<phone-LAN-address>:<port>/ in the full build.

SLOT 3 — YARD / DRIVEWAY (spare phone)

State: EMPTY — no device configured
No feed. Outdoor slot: weather shade + power are the real problems, not the app.
Setup recipe — yard spare phone
  1. Spare phone in a shaded, rain-sheltered mount (direct Florida sun overheats phones; shade is a requirement, not a nicety).
  2. Same open-source IP-camera app pattern as Slot 2; local-network only, cloud features off, stream password set.
  3. Reserve its LAN address in the router; label the phone and its charger with the slot name.
  4. Check the view at night once — IR-less phone cameras go nearly blind after dark; print that limit on the slot rather than discovering it later.

SLOT 4 — FAMILY ROOM (spare phone)

State: EMPTY — no device configured
No feed. Indoor family spaces are consent-first: everyone in the household knows the camera, where it points, and how to switch it off.
Setup recipe — family room spare phone
  1. Household conversation first: who is in frame, when it runs, who can view. Agree it before mounting anything.
  2. Spare phone, open-source IP-camera app, local-network only, cloud off, stream password set, LAN address reserved.
  3. Physical off-switch within reach (unplug or a switched outlet) — a camera that cannot be turned off by the people it watches does not get installed.

SLOT 5 — WORKSHOP / GARAGE (spare phone)

State: EMPTY — no device configured
No feed. Useful for “did I leave the door open / the iron on” checks — a state check, not surveillance of people.
Setup recipe — workshop spare phone
  1. Mount covering the door and bench, not faces at a work chair.
  2. Same open-source IP-camera app pattern; local-network only; stream password set; LAN address reserved.
  3. Dust and heat shorten phone life here — expect the slot to be a consumable, and keep the empty-state card ready for when it dies.

SLOT 6 — UNASSIGNED

State: EMPTY — spare slot
Reserved for the next spare phone the household retires. An honest grid has an empty chair.
Setup recipe — generic

Repeat any slot recipe above: household-only account → open-source IP-camera app → LAN only, cloud off → password → reserved address → label the hardware with its slot name.