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What are your resource limits and threat model?

I hate X11 and C as much as any other human, but let's be real:

- If your hardware can decode video, it can probably deal with X11

- As you noted, security is easy if you never have to communicate with malicious devices. Don't "but still" me.



It's not so much a threat model, but maintainability and reliability. I want to have as few dependencies as possible, and for the code to work with minimal to no changes for the next 10 years.

Ideally, I would use something like HomeAssistant Operating System for the base, with my code running in a Docker container.


If it's about maintainability and reliability, and not so much a threat model, why does the fact that your VoIP devices are already in a separate VLAN without external access mean it's not a big deal for you?

> I want to have as few dependencies as possible, and for the code to work with minimal to no changes for the next 10 years.

Then a C program sounds like an ideal choice!


> If it's about maintainability and reliability, and not so much a threat model, why does the fact that your VoIP devices are already in a separate VLAN without external access mean it's not a big deal for you?

VLAN is what makes it not such a big deal. However, I want to offer the same solution to other people in our HOA, and I most definitely don't want to set up VLANs for each one of them.

> Then a C program sounds like an ideal choice!

Not really? No package management, for one thing.




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