homeassistant

14580 readers

1 users here now

Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Camera suggestions? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I currently have an ADT system and am looking at ditching it for a HA green with zigbee adapter and doing motion sensors, door/window sensors, smoke alarms, etc over zigbee in HA. The roommate would like cameras and i would like something that doesnt require an account on a company servers that could go bankrupt or phone home. Any suggestions?

Edit: While I doubt it, would it be possible to continue using the ADT sensors with HA instead of having to replace them all? I am assuming they are proprietary garbage and won't work, but being proved wrong would not be a bad thing.

edit 2: my idea so far

HA Green (currently running on a Pi 4 just to get a feel for HAOS)
Reolink home hub (for managing battery wireless cams and storing video recordings
reolink Argus 3E cameras and possibly the doorbell (they detect motion, stream video, and have a floodlight which may get exposed to HA as entities under each cam device)
HA ZBT-1 (for zigbee/matter devices)
zigbee door/window contact sensors

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm looking at those now.

A guy I trust uses blink cameras, but apparently they have some sort of local storage module that might allow the video to be stored locally instead of requiring cloud crap. I'm doing some preliminary research now to see what I can find out about it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9HVYZR4

Edit: Oh, apparently you do require an Amazon account. I did not realize Blink was owned by Amazon. So reolink might still be the best choice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can put SD cards into reolonks and store it on them aswell.

They host their own little local webui and offer can be fully integrated into HA

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Looks like Blink is owned by Amazon, so you would require an Amazon account, which is, for me at least, a non-starter. I saw a video and he's like you can access the sync device without forwarding ports and I'm like how the hell is that working but if you have to have an Amazon account that would totally explain it