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Camera suggestions? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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