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Camera suggestions? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Will you be recording the video? HA doesn't do that on its own, but you can install the Frigate add-on if your hardware supports it. I recommend a good HDD for recording to. I have a WD purple just for video recordings.

I'm not sure how well an HA Green would do with Frigate, although it is possible to run it on a Raspberry Pi if you add something like a Coral via USB (https://coral.ai/products/accelerator/) to handle the heavy lifting... so a Green should be fine. Don't take my word for it, though.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I am looking at the reolink battery cameras and the reolink hub would handle video recording. HA would be sending off notifications about motion detection and possibly used to live stream the video coming from the camera itself.