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Doorbell Camera / NVR (post Unifi) (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 3 weeks ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all, my Unifi Doorbell just died after only 4 years of service. I've been pretty disheartened with them lately, other products haven't lived up to the company's promise.

So I'm not looking to replace my networking stack yet, but I am looking for a doorbell camera. I only have the Unifi machine, but I also have an extensive docker/kubernetes stack, and mostly I want to use it with Home Assistant.

Any recommendations? Open to software, hardware, you name it. I have a few other Unifi cameras too, if they could be brought into the fold while I slowly migrate, I'd be interested. Thanks!

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[–] FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I bought a Ubiquity router once because a friend was raving about it. It crapped out on me after maybe 6 months? Will never buy their hardware again.

I'm using a Reolink doorbell camera and am happy with it so far. Had it for about two years.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How do you use Reolink? I've heard other people mention it, meaning do you need an NVR, or HomeAssistant, does it work in Unifi, curious how you use it

[–] FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You don't need an NVR. The camera supports a microSD card to store footage. It also supports FTP upload.

HomeAssistant isn't required. It is supported and I do have it configured.

I have next to no recollection of how UniFi works so I can't speak to that. Mine is connected to a 2.4GHz WiFi network. IIRC that's all it supports. Might be different with newer models.

It also supports HTTP(S)/RTMP/RTSP/ONVIF streaming. Though I tend to just use the app (and I'm particular about installing apps) as I find it quite usable.

[–] hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have a reolink doorbell, running local-only. It records to my Synology nas, and is integrated with home assistant for ring notifications. But it took quite a bit of work to get it set up in home assistant, and I'm not quite happy with it yet... Need to tweak some more.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 3 weeks ago

Try LazyNVR for reolink cameras, it's very lightweight and a different take than frigate https://codeberg.org/LazyNVR/lazynvr-sources

[–] jenings@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you use now? After bouncing from really disappointing uotine with linksys, netgear and some other Chinese router I’ve been extremely satisfied with UniFi stuff. Best uptime by a large margin and I bought used off eBay

[–] FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

OpenBSD on an old office PC I picked up from University surplus.