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Camera suggestions? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For reusing the ADT sensors that's a bit complicated depending on what was installed, when, etc. I'm going to assume it's a home alarm, if not you can probably ignore me! 😆

If all the sensors are hardwired you could maybe go with Konnected.

If they are wireless and it's older it might be a Honeywell Vista series alarm, ADT re-branded them as SafeWatch Pro as far as I am aware. Vista series alarms have 2 options that are available that I am aware of. 1 is an EnvisaLink 4 by Eyez On and the other is a DIY ESPHome based option called esphome-vistaECP. There is also Alarm Decoder, but they seem kinda dead now and all their stuff is sold out.

If it's a rebranded DSC PowerSeries the EnvisaLink 4 also works on it and the same person who made the other ESPHome project for Vista alarms has one for the DSC PowerSeries called esphome-DSCKeyBus

Aside from those I am unsure what all ADT has sold/rebranded over the years. Some stuff appears to maybe be Z-Wave, but unsure about all of it?

I am using esphome-vistaECP personally and once I got it setup it's been working flawlessly!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't see anything to indicate what it is. The sensors connect wirelessly to the panel that sits at the front door. But I see no branding on the sensors themselves unless maybe they're on the back and I need to remove them to check. The system was installed in like 2023. The panel itself has no visible branding except for the ADT logo and it is currently not connected to my Wi-Fi network but it does apparently connect to ADT through cellular over I think it's AT&T.