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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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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So far the only thing I find that I don't particularly care for is that apparently you need the reolink app to set up the cameras for the first time. I wish there was an open source way of doing it, but I can at least get their app properly through the Aurora store in order to at least configure it. And I'm guessing that I will have to enable parental controls on my router and disable the hub from being able to access the internet. They may well be telling the truth about not using my data nefariously, but if I can just stop the hub from accessing the internet entirely, except during specific times where I manually check for software updates, then they can't do anything.

Here at least, our mail is absolutely never delivered in the morning. It's always mid to late afternoon. Although perhaps a door sensor might work better anyway, because sometimes if the mail person gets here really late, it might be dark, especially during winter, with the time change.