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
Look into frigate. It’s designed to work with home assistant and is incredibly reliable. It works with pretty much any camera that can publish a stream. That being said, most people recommend reo link
I found some Amcrest cameras on Craigslist, 4 being sold for $75, and that started my system.
I am looking at the Reolink Argus 3E with the reolink hub to handle the recording files. From what I understand, you can integrate the hub directly into HA and then all the cameras with their sensors become available from HA through the hub. So if, for example, you wanted to turn on the floodlight on the camera, you would tell Home Assistant, which would tell the hub, which would tell the camera.