#Video Doorbells?

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tired galleon
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Hey all, the Mrs has tasked me with finding a video doorbell...I kinda wanna keep it local.. I think I've narrowed it down to eufy/aqara/reolink.. but I'm really new to the smart home stuff and was just wondering if anyone had opinions?

I've watched a few videos from some smart home people on youtube, but have yet to find a direct comparison video and most of them seem more like marketing than straight reviews.. since HA is something I would probably like to wrap into this eventually, (reolink and frigate might become a overall house camera system for us, and aqaras sensor suite looks really tempting too, and in the distant future maybe their door locks?), so I'm really torn, eufy's the outlier there.. I know less about them than the other two.
..Like I said, just looking for honest opinions, pitfalls and stuff that wont show up in the marketing too, google only telling me so much, reddit seems to favour reolink..
*All gotta be battery for now, maybe there'll be wiring later, the Aqara G4 and the Reolink 2k battery are the main two I've kinda come to be looking at now, eufy basically cuz of costco 😛

gentle wigeon
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Do you have an NVR requirement? - e.g. do you want to go back in time and be able to view history? If so, how much?

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I am also looking at putting Frigate in my system, but i haven't bitten the bullet yet there.

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So i am not here to help, but just throw more at you to contemplate

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The thing with that one -- it can be entirely local and powered over ethernet - as long as you have a POE switch.

lucid basalt
gentle wigeon
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oh this isn't the water cooler. 😄

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oops

lucid basalt
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unifi is probably the easiest to get running without handing your information over to random chinese companies at random as well; or using a bunch of stuff you have to setup yourself to do a workaround for remote stream access/2way calling

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easiest without paying monthly that is; because ring or etc would obvioiusly be easier..

gentle wigeon
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Well the thing with unifi that people don't realize, you can get in pretty deep with their stuff. They have a TON of stuff for home networking that levels your home up to like corporate standards.

lucid basalt
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this is true, yes.. and their networking stuff is fairly cheap these day as well.. relatively speaking.

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ahhh in retrospect... 🙃

gentle wigeon
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😄 once you get started, it's just a matter of adding things here and there. I could easily spend thousands $$$$ with them though

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for @tired galleon though - you need a gateway, the doorbell, and a POE switch. Or it can be powered by your doorbell mains, but then you have to use wifi. Which i don't personally like sending OTA as it could be intercepted. Not sure if all that is needed though if they are going with Frigate

lucid basalt
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yeah if not going full all-in with frigate.. Unifi is basically the only real choice

tired galleon
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For some further info; I'm a wireless engineer, and have a pretty fleshed out network for the house, currently running a crappy chinese nvr with 8 security cameras running on cat5e, gonna liiiiiikely slowly replace'em with reolink, unifi vaguly tempted me; was considering a DM SE + all that, but honestly... I have an R770 so the u7pro or what have you would be a major downgrade, and a fairly beefy mikrotik with a decent ruckus switch under it for the crazy power requirements of the r770..
If I were starting out and had the cash unifi would be 'kinda worth', but most of it's prosumer stuff is a downgrade on my enterprise network gear ... ^^;

lucid basalt
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reolinks are...

they "work" but they're semi misbehaving with frigate and etc

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like; you have to use some nonstandard way to grab their streams as opposed to just using ONVIF

tired galleon
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the non-camera lines in the house are all cat6a

lucid basalt
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throw crappy chinese cameras on a VLAn and use frigate to get their feeds and etc.. cheaper than reolink by a lot. 🤷‍♂️

tired galleon
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sadly they are tied to their nvr only don't don't rstp/onvif ;\

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oh you mean like dahua or so?

lucid basalt
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I say those because I have used their brand recently a lot and just ordered another set of those for outdoor use for someone I do work for... they work over ONVIF besides some DHCP stuff you have to screw with to make the cameras behave themselves. (and they are hackable-ish.. root password is known and telnet is open)

tired galleon
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how's the night vision on that cam?

lucid basalt
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that one specifically I don't know (yet) but I have some shots from their indoor version that uses the same board/sensor

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sec.

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this is from the 4MP version

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same caveat with any NV camera I'd say.. if you have anything reflective near the camera's IR emitters its gonna murder itself when it flips them on.

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like leaves on trees that weren't there when you setup cameras..

tired galleon
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yeah I can relate;

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lucid basalt
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heres the indoor version.

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though I will say there is one caveat I've noticed with them.. you can't rotate the feed on the camera

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so that'd have to be offloaded to frigate or nvr side

tired galleon
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rotate the feed? like flip it?

lucid basalt
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yeah; like if you wanted a portrait camera or such

tired galleon
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I get you

lucid basalt
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they also have human detection on them by default but I have that turned off because.. that's what frigate is for

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sadly their cheapo PTZ doesn't play nicely with frigate. 💔

tired galleon
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rip

lucid basalt
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it can be moved; but it can't be automatically moved for tracking and etc because of course it doesn't implement the damn ONVIF spec for that..

tired galleon
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I was tempted by unifi's stuff for the cameras, ngl but it's so damn pricy lol

lucid basalt
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yeah; therein lies the issue with it. 🤣

tired galleon
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and, there's absolutely no way to get power to my doors

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so any door thingy gonna have to be battery

lucid basalt
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power? you mean poe?

tired galleon
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poe or dc/ac

lucid basalt
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thats the camera I installed at a house for someone

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with hass running and etc

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I just havent gotten around to fucking with it to get two way audio yet because its slightly annoying. 🙃

tired galleon
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it's a old 1960s uk 2 story house, with some real quirks

lucid basalt
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that one runs off standard 24VAC

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so you'd just have to rewire at the chime box or w/e

tired galleon
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atm in order to get power to the door I'd either have to drill through pvc, or concrete

lucid basalt
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though technically the amcrest AD410 is just a rebranded dahua

lucid basalt
tired galleon
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nopers

lucid basalt
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oof.

tired galleon
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if you check back on that picture briefly; note the door has no step it literally just opens onto the floor, the wall to oneside is old concrete block (not modern breeze block, but the thing that kills drill bits for lols), and on the right is literally just pvc

lucid basalt
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could always do a camera mounted up somewhere nearby and just mount a bluetooth low power button or something outside? 🤣

tired galleon
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hahaha

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honestly I'd considered it

lucid basalt
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that or.. bluetooth button on door

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through-door hole camera

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also possible.

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wires would be inside then.

tired galleon
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got this guy (doors on the right below)

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problem is none of these cameras'll do any kinda ai alerting or anything

lucid basalt
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use frigate then. 😉

tired galleon
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can't get their feeds into frigate

lucid basalt
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you probably can

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its just probably a pain in the fucking ass.

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for some annoying cameras I used to use scrypted to do autodetection and finding/adding

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because it has good automatic stuff in it

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then ported them through to frigate

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(because no, I am not fucking paying you yearly for cameras+hardware that I am hosting)

tired galleon
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haha

lucid basalt
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or use scrypted to get the urls then read its debug output and copy stuff to frigate/go2rtc

tired galleon
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So, the vendors zosi, and they have some kind of networking to them, but it's all on it's own subnet off the nvr

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my router catches glimpses of them sometimes so they broadcast something, but their streams don't seem readable by anything past the nvr

lucid basalt
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ah./.

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that stuff?

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looks like its some abomination that also uses h265 as well..

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looking at some reddit stuff

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it seems to suggest that it requires you to not use the direct connection

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so it can't subnet them

tired galleon
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If I can get these into frigate or something similar I probably wont bother replacing'em

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hmmm

lucid basalt
tired galleon
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I have a crappy 100/10 poe cisco switch laying around could try that

lucid basalt
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as bad as some of the piece of shit cameras I used at the guys house.

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some.. LaView cameras

tired galleon
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hehe..

lucid basalt
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no reset button.

if theres a hardware reset needed you need to use their special tool and send them some xml file to get another xml file back to reset

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give me. a fucking reset button. you cunts.

tired galleon
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this was my first 'smart home' thing purchase, maaan regrets 😛

lucid basalt
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keview was also bad with not having a reset button.

tired galleon
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LOL Yeah, same with this, resets only via contact with them

lucid basalt
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but I did get in through the UART and find the /etc/network stuff and reset it. 😛

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This is tempting. /s

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makes me think

tired galleon
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LMAO

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jesus how many LEDs does it need xD

lucid basalt
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just some of those ali cameras look like a fucking abomination unto the lord and I love it. 🤣

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now I want to find a camera tahts just full on..

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doc-ock-tentacles with like 4 separate cameras you can articulate

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i just need to go say that on social media and some company will make it, probably.

tired galleon
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"fully articular, orientable cameras with 360 degree range"

lucid basalt
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aliexpress search is ass, i'd just do site:aliexpress searches on google.. 😛

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It'd be nice if this was more useful.
https://openipc.org/

But they insist on only listing the goddamned chipsets they support instead of ever listing a god damned camera that has the chipset inside of it..

tired galleon
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I couldn't tell you what chipsets in my cameras

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right....sleepy time, thank you for the chat, lots of think about, still not sure on the doorbell though lol

lucid basalt
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yeah you have a.. rough situation

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you can't tell unless you rip it open.. and then pull off a heatsink usually 😛

gentle wigeon
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So how're the cameras you have currently powered? Are they POE?

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@tired galleon

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Also sorry - i have notifications turned off for HA Discord 🤣 otherwise i wouldn't sleep

tired galleon
gentle wigeon
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Got it. So that's why you're looking at potentially replacing the hardware. If the wiring is already there then I think you have the hardest part done already.

tired galleon
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which was one of the things that led me to looking into their doorbell (along with aqara)...

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Wi-Fi in my house is pretty well regulated despite being filled with devices (...wifi engineer + concrete attenuation = lots of isolation to help keep everything pretty clean), tri band wi-fi is a dream 😄

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(*Additionally, static stuff where I can is Ethernet, TVs/consoles/PCs/Cameras aren't making any of that wi-fi noise, and cameras and sensors can be pretty messy wi-fi wise)

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I look after a pretty large estate.. and I tell you, motion sensors and cameras, and fire alarms make some of UNII-2C/3 almost completely unusable..

gentle wigeon
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So if you use Frigate, do you need all the unifi hardware or just the cameras?

tired galleon
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for unifi I'd need the dream machine I think to make the most of it, but for like dahua/reolink/etc you can just slap it straight into frigate without any need for any nvr

gentle wigeon
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Oic

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And for a fraction of the cost

tired galleon
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(*This is the impression I've been given so far)

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Yeah precisely, it's like literally £300 for the DM then +£200 PER camera xD

gentle wigeon
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Okay so for the video doorbell then, do those other brands look good? Frankly, I haven't looked very far past unify

tired galleon
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If the DM was also my gateway.. probably worth it..

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quality of device seems good, but as I learnt with my cameras, it's actually 99% software really

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new reolink seems to integrate with frigate ok, especially if POE.. wireless seems flakey..

gentle wigeon
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According to their docs, reolink has issues. Has that changed in the new hardware?

tired galleon
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og reolink - especially wireless, was apparently terrrrrrrrible with frigate

gentle wigeon
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I wouldn't ever run cameras on wireless. Unless there's some sort of geographical issue where you wanted to put the camera outside in the middle of a forest

tired galleon
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I tend to agree

wheat notch
gentle wigeon
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So which Reolink cameras are you looking at @tired galleon - you got me wanting to change up my plan.

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I have the Reolink Duo 3 POE 16MP in my amazon cart right now

tired galleon
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apparently a good one!

tired galleon
gentle wigeon
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I'll take a look

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Those are so much cheaper than Unifi. Wow

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If Frigate can deliver with those, that's a huge win for my pocket book

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I'll take the plunge next paycheck.

tired galleon
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I'd buy one and experiment rather than go all in 😄

gentle wigeon
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Gonna go in with 2 of those and a doorbell. Does that reolink harddrive system connect to frigate?

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i mean. i had money set aside for Unifi. You know how much all that would cost

tired galleon
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the hub thingy?

gentle wigeon
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yeah that thingy

tired galleon
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oh that's a fullblown nvr

gentle wigeon
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can i put frigate on that

tired galleon
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I doubt it

gentle wigeon
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yeah my thoughts too.

tired galleon
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based on what I've seen you might wanna stay away from their nvrs actually

gentle wigeon
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Ok

tired galleon
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they're an ok product, but they basically work the same way as my cheap chinese cameras

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if you use the nvr, no frigate, no rstp, no onvif etc

gentle wigeon
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Got it. I guess i don't know how to setup frigate then

tired galleon
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whatcha runnin HA on?

gentle wigeon
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ODROID N2+

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SBC

tired galleon
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HA can actually host frigate (it's not super recommended)

gentle wigeon
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i think i would rather host frigate in a docker container

tired galleon
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Yeah that's the 'proper way'

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it communicates with HA over MQTT

gentle wigeon
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i have a homelab setup on a beefy desktop that runs 24/7

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how resource intesive is frigate

tired galleon
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quite, if you use the ai detection stuff, though you can get a coral ai usb stick, or m.2 thing to really take the strain off it

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*it can also use GPUs but I haven't worked any of this out

gentle wigeon
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i have 2 SLI GTX 1080s on it

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kinda old but it works for my media server

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my worry is it's already doing transcoding. May not want it doing double work

tired galleon
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better than mine with it's lil dinky 2060

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though I been struggling to get proxmox to passthrough for jellyfin ¬.¬

gentle wigeon
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you on a linux box or windows

tired galleon
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linux

gentle wigeon
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what're you passing through? USB devices?

tired galleon
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usb passthroughs actually worked, my linux / proxmox box is honestly a mess I'm a real rookie with it

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GPU though...

gentle wigeon
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oic

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i run emby

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very similar

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sec

tired galleon
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I can't get the nvidia drivers to install, nor pass stuff through

gentle wigeon
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if you run it in docker compose, that's my docker compose config passing my nvidia devices into my container.

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biggest thing is doing the nvidia-docker config

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it's a huge pain and horribly documented on their site

tired galleon
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hmm jellyfin's not docker.... but this looks promising

gentle wigeon
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i have a jellyfin config in there for docker, not using device passthrough or anything. But you can copy the emby one if you want and use that. I am pretty sure they will both configure similarly

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I personally don't use proxmox.

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But might still be helpful if proxmox is in a container and you spin up jellyfin with proxmox

tired galleon
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it is effectively

gentle wigeon
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yeah lmk if that works. it'd be good to know if that applies generally 😄

tired galleon
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I will at one point become an okay linux user I swear

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deffo looking this up tomorrow though

gentle wigeon
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oh you are in the UK. go to bed and wake up with fresh eyes. If you wanna DM me you can. I am a software dev. I work in linux every day and docker is my hobby 😄

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Happy to help you if you want

tired galleon
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I appreciate you good sir, I'll have a bash at it first in the day tomorrow then probably inevitably come crawling for help later lmao

gentle wigeon
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😄 i get it. Bash

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i prefer zsh but that's me

tired galleon
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I'd do better but my brain constantly crons all cli knowledge these days ;P

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have a nice night when ya get there mate

gentle wigeon
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😉

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8:00 PM here. chat later

gentle wigeon
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The reolink HA integration doesn't look horrible tbh. Based on a few videos I'm seeing. It could get me by while I get some hardware to run Frigate on.

tired galleon
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Yea for poe cams it seems to be pretty great

restive rock
gentle wigeon
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All right. Well I just picked up 2 of the reolink duo 3 cameras and a doorbell

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I'll install them when I move in later next month. I'll report back!

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Amazon actually told me that the doorbell was an item that was frequently returned. I have a Google nest doorbell still in the box. Just in case. But I would rather it be Poe since I have cable run to that spot

tired galleon
gentle wigeon
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I don't know. I think people get it not realizing you have to have the NVR. It's also kinda confusing on their doorbells. The white and black versions have different aspect ratios and viewing angles

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The white one has the same viewing angle vertically that the black one has horizontally. They say that the white one is more for narrow entryways or places where you don't need the wide angle horizontally. The black one is more for that. But i can't find where the black one has package detection, but the white one does? but i thought that was driven by software. So i don't know

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They were all on sale. I have watched literally every review on youtube and instruction for how to set them up with the NVR. I've watched a ton of Frigate videos too, and one about Viseron. I went ahead and added the Reolink NVR to my order too since i don't have hardware for that yet. I will see how it all works.

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This guy did the best video with the most in depth setup for his automations with the doorbell in home assistant. And frankly this is what made me purchase it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZRyJK3UpFI

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gentle wigeon
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Can the ODROID N2+ handle live camera streams from the Reolink NVR through HA? Anyone know here? Or should i be looking at upgrading my hardware?

lucid basalt
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maybe?

thats a dual core Mali-G52 GPU.. unsure if frigate has any supported hardware accelerated stuff on that.

tired galleon
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if the gpu is the concern would a coral ai usb thingy cover the gap for him and let him continue on the odroid?

lucid basalt
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coral is only for the ML part of detecting objects and etc.

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its possible he won't need any ffmpeg usage yes.. but if he doesnt have at least some sort of cpu that can handle some accel it may be rough

gentle wigeon
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Literally just need to stream on demand. Not running it all the time or anything. Like if I wanna view the live stream on HA through the reolink integration, how laggy is it?

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Like if someone rings the doorbell. I'm just trying to figure out if I need to keep the reolink app or if I can run it all on HA

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Ideally I'd love the latter

lucid basalt
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just a single stream? should.. maybe be doable?

though that thing is.. really anemic

frail sedge
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I was running on N2 (not N2+) for a while, and had no problem streaming from an NVR

gentle wigeon
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Arriving next week! Woot

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I did go ahead and pick up an NVR

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I'll mess with Frigate later. Wife was getting impatient

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I was about to lose my budget. 🤣

silver solstice
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@gentle wigeon Im running the Odroid N2+ and also 16 Reolink cameras including the WiFi doorbell.... it streams fine mate, if you need anything specific tested let me know and Ill try and accommodate you.

lucid basalt
gentle wigeon
lucid basalt
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I pulled the trigger myself on a new NAS build/board with one of the 14th gen mobile intel cpus.. so I should have my transcoding needs handled so maybe I'll add cameras at home now too.. 🤔

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stepped to from a way-too-stupid-old-ebay-xeons-dual-socket board from years ago.. will likely cut the power consumption considerably.

brazen shoal
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This is quite a long thread now 😄 any recommendation for a PoE Video doorbell with two way audio with my smartphone, everything local

gentle wigeon
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I will respond in about a week and a half with my thoughts on the reolink one

gentle wigeon
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They've arrived. I should have these installed this next week once we close on our house. It's like the first thing I'm installing after Internet turns on

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lucid basalt
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😛

tired galleon
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exited to see how that does 😄

empty edge
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i'm interested in buying a Reolink doorbell (#1 by HomeAssistant community) or aosu (#1 on amazon by rating). i'm not sure what i could do with HomeAssitant/Frigate that i couldn't do otherwise. I guess store video on network instead (via RTSP) of in a sdcard. I'm sure there are other differences, but I don't know what I'd be missing. I suppose I just want to know if someone is at the door, and have speedy sensing (reasonably fast movement detection) and clips/recording that I can view anywhere with internet access. Any thoughts on key features for reolink/HA?

I worry about the maintainability of using Home Assistant for a doorbell. I guess reolink works via their app even if HomeAssitant is down? I realize it'd be pretty reliable, but Frigate and the HA automation its just one more thing to maintain and update.

does Frigate or any solution require dedicated hardware for video processing? Their page looked extensive for hardware requirements.

muted egret
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I'd get a SFF machine and then a Google Coral for video processing.

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Im currently messing with Frigate set up in a Docker container on Proxmox and then off loading all video processing to a Jetson Orin Nano.

muted egret
topaz viper
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Does reolink work reliably with frigate? Thinking of trying it for ai facial detection. Tried blue iris but it was glitch as hell and a pain to set up. Need a book for that program..

lucid basalt
topaz viper
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Paid sub like what?

gentle wigeon
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I am personally going to try Scrypted

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i have been looking at Frigate but i don't have hardware to run it on currently

stiff niche
stiff niche
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I don’t think you HAVE to run object detection if that’s what’s holding you back

gentle wigeon
stiff niche
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if you’re talking about HomeKit then no

gentle wigeon
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oic. I have my reolink NVR still

stiff niche
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Ah yeah. It’s only the NVR part

gentle wigeon
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hooking it all up tomorrow

stiff niche
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(which is awesome, but not a fan of the subscription)

gentle wigeon
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Yeah like the whole point of going this route is you don't want a sub

stiff niche
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after 4 cameras you have to add licenses for each camera aswell

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extra $10/year each

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I have frigate working well enough in Home Assistant now so I don’t really miss it with my Reolink doorbell

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gentle wigeon
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Is that the bubble card

stiff niche
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Bubble pop up with frigate card and some other inside yeah

gentle wigeon
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noice. I have that setup already on mine. Just have to wire it up when i install hardware tomorrow.

stiff niche
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Bubble card made my popups so much better haha. Browser mod was a pain

gentle wigeon
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I was just going to use the webRTC or camera view to show the camera

stiff niche
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now everything has a nice looking pop up. Really makes my app feel like a professionally installed system now

stiff niche
gentle wigeon
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Oh nice. Alright! Learning stuff

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😄

gentle wigeon
stiff niche
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Are you using Scrypted to proxy to HomeKit?

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Regular Scrypted is only to proxy to HKSV I think. You need the NVR addon to actually record locally

gentle wigeon
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Google Home in my house

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THere's a Google Home platform integration i have already installed.

lucid basalt
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you get to keep the models after the subs up and its just allowing for 12x training per year.. I've only used it once and will probably do a few more training soon after seeing some model issues that are probably because of apparently fabric-rolls-look-like-people?

empty edge
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so what's the end result or major features look like for you guys.... tagging of clips ("A package was left at the front door"), 24/7 video recording, low FPs... Is that accurate? anything else? i'm trying to figure out if the juice is worth the squeeze here to get this all set up compared to a more basic video doobell.

gentle wigeon
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Well so far the reolink doorbell network performance is GREAT. I haven't figured out the full setup yet with home assistant. I need to figure out my automations with different motion types. And what kind of notification to trigger.

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HA is near instant viewing the clear footage (high res). Even the reolink app is like 1 second once you tap the notification.

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The official reolink integration:

It upgraded my camera and NVR firmware from HA! That was probably the most impressive part to me.

gentle wigeon
# gentle wigeon Well so far the reolink doorbell network performance is GREAT. I haven't figured...

Motion zones setup with the reolink NVR takes some work but it was fairly easy. The phone app has gotten a lot better than the YouTube videos I watched about it from a while ago.

I did end up getting a Beelink mini PC and I ordered a coral USB for it and I'll setup Frigate + HA on that box. Moving away from my odroid N2+ so if anyone has any suggestions for what I could use that for then I'm open to ideas.

tired galleon
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Keep the NAS + Media platform of your choice on it and migrate the rest of your services to the Beelink?

gentle wigeon
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Might do a pihole with it.

tired galleon
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Good point! If it has 2 nics you can get fancy with it too.. I use my router for that

lucid basalt
topaz viper
gentle wigeon
lucid basalt
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more modern intel = better if there's even a slight possibiltiy of needing transcoding/etc.

topaz viper
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what ai integration do you use for frigate?

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never used it before

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llm in general actually. pretty dumb about it

topaz viper
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Is there some kind of tutorial for reolink and frigate?

wispy scroll
lucid basalt
gentle wigeon
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So far the doorbell stream is flawless

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I haven't figured out the visitor button yet

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Person motion automation

alias: "Person - Front Door detected "
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.reolink_video_doorbell_poe_w_person
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: script.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: script.front_door_person_notification
mode: single

Associated script

alias: Front Door - Person Notification
sequence:
  - action: notify.mobile_app_quin_s_pixel_9_pro_xl
    data:
      message: Person detected at front door
      title: Front door - Person Notification
      data:
        notification_icon: mdi:motion-sensor
        car_ui: true
        channel: Person - Front Door
        color: cyan
        tag: motion-person-front-door
        clickAction: /dashboard-apartment/0#room-front-porch
        url: /dashboard-apartment/0#room-front-porch
        image: /api/camera_proxy/camera.reolink_video_doorbell_poe_w_snapshots_fluent
        actions:
          - action: URI
            title: Show Me
            uri: /dashboard-apartment/0#room-front-porch
description: ""
icon: mdi:motion-sensor
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That works great. Opens up the live stream instead of the snapshot. Which is fine. I've tagged it though so it gets overwritten when another one comes in. Better than the reolink stock notification IMHO

tired galleon
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Is the NVR integral to this working btw?

gentle wigeon
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I'm not 100% sure but I know that reolink cams can function without an NVR. They have the SD card in them. And I think they can do on-device detection of that stuff. I'm not sure where the detection is coming from though in my setup. The NVR or the camera.

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I have an almost identical script and automation for package detection

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The visitor button and talking to someone may he more suited to he used with scrypted in my setup. And through my Google pixel and Google home hubs. So I'll experiment with that. We are still unpacking our house but I get like 30 minutes at night to play before I have to go to bed and wake up for work. So working with what I have time wise.

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I can't test that yet

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The stream is nearly instant in HA though. I can't express how impressed I am with it. I think the lag is a few seconds behind but that's expected I think. The snapshot is almost always accurate

lucid basalt
topaz viper
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The ai is on the camera itself. Usually the firmware is behind for the nvr when they introduce new ai features

lucid basalt
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its always behind because its not like they have to update old stuff.

gentle wigeon
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I mean that's normal. Software typically gets ahead of hardware

topaz viper
lucid basalt
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like, if you don't have any other serious loads and not too many cameras its probably fine since modern hardware can handle it fiarly well and all that

topaz viper
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6 cameras

lucid basalt
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12th gen intel.. yeah that should probably be fine.

gentle wigeon
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That's what I have and just tried it. It runs fine. I haven't enabled detection on it but it worked. I need to figure out how to remap my USB drive for recordings so it doesn't gobble up my space on my main drive.

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The reolink NVR has been okay. Wife likes how fast it is compared to our previous experience with Arlo cameras. But she liked the Frigate UI better scrolling through recording history

lucid basalt
gentle wigeon
lucid basalt
topaz viper
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So i was wondering. I have the reolink nvr. Is it best to just keep 24/7 recordings on that and use frigate for notifications? It's mostly facial recognition I want from frigate in the notifications. I'm already thinking I'm going the beeline and coral route for that.

ornate skiff
warm turret
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My ring chime pro has been great with HA. We've owned it for around 4 years now and its worked so good.

lucid basalt
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you'll need to use something tied to its mqtt notifications to do the recognition and pass it back through to HA

lucid basalt
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Was hoping to find like a.. combo spotlight/ir illuminator but found nothing sadly 😄