#Security camera

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lone spade
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I want to purchase an outdoor security camera, not battery-powered. I could wire it from my HA, my internet router and AC plug. The camera would be placed 4 meters away from the HA and router. My HA is running on a Raspberry pi 4 with a USB stick. I'd like to record locally, or in my Google Drive account (not camera vendor cloud) the videos recorded whenever there is a person detection during the periods we are not living there. In order to limit the recording space, I could store only the videos from the last days. When we are not living there, there is no movement at all, the camera should only fire if there is a bird or something like that. What camera would you recommend for this? What HA add-on?

kind lichen
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Reolink is what I can recommend

wheat tiger
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bought a reolink rlc-820a, best choice i made. Afforable and no cloud!

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AI detection included for vehicles, persons and animals

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but dont put too many cams on that rpi4, it will screem and yell at you 😉

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HA has the Reolink integration that works great

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check website HA for a compatible list of the reolink cams

lone spade
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Thanks a lot, I have purchased the E1 Outdoor PoE. Is it a good idea to store the videos in the same USB stick where I have the HA OS installed?

wheat tiger
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i would setup a smb server and save videos in network, not using the HA usb.

lone spade
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I'd like to keep it simple and cheap, it's my vacation home and most of the year it's empty. Could I add an external SSD?

narrow lake
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Yes

The simplest way to do it would probably be to setup an FTP server on the HA Pi and a Reolink camera that supports FTP (the RLC-820a mentioned above does it, as do most but not all of their models)

Pont the FTP server at the external SSD and point the camera at the FTP server, there's a guide here:

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020081034-How-to-Set-up-FTP-for-Reolink-Products/

Although personally I'd set up Frigate (just grab a Coral TPU to handle person detection), which integrates more tightly into HomeAssistant and IMO would be a better overall solution, although with more setup required

How to Set up FTP for Reolink Products

If you are afraid that the videos stored on the Micro SD card be stolen, you can upload those recordings to the FTP. Please r...

wheat tiger
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AI Person detection, as well as vehicle detection already built-in in this camera.. so no direct need for coral

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works flawless

narrow lake
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Detection works flawlessly but off-device recording like OP wants isn’t necessarily as easy as far as I’m aware?