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Cloud services for controlling things inside your house are the worst (github.com)
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I recently moved away from MyQ to local control of my garage door and I've been loving it. I stumbled across the linked issue where MyQ shit the bed for roughly 3 days and it just confirms to me that the extra effort to move away from a cloud service was worth it. I'm down to just one last cloud service for something inside my house. My mind is pretty much made up that if I can't accomplish it locally, I won't do/use it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Anyone have some recommendations for a camera system without a cloud component?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything RTSP will do, but I'd recommend VLAN the shit out of it unless you are confortable having it call home every second.

I use wyze cameras with custom firmware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooo, you can do that with Wyze? That'd be the best of both worlds. I'll go search on it, but if you have any advice, I'm all ears.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using zoneminder. It might be a high bar to entry, but once set up, it's great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We use Reolink wired with PoE and recently switched from ZoneMinder + ZMNinja to Frigate + Home assistant and are very happy so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Have you checked out Frigate? It's a local service that captures RTSP streams from cameras and uses neural net image recognition to trigger events / recordings. It has good integration with Home Assistant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have Blue Iris NVR with Reolink cameras. A bit of tweaking, but it was easy to follow tutorials online and they integrate into HA nicely. Blue Iris isn't free, but I couldn't get Frigate to work and don't have the background to troubleshoot it very well. I'd say it's worth the cost, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally I've been pretty happy with Unifi Protect. Reliably records locally but accessible remotely and notifications are quick within a few seconds. Cameras can connect to HA and support RTSP if you want to link them into Frigate.