Automation with motion detection from cameras

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Is it possible to accomplish this? If so, is there any specific brand that supports it or is it mostly universal?

Thank you

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Many IP cameras have in-built motion detection these days. Just have a look at what you can get from your usual seller. I have HikVision which have it. Dahua also do, like I say, most do.

When you add these cameras to your HA you should be able to get binary_sensors for each motion detection entity (from each camera).

Here’s an example of one of my HikVision cameras using this Integration.

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Thanks a ton Dave,

Is there a way to verify a camera I want to purchase has the correct logging string you mentioned; without having it in hand? I’m looking at ubiquiti but I don’t see there the integration documentation for protect mentions anything regarding the motion detection.

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Basically check through here at the various camera brands.

I’m not sure what can be gathered from the UniFi cameras but a search on this forum should hopefully give you some answers.

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The MotionEye addon has motion detection and it supports many different types and brands of cameras :wink:

https://community.home-assistant.io/search?context=topic&context_id=423109&q=motioneye%20motion%20detection%20&skip_context=true

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Definitely an option if @ISO384201 has hardware that can handle it. eg: a Raspberry Pi cannot handle more than a couple of cameras for MotionEye (at least not high resolution ones).

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That is true…even a virtual machine has issues, especially when more then 2 cameras are used

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I plan on running this in a virtual environment on a pretty beefy rig; and i’ll have about 12 total cameras. Sound doable?

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Ah. Appears this is my answer:

Sensors - Sensors include “Is Dark”, “Motion Detected”, “Detected Object” (if the camera supports smart detections), and “Doorbell Chime” (if the camera has a chime). Several diagnostics sensors are added including sensors on uptime, network connection stats, and storage stats. Doorbells will also have a “Voltage” sensor for troubleshooting electrical issues.
The Detected Object sensor will have the values of “none”, “person”, or “vehicle” based on object UniFi Protect detected.
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Can’t really help you here…
I used to run on HyperV (on W10) on a used to be juicy laptop (HP mobile workstation)
I had to reduce the resolution of the 2 camera’s, otherwise i would have a 15-30 second delay on the camera’s if i ran it on 4K

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the only way to do this that I found with my ekaza camera was activate notification sensor in mobile application and give permission to tuya smart, thens I made an automation to get the value of this sensor , and If a specific string exists, for example: “movement was detected”, I can do anything with this.