Automation with motion detection from cameras

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

Thank you

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.