I buy a Mi home security camera 360° 1080P but it seems that I can’t integrate it to Home Assistant.
Anyone tried this : https://github.com/telmomarques/xiaomi-360-1080p-hacks ?
Is it possible with camera, generic camera or with synology integrations ?
I’m thinking to return the Mi Home cam and buy a Yi 720P, Yi Dome, Xiaofang or a Wize Cam pan (with DrZzs tuto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiHs44i0TA).
Anyone has already integrate one of those cam ?
Save yourself a lot of trouble and heartache, and purchase an Amcrest Pan/Tilt IP3M-941B model. If you prefer to save a few dollars, get the IP2M-841 model, instead. If you want the highest quality image possible, select the IP4M-1051 model.
Wyze Cam Pan is probably the best value camera that works with Home Assistant, though to use most of the functionality (panning, notifications), you will need to use the Wyze app. You have to perform a few steps to flash the beta firmware and enable RTSP in the app settings to get it working, but it is simple.
I like using the Wyze Cam vs. Xiaofang with custom firmware because you retain most of the Wyze cam features like automatic night vision, notifications (through Wyze app), camera panning, and cloud recording.
If you don’t want to use the Wyze app and use Home Assistant only, then you lose those features except RTSP. Using additional NVR software like Motioneye can get you mobile notifications and a way to access footage remotely, but you would need an rPi4 or greater to run MotionEye with this camera.
I use the Wyze Cam Pan’s RTSP stream with Home Assistant (running on a laptop) and Motioneye for notifications (using webhooks) and browsing videos. I can get notifications using the Ariela Android app and access MotionEye videos as well. The experience isn’t seamless, but it works. The Wyze app is great, so I use the Wyze app, but it’s nice to know I won’t have a paperweight if Wyze decides to shut down or start charging a monthly fee.
If the Armcrest camera panning controls work in HA, then I would consider, but I can’t confirm if it does.
I have 1 Xiaofang and 2 Dafangs. All have custom firmware and work really well with HA
I do use motion so HA actually pulls the video feed from motion and not the cameras directly, but it would work just as well without motion in the middle
Thanks @FredTheFrog for your feedback! So with those Amcrest cam, I don’t need to install a custom firmware. Great. It seems to have a motion detection. Can it differenciate human and pets ?
Thanks @dwinnn for your full feedback! So with the custom firmware, I can’t have the notifications on HA but OK with the App for motion detection ? Does the cheaper cam, the Wyze cam (not the Wyze pan cam) have the same features ? Max 32Go SD card right?
So Wyze is different than Xiaofang and Dafang in that it is not custom firmware, but an official fork of the official firmware. You can have an RTSP stream and still use Wyze’s main cloud features (like notifications, cloud recording, local continuous recording), though new features like person detection may not be available on this fork.
You can still send notifications through HA using the RTSP firmware, but you would first need to connect the RTSP stream to an NVR software like MotionEye to process the footage (which takes up CPU power), configure a webhook, have your Home Assistant instance be accessible on the internet (HA Cloud makes this very easy), and configure HA to send the notification to your HA mobile app. It requires many steps and hasn’t been 100% reliable for me.
If you are using a Raspberry Pi 3 and want to do local motion detection+notifications on HA, it will not be able to handle video processing using MotionEye. You can still view live footage through the camera in Home Assistant, but you should leave the processing+notification part to the Wyze app.
I seriously doubt the Amcrest camera will differentiate between pets and humans. However, it should have definable zones of motion, where you mark the area for motion detection. Avoid the floor and a foot or two above the floor, and you should only detect humans.
Forgot to answer your other questions. The regular Wyze Cam v2 has the same features as Wyze Cam Pan, except motor controls and automated camera panning . The panning feature isn’t that good so I would consider the regular Wyze Cam if price is a concern. The Wyze Cam v2 is good if you want to install the camera in the corner of a wall, or have the camera angled down. The Wyze Cam Pan can aim the lens up and down, but the range is limited.
Unofficially, you could use a card bigger than 32gb by formatting the card as FAT32 on your PC, then inserting into the camera. A few people have done it here, but requires more steps.
You can get motion running in a docker container that way it does not matter what version of ha you’re running.
I personally run Ha and motion in containers