Has anyone gone down the route of DIY cameras for HA ? I’d like to get something to monitor the outside of my house - housing of the camera etc won’t be an issue, but I wondered if anyone has used ESPs for this purpose ? There seems to be multiple camera modules on the market, so i’m not sure what…

Not done it with esp, but this path is well trodden with rpi, and can be quite cheap using a pi zero w.

Thanks, i’ve ended up getting a couple of pi cameras to play around with… hopefully those + MotioneyeOS will do the job :slight_smile:

Have you seen the esp32 camera support added to esphome ? I really want to try this just not sure which one to get that won’t overheat.

I’ll let you know if my one overheats, but the esphome docs only refer to the m5stack board overheating.

[image] US $7.03 12% OFF|1pcs ESP32 CAM WiFi WiFi Module ESP32 serial to WiFi ESP32... Smarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com I have not managed to get it flashed yet using an FT232 adator, but i will try a CP2102 adaptor tonight.

Update: I have successfully flashed using a CP2102 adaptor and the camera is up and running, although as noted in the esphome docs, it requires HA 0.91 - I am not normally a beta user but I painlessly updated to 0.91.0b5. The device I purchased on Aliexpress (see my last post for the link) works wi…

thanks for the update. I’d love to build my own esp cam doorbell. I’m sure this isn’t too far off!

[image] My first somewhat crude but working doorbell, based on the new ESPHome camera Share your Projects! I’m loving them so far, and so cheap you can make a houseplant monitor for all your plants if you wanted grin

I followed this video for a start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36p9To2hfak and also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQoOZNdaGY&t=2s Great bell and video.

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nickrout (Nick Rout) April 4, 2019, 7:04pm 10