Hi,
I want to find camera for indoor monitoring. Mostly to ensure that my pet is ok.
What I want:
I want it to be less visible in minimalistic apartment style, so I think maybe bulb camera is a nice idea. Not ideal, but better then alternatives.
I want it to be wifi camera, so I don’t have to open ceiling to install wires.
I want it to have cycled 24/7 recording to memory card
Cost under 150 euro. The less, the better.
Available in Netherlands, or at least EU.
No need to register with app.
Working fully locally. If camera requires any kind of internet connectivity to work or setup it is a strong no go.
Good integration with Home Assistance. I have a setup based on home assistant yellow with, well, home assistant.
Ideally ability to cover around 360/90 degrees
If I understand correctly it should support ONVIF (?)
My HA dashboard available from web. I want to be able open dashboard and see streaming from camera with sound.
Optionally would be nice if I can save/store recording somewhere local and see library.
Would be nice if I can play around with CV middleware for streaming.
Ideally non-china or usa produced
Was thinking about Hombli Bulb Cam 4K
It support ONVIF, Tuya based, so I assume it can be integrated with HA, but didn’t find any articles or documentation on integration it with HA.
Also just as a show case of best-looking camera for my purpose (wouldn’t work for me because of the price, wiring and vendor lock): pradocam 360 trimless mini | prado
This one is also looking interesting, but require wiring:
This might be the show stopper even for WiFi based onvif cameras. Usally a vendor app is required for first provisioning/setup - at least for the WiFi credentials
A wired onvif camera on the other hand can be typicaly used right away without any manufacture apps
Well, the intent: avoid storing data on vendor services, or sending data through them. If it’s just setup, maybe it’s acceptable.
But generally for wifi device: they work as router, you connect to the device as you would to wifi router, setup access to local wifi, and then, when it in the local network, configure them as usual.
Most of the home appliances with wifi support work this way.
I think the last device behaving like described was tasmota about 8 years ago. Just these days I deployed onvif WiFi cameras and they used a vendor app with ether acoustic or optic deployment for the WiFi credentials (obviously only with vendor app and cloud account)
I can tell that the ~10 different cameras I did examine the last ~5 years didn’t expose any web server (tested with nmap) beside not spawning any AP for provisiong
