Home Security Cameras - Alternative to Arlo, e.g Unifi etc

Hardware
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Hi all,

I currently have a bunch of Arlo Pro cameras which I bought before starting out with HA.

I find the Arlo’s quite limited in terms of their functionality with HA, e.g I can’t get on motion detection to switch a light on.

I’m looking at selling the Arlos and installing something else, preferably PoE which got me looking a Ubiquity UniFi cameras as I already have UniFi stuff for my network.

Has anyone experience with these cameras, can HA do simple on motion detection do X with these. If not what are good alternatives?

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I have gone another path but is it not better to use something like motion to let HA handle the motion detection. Motion detection in cameras is more often bad than good

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I’ve not explored that, any pointers as I’m fairly new to HA.

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Look at this link. Down on the page is a link to motion.


https://motion-project.github.io
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I have a couple of Amcrest cameras and have had no problems with motion detection.

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I have only foscam but still use xeoma to handle motion detection, cross line, etc. But in this case I think it is just a waste of money to buy new cameras just to handle the motion detection