Onvif camera (recommendation, motion detect)

Hardware
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Hi there!

I have been using Home Assistant for quite a while and I have both relative expensive cameras (from Dahua and Hikvision) and extremely cheap cameras.
All of them are Onvif compatible cameras, but the thing is that Dahua / Hikvision pay for a certain ONVIF profile, so that it can register motion detect in a NVR, and the cheap chinese cameras do not…

BUT…

And this is the part I want to share with you, is that Hiseeu cameras appear to have their own motion detect, that is recognised by home assistant as an entity “binary_sensor.mymotiondetectorrule_cell_motion_detection”, with the help of the ONVIF integration.

So now I got it to work that I get a message and a picture on Telegram whenever someone is at the gate. Exactly what I was looking for.

I can conform that it works with the HB615 and the HB613
I bought them on Banggood for around 30 USD

So if you are looking for a very cheap camera with motion detect, POE support, nightvision, sound and 3/5 Megapixels, I could recommend this one!

Negative things:

  • A little black plastic strip (not sure what it does) had to be glued on. It fell off when I took it out of the box. Wrong kind of glue maybe? Easily fixed though! :slight_smile:
  • One of the five I bought got problems with moist on the inside after a few months of use. Maybe a “monday morning-product”?
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Hi,
can you elaborate a bit on the cheap cameras?
HA found the binary_sensor.mymotiondetectorrule_cell_motion_detection; I enabled the “Intelligent Alert” in the camera config, but nothing gets triggered.
Do you have to enable some other actions on che camera? Push, FTP, Email, Log?
Thank you

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Nevermind… I found out that my camera has a small bug: the motion detection via ONVIF is triggered only when the standard motion detection is enabled. If I enable HumanDetection, mymotiondetectorrule_cell_motion_detection does NOT trigger, though the other services do trigger (e.g. the AlarmServer).

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Hello, can you please share your config for the hiseeu cameras?

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You have to add the camera as a ONVIF camera, with the onvif integration in Home Assistant. After the camera is added and working, you can use triggers and you can search for “motion” to find them!
Sorry for the late response. You probably already got it working.