PoE Outdoor Camera Suggestions

Hardware
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Any luck with connecting these to HA / detecting motion sparky? We’re moving in to our newly bought house in Syd soon and are looking for a suitable solution.

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I have hooked one up but cant seem to get the ffmpeg component to work which I think is because I’m using Hass.IO rather than Hassbian. I’ve read some other people having problems with that component in Hass.IO too. Although I am very new to Home Assistant so it might just be me! I’ll be putting in some more time trying to work through all the issues I have with my install next week as it isn’t just the ffmpeg that’s giving me problems, I have a bunch of other things not working quite right as well.

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I would advise against using this component, at least if the camera is using rstp stream, performance are simply too poor. With camera exposing an mpeg/m-jpeg stream it should work fine.

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ok thanks, so is there something better that uses the rstp stream? or are you just suggesting that in general Hass.IO will struggle too much with a video feed?

I have actually now received info from the manufacturer of the cameras as to how I can access still images which is really all I want Hass.IO to do, so they can be sent in notifications. As for motion detection and recording etc, i plan to leave that to a dedicated server.

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Only with rstp video feed, with an mpeg of m-jpeg feed I thing the performance are pretty good.

I run an HA on a home server, much more powerful than a raspberry, but it was still not enough to convert the rstp stream using ffmpeg.

If the camera can provide a jpeg image feed it sure won’t be an issue. Which video feed does the camera offer?

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i know it has rstp but I haven’t looked into what else it have offer. I guess it might be worth an email to my contact at the manufacturer… she is really helpful.

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where to buy them?

YOu can install them on a vertical wall outdoor?

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I buy them direct from the manufacturer in China. Website is www.ccdcam.cn Yes, you can mount them on a vertical wall outdoors, I had three mounted that way in my last house for years without any issue. The model I prefer is: http://www.ccdcam.cn/product/H265_IMX326_5MP_Security_CCTV_DWDR_Vandalproof_Network_POE_Camera_with_two_way_Audio.html

This company also sells network video recorders, PoE ethernet switches, cables etc, (everything you need for a full recording setup) very cheap.

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thanks.

Support for Tinycam?

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Here you go, These are great cameras.

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Does this camera integrate well with HA? (Notably the live stream?)

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It does your answer should be in here somewhere,

https://community.home-assistant.io/search?q=dah

I run a Blue Iris server and have had that integrated into Hass in the past. BTW, If you decide to order one of these Andy is a great guy to deal with. I’ve ordered 6 or so cameras from him and always have them in 3-4 days from China.

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Can you have a sensor in HASS triggered by camera motion event?

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+1. I have four of these and love them. I’ve posted about a python script I use to monitor for IVS smart detection events that I’ve connected to HomeAssistant via MQTT. Great setup.

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Yes, I have them turning outside lights when cameras detect motion.

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Super cool, can you share the code.

What’s the price of the camera, I Queried, but no answer

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Would your code work with Hikvision camera? I have 2 but don’t know how to have the motion trigger as sensor

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I don’t know, but I just posted a separate topic: Dahua IP cam IVS event as binary_sensor equals smarter camera motion detection

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Here’s mine, also have a script in it to check if the switch is manually on.

- alias: Turn on south/sw  lights when there is movement
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_frontclone
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_eastclone
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_garageclone
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_fdclone
    to: 'on'
  condition: 
   - condition: state
     entity_id: sun.sun
     state: 'below_horizon'
  action:
#  - service: switch.turn_on
#    entity_id:
#      - switch.front_door_switch
#      - switch.south_west_switch
  - service: script.turn_on
    entity_id:
      - script.front_light_auto_on
      - script.southwest_light_auto_on 

- alias: Turn off south/sw lights 8 seconds after last movement
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_frontclone
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_eastclone
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_garageclone
      - binary_sensor.blue_iris_fdclone
    to: 'off'
    for:
      seconds: 8
  action:
#    - service: switch.turn_off
#      entity_id:
#        - switch.front_door_switch
#        - switch.south_west_switch
    - service: script.turn_on
      entity_id:
        - script.front_light_auto_off
        - script.southwest_light_auto_off
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I am new to this. How you get the blue iris sensor?