Recommendation for inside camera that work with home assistant

Hardware
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Hi, I am looking for some recommendations for some new internal CCTV cameras. I had a couple of Neos cameras but they are shutting down this year and I bought these long before I started using home assistant so they were cloud connected, which now means they’ll be paper waits when they shutdown.

I’m looking for a couple of small cheap cameras that I can use to replace these Neos camera, ideally I would want the following features:

  • No cloud requirement
  • Be able to connect, view and manage through home assitstant
  • Local storage, on camera is probably OK, but if there is way to record somewhere it can be accesssed via home assistant would be good. I rent so can’t install ethernet cables so have to rely on wifi connectivity, so remote storage probably wouldn’t be ideal.
  • Auto arming/disarming, so they’re not recording 24/7, only trigger recording while they see motion or hear sound.
  • Be fairly small and lightweight, I can’t permanently fix to the wall, so was stuck up using 3M picture mounting pads.

Can anyone recommend anything that fits these requirements, if this is even possible I’m not too sure.

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You might want to look into the Camera Hub G3 then as it should cover your needs:

The other option is the Switchbot version:

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Thanks for the info, I’ll check them out :slightly_smiling_face:

4

I took a different route in the end. I found this GitHub repo (thingino-installers/wyze-cam-2 at main · wltechblog/thingino-installers · GitHub) and corresponding YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifXObp2jhO0) that allows you to replace the firmware on the Neos camera and then I installed Frigage within Home Assistant using this other YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pWQg4-VQ8o&t=0s)

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Thingino open source firmware rules! But the Wyze Cam v2 not so much. I would recommend the WUUK 4K pan/tilt cam (US: Amazon.com: WUUK 4MP Indoor Security Camera, Pan Tilt Cam for Baby Monitor, Wi-Fi Home Security Pet Camera for Dog or Cat, Motion Detection & Tracking, Night Vision, 2-Way Audio, Compatible with Alexa & Google : Electronics, DE: WUUK 4MP Überwachungskamera Innen, WLAN IP Haustier Kamera Überwachung Innen mit APP, 360° Auto-Tracking Babyphone mit Kamera, Unterstützt Alexa/Google Home/2.4Ghz WiFi,Bewegungserkennung,2 Way Talk : Amazon.de: Baumarkt). They are cheap, especially in multipack and work great with Thingino open source firmware.

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I’m on the thingino train too. how does one incorporate them into home assistant? What do you guys do?

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Very little lag with the Generic Camera integration and the following settings: Still image URL: http://thingino_ip/onvif/image.cgi - Stream Source URL: rtsp://thingino_ip/ch0 - protocol: TCP, - Authentication: basic - username+password: thingino

Still tinkering with the ONVIF integration to get working PTZ controls.

Edit: use the ONVIF integration and a picture glance card with below configuration.

type: picture-glance
entities:
  - entity: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: onvif.ptz
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
        pan: LEFT
        speed: 0.5
        distance: 0.1
        move_mode: ContinuousMove
    name: Pan Left
    show_state: false
    icon: mdi:arrow-left
    show_icon: true
  - entity: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: onvif.ptz
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
        tilt: UP
        speed: 0.5
        distance: 0.1
        move_mode: ContinuousMove
    name: Tilt Up
    icon: mdi:arrow-up
  - entity: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: onvif.ptz
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
        tilt: DOWN
        speed: 0.5
        distance: 0.1
        move_mode: ContinuousMove
    name: Tilt Down
    icon: mdi:arrow-down
  - entity: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: onvif.ptz
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
        pan: RIGHT
        speed: 0.5
        distance: 0.1
        move_mode: ContinuousMove
    name: Pan Right
    icon: mdi:arrow-right
    show_icon: true
  - entity: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: onvif.ptz
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
        preset: PresetToken_0
        speed: 0.5
        distance: 0.1
        move_mode: GotoPreset
    name: Preset 0
    show_state: false
    icon: mdi:numeric-0-box
    show_icon: true
  - entity: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: onvif.ptz
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
        preset: PresetToken_1
        speed: 0.5
        distance: 0.1
        move_mode: GotoPreset
    name: Preset 1
    show_state: false
    icon: mdi:numeric-1-box
    show_icon: true
  - entity: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: onvif.ptz
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
        preset: PresetToken_2
        speed: 0.5
        distance: 0.5
        move_mode: GotoPreset
    name: Preset 2
    show_state: false
    icon: mdi:numeric-2-box
    show_icon: true
camera_image: camera.wuuk1_profile_0
camera_view: live
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Is it possible to use two way audio with thingino? I would like to retain the ability to speak through the camera if necessary

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This Thingino firmware is interesting, anyone know if is possibile to use the motion detection, sound detection, set sensitivity, set led / IR on/off, etc.?
Is there already an integration?