Whats the best all in one camera solution for homeassistant (preferable battery)

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@henrikrox

if you can point me in the right direction please do.

Recommended survilliance camera

Any ONVIF/RTSP camera will likely work with HA. Branding is a personal preference. If you don’t mind Chinese parts, I really like Reolink. They have a great price point and a pretty darn good camera selection too. I’ve always gotten very good response from their support team as well. They have camera lineups (battery powered usually) that don’t have any ONVIF/RTSP stream so just make sure you look out for that.

Favorite non-cloud camera?

Hi all, I searched, but haven’t found a lot of suggestions. I am trying to get the items in security camera setup all ironed out before making any more purchases. I have a couple raspberry pi zero cameras and they are working great with HA. Although for now, they are all inside because I haven’t had time to put them in an enclosure. I wouldn’t be opposed to buying cameras, but I’d rather have control over the storage and streaming of the cameras. I heard you could re-flash the Wyze firmware wi…

I tried all the camera platforms so you don't have to

Any chance to try it as a custom component?

And here is the search I used to find them. there are many more:

https://community.home-assistant.io/search?q=security%20camera%20order%3Alatest

@henrikrox

eufy, ring, arlo, logitech etc etc,

Then it seems you’ve answered your own question?

But I would think that with battery life it would get annoying needing to change the batteries too frequently.

I’d much rather have a mains/POE powered camera. But that’s just MHO.