Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Doorbell camera - pre recording & no subscription (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Intermesmerize@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Hi,

I am looking for a decent doorbell camera with:

No subscription.
Pre-recording locally, 5+ sec duration.
Event recording (locally) total duration of 15+ sec.
Smart detection: people only is ok.

I just got Wyze v2, but just found out it doesn't do pre-recording for the event, nor event recording. Only event snapshot.

Note: What I meant by pre-recording is sometimes called pre-motion recording, or pre-buffer.

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[–] dashid@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I haven't got into this yet, but the approach I was going to look into was using an IP camera and CCTV style software, which gives me my buffered recordings. I can then choose to process the image for motion, or use a PIR or push of the door bell to trigger the save (which is less intensive processing).

[–] Intermesmerize@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the idea.

[–] ThreeHits@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Iirc, Blue Iris is the software a lot of people use to manage their IP cameras.

[–] Intermesmerize@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Good to know.