I currently use Frigate as an NVR for my outside cameras. I would like something that integrates with that. I really just care that it is fully local. I don’t want a chance of someone on the internet being able to access a camera in my baby’s bedroom.
I don’t have any but I’ve seen reolink mentioned a lot, cheaper would be tapo camera (what I have), I know some tapo have baby cry alert but don’t know if this function works with hacs component. For Tapo, once setup inside app you can block internet access to the camera threw your router or else. https://github.com/JurajNyiri/HomeAssistant-Tapo-Control
I too have a tp-link tapo indoor camera with said hacs component. I have set alerts for sound and movement, both work well, it need some tuning tough, like mic sensitivity…
For live video feed I use a webrtc camera from hacs as it has much better latency.
As a child monitor it works really well.
Thanks for the heads-up, haven’t tried webrtc. Something still missing for me is person detection, with luck it will be added in future as this has been requested by some user to tplink R&D (at this moment, this feature doesn’t comply with onvif standard).
None the less, they are good and cheap devices.
I tried and there is a noticeable delay / lag when using a wifi camera. I recommend using a real baby cam with a dedicated RF link to the base station like those made by Infant Optics. If u want to add a wifi based one as a supplement/ to feed the NVR, check out wyze v1 cams with the RTSP firmware.
I have two dcs-6100h for 9€ each that work just fine locally. Good ir night vision, very sensitiv mic and USB powered for trips.
I’m here for suggestions. Been using a xiaomi for a year but getting the thing configured on the go is a freaking pain.
I have Frigate set up with an Amcrest IP2M. I ended up buying a second wifi AP because my 2.4GHz was really clogged up after turning it on (probably related to a bunch of other stuff already on the same network).
It “phones home” a lot so I put it on a separate vlan and disabled internet access for it.
