So their cameras aren’t qualified or any other devices. So you have to use RTSP to get the cameras into home assistant. That’s still better than what Wyze currently offers natively, but not as exciting as getting every entity for the camera brought into home assistant. In theory, the cameras could even share their local AI detections, notifications, Spotlight control, detection sensitivity, basically any setting it feature.
Currently that level of integration is rare and online available with more expensive cameras. If anyone sold some in the $40ish range (even if just during sales) I would buy some.
For RTSP, The Thingino project has an affordable pan camera they highly recommend for converting to their firmware that is under $40. I have been tempted to try one of those if I go with regular rtsp.
I use P1 motion sensors, entry sensors, mini buttons, vibration sensors etc. you can but some refurbished Reolink POE for around $50 and up on Reolink eBay and their website has some. Frigate or Reolink integration probably needed.
First hump was upgrade the cam firmware.
That exposed the rtsp paths. It didn’t kill the cam. Lol
Gave ufw firewall allow 8554 for my lan.
Generic Camera setting, rstp stream path, tcp, supplied name and password from rtsp Aqara device rtsp settings. After update they popped it all popped in.
Might have restarted camera and app after that.
Unchecked SSL, I think that’s it. Submit, just spins preview if no mistakes made, I said it looked good anyhow and it popped up in generic camera as idle.
But, when i clicked the idle cam icon in Generic Camera it made static noises like crazy in the camera. So… unknown issue there so far.
Also, moving arm in from of camera, there seems a delay of some sort. Arm in front, delay to see arm, detection very quick.
I guess the lag is RTSP to keep it smooth. Not certain yet.
For just RTSP, I’m not sure their worth it.
I will fiddle with it 15-20 days, probably send it back, other than having a toy around.
No sensors exposed without the Frigate install headache, I have no Coral tpu..so, I’ll mess with it since I have it and see if I want to waste, $35. Or not.
Thanks @szandbergen and @G2740 . I should have thought of trying VLC first.
So yeah, works perfectly fine with VLC. And guess what - it works in HA too. I went by the preview that you get when you initially set up the camera. That one doesn’t show anything, so I never went ahead and tried the next step.
But if you check “everything looks fine” and actually create the device, it works. Duh…
Just another walled garden of subscriptions, no sensors exposed I can see, without further hassles and expense, such as Frigate, Coral TPU, Aqara hubs and Homekit. Even with subscription no sensors. Sounds familiar.
Waste of time for just RTSP.
Personally, I’m disappointed. Same crap different $brand$. I guess I’ll have to try a Reolink and see what it does. They just sell cameras and their integration does open some sensors up. Might still need Frigate.
Reolink probably has the best camera integration with Home Assistant right now, but make no mistake it is all because of starkillerOG’s work since 2022. It’s the only reason why Reolink got Platinum quality status from Home Assistant.
I have one of these that I intended to setup on my mini-pc and use with something like frigate, but haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to set it up and make sure certain dockers can use it.
Was it easy to set up? What are you using it for or plan to use it for?
Eventually I want to move my home assistant from a home assistant green to a server that can run all add-ons locally with enough storage, RAM, and processor to do everything well.
Just my opinions here, so far even on high detections, V4 kicks G100s butt for detections.
Nice enough color at 1296p or whatever. How to get 2k is .
Aqara App has a bunch of different settings and icons to get used to.
Free cloud trial. See if it detects cats. The V4 does.
I sat it out on the deck, V4 is 10 feet further away using magnet on my metal door.
I’ll play with it a little while and be fair, posted on X Aqara and X Home Assistant feeds about works with Home Assistant, just barely, RTSP only out of the box.
Aqara confirmed that also, with similar to Wyze messaging returns. They want to change that and feed back was good to have to pass on to the devs.
I’ve heard it from various security companies. Empty & meaningless copy and paste responses without action.
G100 camera sensors do not work with HA, Easily. Unless Matter camera make a difference. Unknown.
But within a week or so, its going back. I have two OGs laying around wanting to be mounted for months. Reokink POE is the way I guess.
If anyone sold some in the $40ish range (even if just during sales) I would buy some.
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