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Amcrest makes very good 4k cameras for about $100. Very solid.

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Ive had excellent results with the amcrest ad410. I have also had good experiences with annke 8 chan dvr as i have some older wired cameras that connects to the that unit and i offload the stream and motion detection to motion eye. All running, barely, in a pi3.

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Usually the go to is Amcrest and Reolink connected through Frigate NVR, this can be used in Home Assistant. Amcrest is preferred by Frigate, but Reolink has the better doorbell camera. It's best to practice proper networking practices and keep these devices off the internet. You can access them remotely through a VPN(WireGuard or TailScale)or the Nabu Casa service for Home Assistant.

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I really like my Amcrest cameras with Blue Iris NVR. Along with using Frigate for Home Assistant. Make sure if you want to use Frigate to get a Google Coral TPU.

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I run frigate with Amcrest cameras and a Reolink wifi doorbell. The doorbell has its own chime that plugs in inside the house and runs even if HA isn’t running. It connects using the existing doorbell wiring for power and uses wifi to connect to HA and frigate. You can communicate with the person at the door using the Reolink app on your phone and I have not yet investigated using other methods to talk back over the doorbell or even if it’s possible. One nice thing is that the cameras and doorbell can use micro sd cards as a backup recorder local to the camera that will work even if frigate …

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I'm quite happy with my Amcrest. Has worked well with Frigate and HA.

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Frigate/go2rtc has been real flakey with the cheap Tapo I tried to use as a substitute for my more expensive Dahuas. From my understanding, Dahua is kinda the gold standard for implementing standards based codecs and communication protocols. They have been 100% dead reliable and performant since installing them, while my various Tapo, Reolink, and Wyze cams need constant fiddling and special configuration, as they are primarily designed to work with their mfg cloud services. I’d say spend a little more to get Dahuas, and never have to second guess your choice like me.

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Dahua T5442T / Empiretech IPC-541-AS for night. It's B&W + IR but the stills it takes at night with motion are very good. If you're dead set on color, the 4K-X and 4K-T are good, but don't get good night motion detail . You really just need light to do that well. They both have excellent feature sets and are great bang for the buck. I believe a fair number of the frigate team use 5442 as well , so there's that.

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I have a lot of eufy cams, C22, P24 and others. They work great with HA and Frigate, no local hub needed. initial online pairing in the app, network level blocking afterwards so no package leaves the LAN. Happy with all they do.

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… https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit/ ### Example YAML snippet [code] ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? [code] ` ### Additional information My cameras are integrated with Frigate NVR. I use the HA Frigate NVR integration via HACS which is what creates the camera entities in HA. I've been running this setup for a few months with no issues until recently.

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I am running frigate with tapos and it works quite well. You want some cpu or gpu with acceleration for detection but just modern intel cpus are fine. I am running two C310 cameras with Intel N305 CPU and the load is less than 10%.

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… RLC-410). My server has a 3900x, so it's pretty beefy, but I still only saw \~20% CPU utilization during detection events. I still ended up getting a USB coral (got mine from Mouser, very quick shipping and lowest price I could find). I did install the CA driver, even though I was under the impression that it was only required for the PCI version. I couldn't get Frigate to see the device until I enabled 'Privileged Mode' for the container. Got the HACS integration to HASS up and running with no trouble, and man... Frigate is *amazing!* I've tried setups with Shinobi, Motioneye, Zoneminder, …

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I have several brands and I like the REOLink ones the best. This includes the doorbell cam that is really good compared to the Amcrest it replaced.

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Reolink + Frigate

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Usually the go to is Amcrest and Reolink connected through Frigate NVR, this can be used in Home Assistant. Amcrest is preferred by Frigate, but Reolink has the better doorbell camera. It's best to practice proper networking practices and keep these devices off the internet. You can access them remotely through a VPN(WireGuard or TailScale)or the Nabu Casa service for Home Assistant.

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Using reolink with frigate. Works great

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Just to add I bought one of their cameras pretty nervous having seen the same in the docs, and it's been great too - the 520a. Frigate has a learning curve for sure, but once it's up and running it's great

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I do have a solution. This is my current setup: I have a Reolink RTSP camera in my living room. I have it connected to the Frigate addon. In the latest beta the dev added audio detection whith a list of about 500 different types of audio. I use bark detection for my dog when I'm away as well as glass break detection (since Amazon screwed everybody out of that free service yet again) and smoke detector detection. I have tested the crap out of it and it works extremely well and is super fast at sending me the notification. There is not a lot of documentation yet on the audio detection so if you …

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My simple reolink doorbell works with two way audio. The doorbell is connected to Frigate, and frigate is integrated in home assistant. As an added bonus, you also get an NVR with cool object recognition, and you can trigger automations based on that

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So I just got Frigate up and running on my unRAID box last week. Started with CPU-only, running with 4 Reolink 4MP cameras (Gen 1 RLC-410). My server has a 3900x, so it's pretty beefy, but I still only saw \~20% CPU utilization during detection events. I still ended up getting a USB coral (got mine from Mouser, very quick shipping and lowest price I could find). I did install the CA driver, even though I was under the impression that it was only required for the PCI version. I couldn't get Frigate to see the device until I enabled 'Privileged Mode' for the container. Got the HACS integration …

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I'm using 2x Tapo C210 cameras. Pan/tilt, $25 on Amazon, has RTSP stream and a lower quality substream for motion detection. At $25 you can buy so many of these before you buy a single Unifi pan tilt camera Then Frigate for local recording/motion detection/storage etc

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I've got a TP-Link Vigi C540V installed, which is a PTZ camera using POE. I'm pretty impressed with the night time images. I'm out of town, so no ambient light other than the moon. These two images show the IR lighting in action, as it were. This first image is zoomed in about 2/3 of the full range. The top half of the image is with the IR led off; the bottom with the IR on. On the left, under the time stamp, you can see some posts that are about 40 metres from the camera. This image is full zoom out. The top half shows the image without the IR, the bottom half has the IR on. It is raining …

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The wyze cam V3s are fantastic. If you use wz-mini-hacks on github you can load custom firmware to get an RSTP stream from them to Frigate and do it all there. Been running this setup for almost a year and it's been great!

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Wyzecam V3 with hacked firmware to make them cloud-free . Everything managed by Frigate and a Google coral AI as objects identifier. Works like a charm.

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I have Reolink Doorbell and E1 zoom indoor along with 5 Wyze V3 cameras (w/ RTSP firmware) for viewing outside. I also have Frigate setup and working with all cameras. Both Wyze and Reolink work well for me, but as my Wyze cameras die I will replace them with Reolink.

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The problem I want to export 3 cameras from frigate in HA to homekit. One is a doorbell the other two I just want to be motion based on the people occupancy sensor. However all 3 appear to generate as doorbells when viewed in homekit and automatically seem to have a doorbell senor linked even if not configured. support_audio: false also appears to be ignored as they all show up with audio and push to talk options. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2022.9.4 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are …

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I moved the USB coral to the back side, and now Frigate runs. It turns out the issue was the power supply. Thank you!

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there was an update but it didnt change any of the substream options. It has made dealing with Frigate / Homebridge (Camera.Ui) a nightmare managing 6 4K streams. Ive really had to beef up my hardware. Its stable but still far from ideal trying to stream anything out of the house. Seriously might look into replacing them all with a different version. ​ Would you stick with Amcrest or ditch them?

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Reolink is great for HA, but can have issues with frigate depending on camera model. I'm less correcting you, more just wanting to make sure no one buys reolink because it works great with HA and expects that to mean frigate, like I did

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I got the Wifi version about two weeks ago. Packaged nicely, looks decent, easy to set up, and integrated with HA without any trouble. I have it integrated with Home Assistant and Frigate. I find the video to be way more reliable when re-streamed through Frigate. Two downsides: First, it has a web interface but it isn't enabled out of the box. In order to enable the web interface you need to connect to it using the Reolink desktop app which is Windows/Mac only. Secondly, as someone else mentioned, the chime. It cannot leverage your existing chime if you have one and the plug in chime can't be …

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Frigate/go2rtc has been real flakey with the cheap Tapo I tried to use as a substitute for my more expensive Dahuas. From my understanding, Dahua is kinda the gold standard for implementing standards based codecs and communication protocols. They have been 100% dead reliable and performant since installing them, while my various Tapo, Reolink, and Wyze cams need constant fiddling and special configuration, as they are primarily designed to work with their mfg cloud services. I’d say spend a little more to get Dahuas, and never have to second guess your choice like me.

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… https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit/ ### Diagnostics information From the Home Assistant Core Logs: 2023-02-02 18:56:14.527 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homekit.type_cameras] [456e3f10-a1ac-4aae-8eac-994e47b2c992] Failed to close stream From the Homekit Integration debug logging: 2023-01-29 21:18:19.274 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homekit.type_cameras] Doorbell: ffmpeg: b'rtsp://xxx.x.x.x:yyyy/T8210P342127221E: Server returned 400 Bad Request' [x and y are the url and port] ### Example YAML snippet [code] ### Anything in the logs that might be …

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… like to know what it was and why you got burned from your purchase. I think something like this would be a great resource for those just getting started. Google Nest Cameras. I had 8 of various models and intended to use them with Frigate. Then El'Googs changed the API and killed "Works with Nest". I've since replaced every one of those cameras with local only devices. LIFX WiFi LED bulbs. In total, I had 104 bulbs, strips, bars throughout my home. My network was strong enough to support all of those devices without a hiccup. Then the company changed ownership and everything went downhill. …

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My use case is Apple specific, but I’ve been pretty happy with scrypted and hksv. I started with frigate but it didn’t like a couple of og wyze cams I had.

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