Hey all I’m looking for recommendations for a video doorbell that doesn’t need an internet connection.
Preferably something that is WiFi and would work with Frigate?
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Reolink
I can recommend this too. I got the WiFi version. Integrates beautifully with home assistant including motion/person detection.
Only downside is Reolink encodes in hvec. Frigate handles it fine, but be aware that viewing may be an issue. I’d still buy more Reolink cameras though.
I went with this but PoE. Happy so far.
Have not used Frigate
When using reolink in a self-hosted setting:
- how do you get notifications of someone at the door?
- can you use the android app still?
- how do you securely store video on your server? They say they support ftps, but I have no idea how hard that is to set up. Shame they don’t support sftp.
Thanks
I bought one of their NVRs, so that currently stores recordings. I have yet to figure out how (or if) I want to integrate with my NAS or other (tbd) home automation.
I get push notifications on my phone and watch by having the Reolink app installed.
With ftps, can you use a self-signed cert? If so, how does it verify the cert? Do you have to upload the public key, or does it cache it on first use?
Can the Reolink doorbell leverage your existing chime? Or do you need to use the plug-in chime that it comes with?
I believe it’s their plug-in or your via a relay like home assistant or your phone
Thanks. I ordered one and, yeah, it’s their plug and whatever you come up with in Home Assistant.
You using it already?
I found this but its “Smart”. https://www.amazon.com.au/REOLINK-Doorbell-WiFi-Camera-Subscription/dp/B0B7S3JSG7
As far as I know they only do two versions, WiFi and PoE. Both can work without connecting to any of their services: https://m.reolink.com/product/reolink-video-doorbell-wifi/
Sweet. Thanks mate.
Reolink.
I have the Aqara G4 doorbell and supposedly it works with WiFi and Frigate (via go2rtc), but I haven’t set up Frigate and I haven’t verified that it fully functions with the internet turned off. It uses Homekit but supposedly will receive Matter via a software update.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HA Home Assistant automation software ~ High Availability IP Internet Protocol NAS Network-Attached Storage NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) PoE Power over Ethernet
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2N Verso.
- Works totally offline/Cloud free if required.
- Can be integrated into any NVR&SIP environment
- Can easily be used with plausible deniability. “Yeah, officer,I am just using it when someone rings the bell, no recording,the bell system never records,no!”
- Very sturdy and reliable hardware
- Offers indoor viewing stations (for the less technically adept household members)
- PoE based, can be used with LTE in some versions.
- Good documentation
- With the automation licence (Costs a bit extra,but is “buy once” at least) basically everything one can imagine automation wise can be achieved, including API calls,etc.
- Can be extended with RFID, Fingerprint, Bluetooth,Induction loops,etc.
If you want to use their cloud service you have to pay a small fee,but that’s purely optional and you can easily use your own SIP solution to avoid this. Or simply don’t answer your door from somewhere else.
The big downside? It’s ridiculously expensive. But I mean…how often does one buy a new doorbell?
I like Zoneminder personally, but I’m curious about Frigate. Have you tried both by chance?
Hikvision if you don’t mind sponsoring chinese govt for the hardware and blocking it from the internet.
unifi has nice (a) doorbell(s). you need a server to record and run the controller though, but that can be a raspberry pi
Don’t the Ubiquity doorbells require a ‘dream machine’ storage appliance for recording video? I didn’t think there was a way to use your own storage anymore which has been my main hesitation in getting one.
oh, i didn’t know that, as i’m already in to deep in unifi appliances 😬
i think i remember that it was not required, but i would not be surprised if that has changed.
consodering that you would need a subscription for a ring doorbell (if i remember correctly) the 200€ for the storage device and the ~180€ for the doorbell would still be cheaper. i’d be surprised to see another alternative with the same features for less money or without a aubscription.
Don’t. They consumer surveillanceware cops will try to access if they get the chance.
Well, the goal would be that its not accessible externally. And I’m OK with providing footage should they request it - that’s just something you have to accept when owning a security system.
They can’t request it if you don’t build it. That’s the point. We’ve never needed this security theater before. You don’t need a video camera pointed out towards the public 24/7. Don’t build it and they won’t come.
“security theater” my guy it’s not x-ray scanning them, it’s so the Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t try and convert me, so when I am taking a shit I can see it’s just the delivery guy and not someone I need to run out with my pants around my ankles, it’s so I can communicate with the neighbors that lock themselves out again asking when I’ll be back from errands.
Picking a camera vendor that doesn’t give out data like a 2-bit trick isn’t terribly difficult. Not every company is Amazon. Calm down, you’ve been watching way too many cop dramas.
