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what's a good ip camera for home assistant? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 month ago by swooosh to c/homeassistant

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I don't have yet any preferences. Cheap, easy to set up, secure. What do you use and can recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just make sure they have substreams and get a coral (or GPU) for detection. Then a pi could probably handle it.

I have enough processing to do it all on CPU (8 cams+doorbell) but it ramps up the power usage, so it was better to use the gpu I already had for transcoding, as detection.

Without you can still just record and overwrite. Not that it's extremely useful without detection and notifications.

[–] glimse 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was planning on an Intel CPU that was recommended when I was putting my list together which I was told could handle detection up on to 8 cameras without issue (so I could skip the Coral all together)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Handle is much different than efficiently calculate.

[–] glimse 2 points 1 month ago

Sure, I just figured if it worked well with 8 it would work well with 4 + 1 unoptimized stream. If it doesn't work, I can just spend $40 on a coral