Omacitin

I've got a T6 Z-Wave also, controlling a 2-stage heat pump. I have it connected to HA through Zwave2mqtt. It's been pretty great except for two things:

A. Changing the time has no effect, as if the clock is read-only due to a hardware issue. I've had to set up the daily schedule in HA instead, but it's probably better that way anyway.

B. I can't see the stage and aux heat status in HA. Looks like all it exposes is a 'heating' or 'cooling' state. Anybody know how to get more info?

I've had 10 of the RGB ones, E21-N1EA, for a few months now and they've been working perfectly. Not the brightest or the most accurate color, but they're simple, cheap, and local-only.

Have you checked out Frigate? It's a local service that captures RTSP streams from cameras and uses neural net image recognition to trigger events / recordings. It has good integration with Home Assistant.