My goal with home automation is to be able to use a button or single voice command to turn on a monitor to display security camera feeds and illuminate certain areas of my home. Essentially, when I hit the button a smart outlet (open to alternatives) would turn on a TV and my Hubitat compatible cameras would be displayed so I can see my door feeds if there’s a ‘bump in the night’.
I’m in the beginning stages of getting into home automation, so I’m open to suggestions for how to accomplish the goal.
What does "Hubitat compatible camera" mean to you? Hubitat does not support video per se (it's an automation platform). If you want to use Hubitat Dashboard to view feeds from a camera, you can do that--it's just a webpage, so any method you have that is compatible with the browser you'd use for Dashboard would work (an MPEG stream is a widely supported option that some popular software, including Blue Iris, can output).
Beyond that, it's totally doable to use a button--or literally any device that works with Hubitat--to turn on a smart outlet, including one connected to a TV that is "dumb" enough to not need you to also press a soft "On" button when power is restored to it in order to get it to truly turn on (there are workarounds for that like Logitech Harmony or an IR device of some sort, but that might be overkill for such a simple situation).
