I was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for indoor/outdoor cameras. I currently have two Wyze indoor cameras and like them. We currently have Vivnt home security that came with our home. I eventually want the Hubitat to do it all. I am now at a point where I want to cancel the Vivint system and replace all the cameras with another ecosystem. I have been waiting for the Wyze outdoor camera to come out and have people review it. There are two things people have said are cons, notification times when a person is detected and how long it records. I like Wyze because they are pretty good quality and are a great price. I want to stay with in one ecosystem with the cameras and doorbell. Also, I prefer wired cameras so I dont have to deal with charging them, but not against batter options.
If you are already satisified with Wyze and you are going to wire it anyway, consider an outdoor mount for the indoor camera. I've used a couple of these mounts successfully outdoors (under eaves).
yes agreed i have used wyze with the outdoor cover.. even in the UP michigan over 300 inches snow it is still working after winter.. I do recommend if you are using wyze cameras in a remote location put either a kasa wifi or zwave/zigbee switch on it so that you can reboot periodically if need be.
Also search on amazon I recommend different covers with a more slantecd typically roof.
Also a long time user of Wyze and outdoor cases that I picked up on Amazon. I've been running4 of them outside for a good year to year and a half now, they run great.
They are running the latest RTSP firmware and are tied into Blue Iris perfectly and in turn are available/accessible in Home Assistant, Node-RED and even the iOS Home app
I'm never sure when i see people talk about cameras and Hubitat, what does Hiubitat even allow in the realm of cameras?
Ya I don't think I want 15 camera streaming constantly to a pc on my net
I tried that with smarthings and it locked up my wifi. I prefer storing on their local SD cards and viewing at my leisure.
I also have 6 WYZE cameras (4 V2s, a Pan, and an Outdoor cam). 2 V2s live outside in an amazon case. No issues at all. I run a small Android box with TinyCamPro server on it. That provides video streams for any dashboard and I keep the stock firmware (not RTSP) for now. Also, motion from Wyze cam through IFTTT to HE to trigger Alexa's announcement that someone's at the door before they ring a doorbell. Overall, cheap and simple setup.
I'm not yet sure if using TinyCamPro vs. RTSP firmware is more efficient or not.
Another plus for Wyze cams I use 3 different camera systems we moved from Maryland to Georgia over 10 years ago doing the housing crash of 2008, my mother and father past and left me their house which we still have in Maryland at those house I use Wyze V2 cams in outdoor cases works super have been doing it for the last. 3 years reliably after the old camera systems we had in place took a dump. But at our Georgia home I use Arlo cams (just for the motion sensors) combined with a new 4K camera setup we have the 4K cams use pixel based motion detection and the false notifications were driving the wife crazy so I put the old Arlo pros back up with the 4K cams and I use them to detect motion and we view any footage from the 4K cams works super awesome I know it may seem like over kill but pir motion detection is the way to go with cameras.
The Eufy cams are also good I installed some of those at my daughters house she loves them.
