For me I couldn't care less. I hate talking to my house...lol
Not completely true. I would say HA has everything single HE local/Cloud devices and more also every imaginable cloud integrations.
They are both great at certain things.
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Yeah, agree. Of the differences between Hubitat and Home Assistant, I don't think coverage of smart devices (local or cloud) will ever fall into the Hubitat column.
Talk ease of use or rule machine or something else subjective... just not device compatibility.
Sorry if this was addressed somewhere in this thread but I couldnt find it.
I want to install a couple of cameras with color night vision but I believe they all (including the Reolinks) rely on a spotlight for the color. Anyone know if there is a way to have hubitat deactivate the spotlight based on some conditions. I know Rule Machine can handle what I need it to do but is there a URL I can hit to disable/enable that light? I dont have a color night vision camera to test with.
Thanks.
Thank you for all the detailed information about using Hubitat with HA. I've been dragging my feet to add HA but it sounds like in order to get better camera integration from Reolink, easier integration with Alexa, RATGDO for my useless MyQ garage doors, improved dashboards, probably other stuff; signs keep pointing to HA.
I have a Hubitat C-8 right now and love it. What is the minimal HA setup I would need for what I mentioned above? Can I just get a HA green without any dongles? My understanding is that HA would be used basically as an always on computer to run some of these applications to get information from these devices to Hubitat. So do I just need the pi basically? And that's the green, right?
I have a HA Green but as a backup I also have another version of it running on a PC in my office (always on) just in case the Green fails.
You can run it multiple ways....
I have 5 Reolink cameras connected to my green, 4 POE and a wifi doorbell. The integration is brilliant and I run live dashboards in my office and kitchen with the feeds. When you install HA it will likely auto detect a whole bunch of stuff running on your network without prompting, including your cameras.
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I use camect so my reolink and foscam cameras integrate thatway. Works really well. Also the AI can't be beat...
Thanks for the quick reply! I'm going to order a green. Does SkyConnect add any value if I already have a C-8 and smartthings hub? I think those both cover thread/matter/zigbee so not sure if it's worth adding SkyConnect to HA Green...
I had one. It was useful for a handful of zigbee devices that I couldn't make work with Hubitat, but over time I removed it as I didn't want to have overlapping layers, especially as I have a Hue setup too.
