I'm still pretty new to Home Automation so looking for a little help. I was searching thru the forum, but still a little confused on the best way to do this and what to use.
I'm looking to buy some motion sensing flood lights with and without built-in camera and/or security cameras. I do not care about seeing live video in the dashboard. My main desire is that when the camera detects motion, it communicates that to Hubitat, so that I can use it as a trigger to turn on other flood lights.
Is there a particular brand that integrates well for this purpose? I'd prefer to keep everything to local if possible. I think I read there are some people using IFTTT which I believe requires cloud; if it is the only way to do it then fine, but not the preference.
I've got one of the new TPlink TAPO cameras with "AI" person detection.
When it detects a person it notifies my phone where macrodroid picks up the notification and triggers a message to my hub.
I use this trigger to have Sonos tell me its spotted someone, but obviously you can use it for anything.
If you are just doing motion detection (which the TAPO camera will also do but then it triggers on cats and foxes and well everything) rather than AI person detection, I'd not use a camera but instead a PIR sensor... or even just some dumb floodlights with integrated PIR
Get sophisticated ip cameras, and get Blue Iris running on a full-time dedicated windows machine. (This is obviously the "Cadillac" approach). There is an excellent Blue Iris interface to Hubitat.
Get a Dahua or Amcrest camera. There is an interface to Hubitat written. (I myself tried this and couldn't get it to work, but there are many others who have used this interface with great success.)
