I currently have an ADT system and am looking at ditching it for a HA green with zigbee adapter and doing motion sensors, door/window sensors, smoke alarms, etc over zigbee in HA. The roommate would like cameras and i would like something that doesnt require an account on a company servers that could go bankrupt or phone home. Any suggestions?

Edit: While I doubt it, would it be possible to continue using the ADT sensors with HA instead of having to replace them all? I am assuming they are proprietary garbage and won’t work, but being proved wrong would not be a bad thing.

edit 2: my idea so far

  • HA Green (currently running on a Pi 4 just to get a feel for HAOS)
  • Reolink home hub (for managing battery wireless cams and storing video recordings
  • reolink Argus 3E cameras and possibly the doorbell (they detect motion, stream video, and have a floodlight which may get exposed to HA as entities under each cam device)
  • HA ZBT-1 (for zigbee/matter devices)
  • zigbee door/window contact sensors
  • huskypenguin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Look into frigate. It’s designed to work with home assistant and is incredibly reliable. It works with pretty much any camera that can publish a stream. That being said, most people recommend reo link

    I found some Amcrest cameras on Craigslist, 4 being sold for $75, and that started my system.

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I am looking at the Reolink Argus 3E with the reolink hub to handle the recording files. From what I understand, you can integrate the hub directly into HA and then all the cameras with their sensors become available from HA through the hub. So if, for example, you wanted to turn on the floodlight on the camera, you would tell Home Assistant, which would tell the hub, which would tell the camera.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    Anything on the low-end probably comes from China and requires an app or cloud account. Most are not NDAA compliant.

    Axis is alright on their lower end stuff without all the AI bullshit.

    Ubiquity is alright on the wired models.

  • jgoett154@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    For reusing the ADT sensors that’s a bit complicated depending on what was installed, when, etc. I’m going to assume it’s a home alarm, if not you can probably ignore me! 😆

    If all the sensors are hardwired you could maybe go with Konnected.

    If they are wireless and it’s older it might be a Honeywell Vista series alarm, ADT re-branded them as SafeWatch Pro as far as I am aware. Vista series alarms have 2 options that are available that I am aware of. 1 is an EnvisaLink 4 by Eyez On and the other is a DIY ESPHome based option called esphome-vistaECP. There is also Alarm Decoder, but they seem kinda dead now and all their stuff is sold out.

    If it’s a rebranded DSC PowerSeries the EnvisaLink 4 also works on it and the same person who made the other ESPHome project for Vista alarms has one for the DSC PowerSeries called esphome-DSCKeyBus

    Aside from those I am unsure what all ADT has sold/rebranded over the years. Some stuff appears to maybe be Z-Wave, but unsure about all of it?

    I am using esphome-vistaECP personally and once I got it setup it’s been working flawlessly!

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I don’t see anything to indicate what it is. The sensors connect wirelessly to the panel that sits at the front door. But I see no branding on the sensors themselves unless maybe they’re on the back and I need to remove them to check. The system was installed in like 2023. The panel itself has no visible branding except for the ADT logo and it is currently not connected to my Wi-Fi network but it does apparently connect to ADT through cellular over I think it’s AT&T.