Hi all, my Unifi Doorbell just died after only 4 years of service. I’ve been pretty disheartened with them lately, other products haven’t lived up to the company’s promise.

So I’m not looking to replace my networking stack yet, but I am looking for a doorbell camera. I only have the Unifi machine, but I also have an extensive docker/kubernetes stack, and mostly I want to use it with Home Assistant.

Any recommendations? Open to software, hardware, you name it. I have a few other Unifi cameras too, if they could be brought into the fold while I slowly migrate, I’d be interested. Thanks!

  • FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    4 个月前

    I bought a Ubiquity router once because a friend was raving about it. It crapped out on me after maybe 6 months? Will never buy their hardware again.

    I’m using a Reolink doorbell camera and am happy with it so far. Had it for about two years.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
      3·
      4 个月前

      How do you use Reolink? I’ve heard other people mention it, meaning do you need an NVR, or HomeAssistant, does it work in Unifi, curious how you use it

      • FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        4 个月前

        You don’t need an NVR. The camera supports a microSD card to store footage. It also supports FTP upload.

        HomeAssistant isn’t required. It is supported and I do have it configured.

        I have next to no recollection of how UniFi works so I can’t speak to that. Mine is connected to a 2.4GHz WiFi network. IIRC that’s all it supports. Might be different with newer models.

        It also supports HTTP(S)/RTMP/RTSP/ONVIF streaming. Though I tend to just use the app (and I’m particular about installing apps) as I find it quite usable.

      • hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        4 个月前

        I have a reolink doorbell, running local-only. It records to my Synology nas, and is integrated with home assistant for ring notifications. But it took quite a bit of work to get it set up in home assistant, and I’m not quite happy with it yet… Need to tweak some more.

    • jenings@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 个月前

      What do you use now? After bouncing from really disappointing uotine with linksys, netgear and some other Chinese router I’ve been extremely satisfied with UniFi stuff. Best uptime by a large margin and I bought used off eBay