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Doorbell Camera / NVR (post Unifi) (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 5 days ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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!

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[–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm working on a project involving home assistant, zigbee, and Google home. In a perfect world the doorbell would make all the Google homes chime. Not sure if it is going to work, but I know that I can simply hook up a Bluetooth speaker to the brains of it and it'll work.

Materials

Doorbell: https://a.co/d/02HBrOnB
ESP32-C6: https://a.co/d/011HRydn

Software

My home assistant will be a docker container. In order to make this work, I will be installing esphome on the esp32. I got an esp32 screen because it will also operate a self watering garden, but you don't need to. It will need to be configured as a zigbee proxy for home assistant, but seems pretty straight forward.