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If you have outside cameras then i recommend LIFX Nightvision bulbs that have built in IR. IR helps my cams see better and when the cams detect people or cars they have my bulbs switch on visable light.
I do this with smart switches flashed with ESPhome and Home assistant manages the connection between them
What do you have now? I’m guessing it’s cloud based and I won’t be at all surprised by your issue. Need a local solution.
There really isn’t a debate. You don’t want cloud devices. What do you mean by local network? That would include your wifi. Maybe you’re talking about zigbee/wave. That would be the alternative to wifi. If I went wifi but if I did it over again i would probably look more into zigbee.
Seriously don’t make your home cloud dependant. Your actions will be slow and you’re screwed if your internet goes down.
r/homeassistant is the way to go
There is a Matter Integration for Home Assistant in Beta (Matter itself is more or less in Beta)
Doing this with Home Assistant wouldn’t be too bad.
At the bare minimum, or at least to start get data in a raid that losing a drive or 2 won’t cause you to lose everything. You’re not out of the yet. If you can’t lose your files you want 2 separate copies in different machines, preferably at different locations. Be that a cloud service or a remote server.
My files are on my local NAS server that are also backed up to my remote NAS server at my dad’s house over a VPN. Essential files (not my plex media) are also in a 1tb cloud service. 3-2-1 backup plan is probably ideal but I’m pretty happy with my 2.5-2.5-1.5 approach 😅. 3-3-2 for critical stuff and 2-2-1 for everything else.
A while back a bought a UNVR-PRO second hand and the idiot seller shipped it in a 1U Unifi network switch box with a few scraps of cardboard but plenty of room to bounce around. I was vocal about how terrible the packaging was, but ultimately ended up keeping it as somehow there were no signs of damage. Fast forward almost a year and the device bricked up. Was investigating the issue by asking questions on the Ubiquiti Discord and a UI employee reached out and told me to RMA it. Told me to hang onto it until they had one to ship out. Had to wait about a month and they sent me a new one, but never asked for the old one back. Sat on the broken one for a few months. Opened it up but there wasn’t anything obviously broken, took some photos, and put it on ebay for parts. Couldn’t believe how fast it sold. So while my initial packaging experience was terrible it worked out to me owing a UNVR-PRO for a net investment of about $150. Can’t complain too much.
Lol. 236 days and 107 days since the last reboots of my two servers.
Batteries are bad. Can be replaced, but getting into a rackmount UPS is nice too.