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Camera recommendation/suggestion

Hi everybody, I need your expertise.

I’m using Scrypted (to pass the video to the other components and Homekit), Frigate and Home Assistant. Plus Apple for the HKSV. Everything already works, it’s not that.

I have the situation that you can see in the image, so a house of 2 floors, you have the garage door that goes into a driveway (with a 90º turn, but that’s another story), the driveway is “horizontally” large around 2.5/3m, and then goes into a gate covered by a lychgate (this is the term that Gemini said is the right one). On the right there’s another property that I would like to avoid recording.

The camera is set at the lower corner, represented in the image as the circle with a cross on it. I have an Ezviz C3TN 3MP which is a good camera in my opinion but isn’t right for the job as it’s too wide angle and covers more the other garden than my driveway. Plus, I put the camera on a bracket because the wall of the house dominated (50%+ of the screen) the framing; but the bracket does another problem, because the lower “garden (elevated)” has a plant that reflects the IR light so during the night I can only see it and barely the gate. Also, if I turn it to the left it’s the wall that reflects the light, so the image you see attached is the only way that it’s barely usable.

What I would need, I think, is a camera that has a tighter frame and/or a zoom that I can use to focus on the gate and a little of the driveway.

What would you suggest I do?

Thanks!

u/ConsistentAsparagus — 3 days ago
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I am testing Scrypted (with Home Assistant)

Its a great but "pricy" NVR - but it works better than Frigate with My Reolink.

But the HA integration lacks - compared to Frigate.

I have set it up via MQTT - but I only get a "Motion Sensor" pr. cam in the MQTT Integration and not one for person, animal, car etc..

How do I achive that.

BR,

Normann

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u/moseisleydk — 6 days ago
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Hoping someone on this subreddit can provide some help. I recently changed from one Mac Mini to a new one. Scrypted is running on the new Mac Mini. Cameras and NVR work fine on Scrypted itself. However, I cannot get any cameras added to HomeKit. When I try to add, it times out and I get the message "Unable to add accessory. Accessory is not reachable".

I have checked out all the suggestions in the wiki: https://docs.scrypted.app/homekit-troubleshooting.html

  • Ensure all your Apple TV and Home Pods are online and updated. Power cycling them is recommended in case one is stuck. - DONE
  • Ensure your Apple TV and Home Pods are on the same subnet as the Scrypted server. - They are
  • Ensure LAN/WLAN multicast is enabled on your router. - it is
  • Ensure the iOS device you are using for pairing is on the same network (pairing will fail on cellular). - it is
  • Ensure the Docker installation (if applicable) is using host networking. This configuration is the default if the official Scrypted Docker compose install script was used. - not applicable (running on Mac)
  • Try switching the mDNS advertiser used in the HomeKit plugin settings. - have tried all settings in menu, with restart in between each change
  • Try disabling IGMP Snooping on your router. - done

I have also set static IP for Scrypted under network and also under HK (the wired IP address) and disabled Wifi on the Mac.

Not sure if this is meaningful, but in the ios Home app, if I click "add accessory" and "more options", all of the cameras show up as nearby accessories (meaning that Home is seeing them from Scrypted). But attempting to add them to the Home app does not work and times out. Something seems to be blocking the connection between HK and Scypted.

When I had the same setup on my previous Mac Mini (on the same network), I had no difficulty adding the cameras to Scrypted.

I don't know what else to try, and am open to any suggestions.

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u/cryptic2020 — 13 days ago
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Object Detection in Home Assistant

I'll try to briefly describe what I'm trying to accomplish. Maybe I've misunderstood what Scrypted can do in Home Assistant:

I used to rely on my Reolink cameras' built in recognition for people and animals to alert me and to act as a trigger for various automations in Home Assistant. The reolink integration for Home Assistant exposes various entities/sensors to this effect. I now want to use Scrypted and its AI detection to improve the accuracy/sensitivity, since the native Reolink detection was missing quite a few events when they're happening in the background (a bit further from the camera). So I added my cameras to Scrypted. I added the Scrypted integration to HA. I "linked" HA to Scrypted with the peristent access token. I created a "Smart Motion Sensor" in the Video Analysis Plugin. However, I can't get this sensor to show up in HA. Maybe my expectations are off, but I thought this is how I would use Scrypted as a trigger in HA. I read some people use MQTT to push the signal to HA, but this seems like a convoluted way of doing things? Is this the only way, or is that info outdated?

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u/JadedSamurai — 11 days ago