Using the phone as a beacon drains battery like stupid in my case. My ble ibeacons are tied to HA, I don’t use the phone for any kind of beacon tx or rx.
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Using the phone as a beacon drains battery like stupid in my case. My ble ibeacons are tied to HA, I don’t use the phone for any kind of beacon tx or rx.
Try the motioneye integration. Reliable recording on motion and it stores the videos on your HA instance. You can set notification automations when something happens. For example, I have an automation that notifies all of our phones and messages me on matrix when motion occurs on a specific camera.
I don’t want to make any specific recommendations but any ibeacon signal emitting BLE beacon works perfectly with HA’s default bluetooth integration, Bluetooth Low Energy integration and ESPresense.
Your NFC reader on your phone reads the data on the tag whether you believe it or not. If you have writeable tags, someone can just overwrite your tag rendering it useless to you until you fix it.
I liked nfc for that as well but then realized anyone that finds it can just overwrite your tags. No one can overwrite my bluetooth beacons.
Anything that broadcasts ibeacon format will work flawlessly in HA.
I started with NFC tags but whipping out my phone everytime I needed to scan a tag got annoying so I switched to bluetooth beacons. I have automations fired by button taps and proximity. MUCH easier and less hassle.
Are you from the future?
Frigate is great if you want unreliable human and object detection. Blue Iris is on windows so that is an automatic DQ. Motioneye just works.
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