I can do the same with almost any IP camera and even USB one with low latency and maximum quality the camera can supports. If anyone is interested in such setup I can do a quick write up about or maybe a repo with the configs needed.
Edit: At least on amazon.in I could not find any.
Don't ZigBee and zwave smart plugs work locally only?
But with both zigbee/thread the problem is shifted towards the gateway instead so you'll have to do it yourself / pick one tu trust there. But here I think/hope Thread is going to have better interoperability.
And if you don’t want to deal with the hub potentially being your next issue, you can always throw home assistant on a computer / raspberry pi / whatever and control them locally. If you want remote access when you’re off your network, it’s up to you to figure out how to securely get the bits from your phone to your home assistant server.
And that's not really terribly hard. I run a VPN server at home, and connect from my phone through that.
Dunno if they ship to India, but I'm sure you can find similar products on AliExpress if you search for the same keywords
I wish more manufacturers provided this sort of thing!
These come pre-flashed with Tasmota, which can rudimentarily be controlled via an HTTP API, and fully via MQTT.
Here's a list of all Plugs and Sockets which can be flashed with this firmware: https://templates.blakadder.com/plug.html
they also have bulbs too. Got both setup with Home assistant, seems to work fine.
Now I can control the lights from my bed even when the LAN is down.
Here are my rough notes on the project https://github.com/Yossi/Bluetooth_lightswitch
The fact is that the Hue bridge supports connecting to a cloud for control from anywhere, so they'll advertise that since it's what many people are after. But it works perfectly fine offline, and you can manage it via Home Assistant, for example.
Whatever you do, don't buy TP-Link. Those had local control but they removed it due to "security concerns" in an automatic update. And of course promoting their data mining cloud had nothing to do with it.
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/344691
Look at Shelly devices, they are exactly what you are looking for (in no way affiliated)
I was gifted a new rando chinese IP cam that uses the mobile app. It's not googlable. I've been using as a outside security camera. The camera saves to an SD card continuously, and has a paid option to use the cloud which I did not take. It has a mobile app, KP WIFICAM, which lets me view the feed in real-time even over the Internet.
I can even view or download the past few days of recordings on the SD card from a menu. However, they are separated into chunks of 10 minutes, so I would have to manually download nearly 100 files files (tap, Download, wait to finish, move to next clip) to get a single day of recordings.
How could I automate/simplify the downloading of these clips from the SD cards to my laptop? How is the mobile app listing the recordings and fetching them?
I ran a tool called Agent-DVR and it found the camera feed using a format called ONVIF. So I think the mobile app uses this protocol https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29159422/get-data-from-l... , is there a tool like this available for Linux I could use without spending a couple of days installing a developer environment and writing my own code?
The significant other has 4 different apps for cams. They each have silly issues, sd cards are to small and they all charge wild fees for cloud storage that they didn't disclose before purchase.
I can buy new ones but with the cheaper ones it is more likely a repetition of the mistake made 4 times already.
The software can be 6 times as expensive as the cams and still be entirely worth it.
What I also want is someone in a low wage country watching a wall full of cams cycling from one cam to the next. That service western security companies charge thousands per month for. Robbery right there!
Any thoughts?