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Way back I was running ONVIF to MQTT software and found that the video motion detection was too sensitive outside. This would be the same as running Home Assistant with an ONVIF add on and configuring it for motion. You can run Home Assistant on a RPI and trigger audio output chimes or even...

Personally here do not like the video motion algorithms. Especially for outdoor use. Went back to using outdoor combo PIR/Microwave motion detectors. While they are connected to the alarm they are used mostly for automation notifications and not to trigger the alarm.

See if you can see the camera with the ONVIF application. IE: ONVIF device manager and look see if the motion is in the ONVIF configuration. Then go to using Home Assistant (free) using the ONVIF add on or the Hikvision Add on. You have to put HA on the same network. Create automation...

Wired alarm panel connected to the camera triggers. I used software to generate MQTT from my Hikvision DB. Software integration to alarm panel. Personally here in the early 2000's used Optex combo outdoor cameras wired to alarm panel. Automation used SAPI TTS for whole home audio and...

Using it today with the little M5 echos. Testing TTS now out of the audio output of Home Assistant to the house audio which works a bit better than the little voice from the M5's. I like it better than the Amazon Echo's all over the house and being non internet dependant for VR / TTS...

Intel NIC. Personally installed BI (to test) on Windows Server 2016. I am more of a Linux person than Windows here.

Disconnect the transformer and check the AC power on it with a voltmeter. Purchase a hot spare and test DB on the workbench. I have read here of issues with the power module and or defective power modules. I do not know of a way to test it. Thinking the power module is a Hikvision DS-KPB01...

I agree to the above two posts. In addition I would take it to the workbench and power it up with a spare DB power supply and see if it does the same thing. Then maybe take it apart and check the battery. Here since taking off the cloud and running it through an HA Proxy have not had any...

Helped a buddy here who built a new home on his farm 10 years ago. He was cheap and went to using cat6 between homes which is working fine today. That said I originally suggested a wireless bridge to his apartment building in town 13 miles away. This is related to internet. His home is about...

I have a few original Optex analog combo cameras here. Built very well and I was able to install newer IP 4k 38mm camera boards in them. I did utilize cheap chinese pigtails for my connections. The plastic used for the Optex cameras has never deteriorated outside. You can probably order the...

eBay item number:374963338550 I used these to convert my old analog Optex combo's to 4k IP cameras.

Replace it....found the combo cable on Ebay... CCTV POE IP network Camera PCB video power cable RJ45 female connectors around $8. (as little as $4 plus shipping).

Relating to NVRs most folks use software NVRs. Popular is Blue Iris. I utilize a Linux NVR. Software/ Hardware NVRs typically have software clients to manage them. Wireless / wired clients would have no issues connecting to an NVR. Cameras should be connected via Ethernet and not Wireless...

The Leviton OmniPro 2 panel is not longer being sold. It was much less in cost when it was being sold by Leviton. Here never used Windows / Android tablets with batteries mounted on walls. I did have a couple of Android POE powered in wall tablets and my tabletops all work via POE. I only...

Here using an OmniPro 2 system with Home Assistant and Homeseer and Wintel embedded tabletop touchscreens. Camera wise lately its been Amcrest.

My NTP time has been right on my Doorbell using the default NTP server that I cannot change. I think PFSense just sees a request on port 1,2,3 and re routes it to the server. That said because of your post I put the server name in the PFSense hosts file and rerouted it anyhow. Still using old...

Home Assistant Proxy server mentioned here: Home Assistant Proxy Server Since starting to use it have had no bounces of the doorbell.

Here have kept the firmware the same and today use an RTSP proxy server for feed.

I am a happy camper here with T-Mobile which replaced my AT&T grandfathered account a few years ago. I am using a LTE-combo modem as a back up to my XFinity ISP. The LTE combo provides a WAP, Switch, router-firewall, RJ11 (phone connection) Bridge connection to PFSense firewall. 5 SIM cards...

TIOC...understood and thank you. Old here (retired) now and absorbing AI technology. ;) It's a garage with a steel door to the house with deadbolt. That said using earlier technology (first outdoor IP cameras) outdoors and outdoor Optex PIR sensors went to turning on all exterior lighting...

Here using an Amcrest PT 4MP camera for the standard 2 car garage. In the old house with 3 car garage used a 28mm lens dome mount camera. Trying something new with this setup using TP-Link PLC WLAN device with two Ethernet ports. Works fine. The WLAN part is for the myQ system which also...

@David L I have never powered or tested the Doorbell with DC power.

Great news on the Doorbell working with the Tasmota RF-433 bridge. Currently using a couple of Sonoff outdoor 433Mhz PIRs with the bridge and they have worked fine now over a year.

Much fun back then....and very easy to take over trunk lines. I had a "old" Commodore Pet computer as a BBS connected to 6 ventel modems connected to payphone (lines in a building I owned) in the 1980's Easy stuff at the time. It was just a hobby and never related to work.

Here use two Way2Call boxes originally on two copper lines and now on two voip lines. I can do anything with incoming calls here. For a bit in the early 2000's would send the doorbell ring to the telephones CID. I can also change my outgoing CID here with the same box. I played a bunch...

Via the Android app. The old version of the Hikvision app only works with the base Hikvision old stuff and nothing related to the Android / IPhone (cell phone stuff). You can look at the cell phone stuff (ONVIF - mycellphonemodule) with the ONVIF application that runs in Windows and see the...

Yeah here do not use any of the phone apps and have no dependencies on any of my 5 cell accounts. I have them set up such that when they are off caller gets a message that the phone is disconnected. Use GV to phones and home VOIP...which works for me...

I could never adjust the motion detection correctly as it was either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. I abandoned the effort and went to an outdoor PIR on the front porch facing the door from above. Works well this way. That said Amazon delivery folks never ring the doorbell and...

Software typically is updated. Firmware is typically not updated. Some folks like to tinker with their software and some prefer never to touch it. It is up to you what you want to do. Personally I like software because I have an IT background and like to tinker.

Before the Video Doorbell stuff used an Optex outdoor PIR / Camera facing the door at a right angle. Additionally added Geophone motion detection under the cement walk. I had no issues with the wired configuration. I do not like or ever have liked using wireless for video. That is me. The...