Understood.
It is many times all related to the WAF. Here wife wouldn't touch security touchscreens or automation touchscreens for fear that she will debend the house.
@David L runs the LaView App / firmware
doorbell and on his phones while concurrently connecting to
Blue Iris and it works for him using RTSP.
The windows app locks up or the camera itself?
The ONVIF app locks up.
I think though the cloud app uses ONVIF to talk to your doorbell such that if you make changes to your doorbell with the ONVIF app the changes will revert back to the cloud configuration stuff.
What do you get from HA with the ONVIF integration? A sensor with an on/off State?
This and I do not use it much these days for automation triggers.
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Video motion algorithms are better but not really good for outside. Best to use hard sensors outide. Here used combo hardwired Optex combo cameras with PIRs. There is 6 wires connected. 2 for PIR, 2 for night dark switch and 2 for tamper switch plus power to the camera and PIR board.
The
ONVIF to MQTT PIR plugin appeared to reboot/reset my DB sometimes so I quit using it. Also stick to using 2.4Ghz rather than 5Ghz for your DB.