Hello all. Glad I found you. Looks like a good source of info.
I'd like to set up a camera on a driveway for the purpose of sending images of vehicles that are coming up or going down the driveway to mobile devices. I have a Home Assistant instance running at this location and can handle the alert of the mjpeg image image already. I can use an RTSP stream if necessary but it doesn't work as well.
The driveway is about 1/4 mile long. There is a creek about 400 yards from the house with lots of trees. At the creek there is a driveway alerting system that transmits a wireless signal to a receiver in the house to play a tone. My first thought was to put a camera on the house with a significant zoom lens focused on the creek alert sensor. Then when it fires, capture an image and send it to the mobile devices through Home Assistant. I also considered that the motion detection in the camera would be much better at actually capturing the vehicle instead of before or after the vehicle passed.
There is no power at the creek but I could set up a solar panel and battery to power the camera and some motion lights for illumination at night. That would mean a wireless link over that distance too. I'm not a big fan of wireless, which is why I was leaning toward a camera on the house (POE).
I'm a big believer in not reinventing the wheel. I suspect many of you have been through this already. If you care to share your experiences and opinions, I'll gladly absorb them in order to keep from making a bunch of the same mistakes.
I'd like to set up a camera on a driveway for the purpose of sending images of vehicles that are coming up or going down the driveway to mobile devices. I have a Home Assistant instance running at this location and can handle the alert of the mjpeg image image already. I can use an RTSP stream if necessary but it doesn't work as well.
The driveway is about 1/4 mile long. There is a creek about 400 yards from the house with lots of trees. At the creek there is a driveway alerting system that transmits a wireless signal to a receiver in the house to play a tone. My first thought was to put a camera on the house with a significant zoom lens focused on the creek alert sensor. Then when it fires, capture an image and send it to the mobile devices through Home Assistant. I also considered that the motion detection in the camera would be much better at actually capturing the vehicle instead of before or after the vehicle passed.
There is no power at the creek but I could set up a solar panel and battery to power the camera and some motion lights for illumination at night. That would mean a wireless link over that distance too. I'm not a big fan of wireless, which is why I was leaning toward a camera on the house (POE).
I'm a big believer in not reinventing the wheel. I suspect many of you have been through this already. If you care to share your experiences and opinions, I'll gladly absorb them in order to keep from making a bunch of the same mistakes.