Camera System Question

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I know this isn’t a general tech forum but y’all are the easiest way of reaching biggest accumulation of people that know way more about this stuff than me that I know of.

Anyways, I’m looking to set up a camera system in my apartment that I can operate off of one screen from a tablet or monitor or something idk. So what I need is to have a baby monitor on the baby’s crib and then in the nursery, another camera up in the corner of the room to cover the full room and then couple other cameras for outside and the master bedroom. But I came up with that plan after buying multiple different cameras randomly as the need arose. So I have a random netvue peekababy baby monitor, I have a ring doorbell camera and then a ring indoor camera (for in the corner of the nursery) and then I have a random Kasa WiFi tilt cam that I point outside the window. The problem being all of them are different apps and stuff so I don’t know how or if it’s even possible to set the feeds up all on one screen and I’ve searched for a bundle that comes with security cameras and a baby monitor but I don’t think such thing exists. Then I was planning to do it all on ring but I think even if I got them all on split screen it wouldn’t work because rings live view times out so having a tablet dedicated as a live feed security monitor so I can watch the baby and the other feeds wouldn’t work. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Also for the baby monitor I have a spare fp2 presence sensor I don’t know where to put yet so I was wondering if it would be possible to put it in the master bedroom because the baby sleeps I. Her bassinet next to our bed still so I was curious if I could set up to make different routines based on presence in Zones in the master bedroom. For example the idea I had that started it was fp2 set a zone for the bassinet and when it shows presence in the bassinet run a routine to turn on the tablets split screen view of the cameras or have it run the baby monitor feed when it senses presence. Or something like run a nighttime routine if presence is detected in crib and in the bed and have them as two separate zones. Is that viable and does anyone have any other suggestions or ideas for this set up?

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Just brainstorming here…

With SmartThings you can watch multiple streams at the same time. To get an idea of what it looks like, scroll down this page:

The camera with the best SmartThings integration is the Aeotec Cam 360:

It has enough standard features, but it doesn’t have the AI detection, you probably want to detect a crying baby. The Tapo C225 has AI detection, but the SmartThings integration is lousy:

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Or if you are interested in a system that does not connect to ST and all the limitations that come with it. You can look at other systems such as UniFi Protect. No cloud subscriptions to deal with. You purchase one of their NVRs and add the amount of hard drives of your choice. They even allow viewing 3rd party cameras so you may be able to integrate some of your current cameras. They are having a Holiday sale so good time to check them out @ store.ui.com

If you are an Apple user… you can easily connect to Apple Home through HomeBridge. They also have an Apple TV app for viewing camera feeds.

They have have a module you can connect to monitors or TVs to view camera feeds in case you wanted a dedicated monitor.

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Only complaint or fault some users may have, UniFi does not offer any battery powered cameras.

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Thank you for the suggestions i appreciate it and I will start looking into the csberas you posted. Thank you again

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