NOTE: Unifi Protect support is being promoted in Home Assistant v2022.2 so you won't need this step soon as it'll be included.Get the UniFi Protect 3rd party integration for Home Assistant.I also recommend the Terminal & SSH (9.2.2), File editor (5.3.3) add ons so you can see what's happening.You'll need a GitHub account and it'll clone custom integrations directly into your local HA. This enables 3rd party 'untrusted' integrations directly from GitHub.So this seems like a perfect job for Home Assistant. However, I lose any Alexa integration and this nice little 'someone is at the door' announcement. I don't want to pump video to outside services, so this doorbell integrates nicely with my existing Unifi installation and records video to a local hard drive. However, I swapped out the Ring for a Unifi Protect G4 Doorbell for a number of reasons. It was a lovely little integration that worked nicely in our lives. I used to have an Amazon Ring Doorbell that would integrate with Amazon Alexa and when you pressed the doorbell it would say 'Someone is at the front door' on our all Alexas. But to be clear, it all still runs inside your house and not in the cloud. Optionally, you can pay Nabu Casa $5 for remote (outside your house) network access via transparent forwarding.

That said, you can also run in a Docker Container, on a Synology or other NAS, or just on Windows or Mac in the background. I believe setting up Home Assistant on a Pi is the best and easiest way to get started. Even better I put a Power Over Ethernet (PoE) hat on my Rpi so I have just one network wire into my hub that powers the Pi. I've got my stuff running on a Raspberry Pi 4. Not in a cloud or the cloud or anyone's cloud. What's the best part? This all runs LOCALLY. But integrations and 3rd party code can give you details like 'Is the Living Room dark' or 'is there motion in the driveway.' From these building blocks, you can then build your own IFTTT (If This Then That) automations, combining not just two systems, but any and all disparate systems. Temperature, Light Status, sure, that's easy Home Automation. You'll find that any internally connected device you have likely has an Integration available. I was amazed at the devices/objects that Home Assistant discovered that it could automate. Questions like 'is Scott home' or 'what's Scott's phone battery' can be associated with Scott the Entity in the Home Assistant Dashboard. Even people! You can declare that any name:value pair that (for example) your phone can expose can be consumable by Home Assistant. Every object (entity) in your house that is even remotely connected can become programmable. Home Assistant can quickly become a hobby that overwhelms you. I've interviewed the creator of Home Assistant on my podcast and I encourage you to check out that chat. I am not a Home Assistant expert, but it's clearly a massive and powerful ecosystem.

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