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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Bran_Solo on 2026-03-21 18:15:19+00:00.
I'm a few years out of the home automation game and just closed on a new house. It looks like since I've been away, everyone has moved from Hubitat to Home Assistant and there's some great dedicated hardware for it now. Awesome!
When I was last a homeowner I had some Eufy outdoor cameras + floodlights that worked reasonable well, except the people detection could not be used as as trigger for events on other devices. My new home has a very dark driveway area and I'd like to be able to implement some logic like "when a human is detected, ensure that several lights are turned on for at least x seconds after human detection ends" and there's a pretty good chance some of the lights will come from a different ecosystem like Lutron or TP-Link.
I've come up dry with some preliminary research. Is there a go-to camera system recommended for this? I've seen some workarounds to try to get this stuff to work with Eufy but it feels a bit hacky and I'm seeing mixed reports about reliability and latency.