re: General security camera discussion (was "Unifi Protect security cameras")

So having seen that cameras alone do not deter criminals, and notifications may not be wanted at all times, I'm going to take my home video surveillance a couple steps further with Home Assistant and WLED.

I believe Protect has a nice HA integration, and for other systems you could use Frigate I guess, but obviously we need to get person detection into HA via whatever avenue. From there it's a really simple automation to fire off a particular WLED preset (red and blue flashing lights sounds good). I'm gonna light up my whole fricking lot next time some a-hole comes around. Might even add some audio "get the *frick* away from my house".