I'm just starting to dabble in Home Automation and my first project is to setup some IP cameras around the interior/exterior of my house. I've selected some of the Samsung SmartCams as they seem to work fairly well for me straight out of the box. I'm considering running something like zoneminder from my Ubuntu server but for now Samsung's software works for what I want. These cameras record on a local SD card, so I'll still probably use the Ubuntu server to record as a backup of their rtsp stream, but that seems pretty simple to setup.
My first task is to find a way to detect that myself or my wife are home, and to then send http commands to the cameras to turn off the recording/motion detection of interior cameras. I considered using IFTTT and location from our Android phones, but there doesn't seem to be an easy/reliable way to script things like this with IFTTT. I currently run an Ubuntu server that I'd like to make use of, so maybe there's a way to detect that one of our phones is connected to the Wifi network and then send the commands to the cameras?
Or should I jump in deeper with something like openHAB or home-assistant.io to install on my Ubuntu server?
Future projects:
-automating my motorized blinds (I believe rfxcom makes a controller that can do this, but will it work with my Ubuntu server setup?)
-automating my remote controlled ceiling fans (I'd like to believe something like rfxcom could do this, but from what I've read it may not be that simple?)
My first task is to find a way to detect that myself or my wife are home, and to then send http commands to the cameras to turn off the recording/motion detection of interior cameras. I considered using IFTTT and location from our Android phones, but there doesn't seem to be an easy/reliable way to script things like this with IFTTT. I currently run an Ubuntu server that I'd like to make use of, so maybe there's a way to detect that one of our phones is connected to the Wifi network and then send the commands to the cameras?
Or should I jump in deeper with something like openHAB or home-assistant.io to install on my Ubuntu server?
Future projects:
-automating my motorized blinds (I believe rfxcom makes a controller that can do this, but will it work with my Ubuntu server setup?)
-automating my remote controlled ceiling fans (I'd like to believe something like rfxcom could do this, but from what I've read it may not be that simple?)
