Hub for home intrusion events
I am interested in adding one or more of the following items to my home environment for home intrusion detection:
* Contact sensor (for front door, windows, or both)
* Motion detection sensor in one or more rooms of the home
I am currently experimenting with the C210 and am mostly satisfied with it. My only concern thus far is that I've been trying to set up an automation so that when the camera's motion detectors go off, the camera comes out of privacy mode. I have not been able to do so reliably, but even if I were, this is the kind of thing where I would prefer to have at least double redundancy, more likely triple (i.e., if the front door opens OR if the living room motion sensor goes off, THEN wake all cameras).
So, questions. Are the Tapo door sensor and/or the motion detector able to bring the cameras out of privacy mode? If so, will a Tapo hub also be required to get all the pertinent devices to talk to each other? And if so, too, which model will I need?
The past several months have been quite an adventure (and not an inexpensive one, either). I had no idea the smart home market was so heavily fragmented. I would have thought that putting together a suite of devices to do what I wanted would be a reasonably straightforward matter. Nope! But I'm hopeful that a Tapo ecosystem will finally give me what I'm looking for.