Omajin Security Chamber

Today I want to talk to you about the Omajin security cameras, which you already know is a second brand of Netatmo that aims to offer more simple and affordable connected domestic products than Netatmo’s originals. The camera I’ve tried works very well as long as you don’t want to integrate it with HomeKit or Home Assistant. Let me tell you a little more.

As I said, Omajin offers cacarros for our smart home at a much more affordable price than the brand-mother Netatmo But in exchange for making some concessions. For example, they have already said that they will not be HomeKit-compatible products and will not use Matter technology, all very low-cost. The devices I’ve been testing the truth is that they’re very good, with a very good finish, they’re not the typical Chinese device that looks more like a plastiquet… but where the real low-cost is in the software part.

The Omajin camera

Omajin has its own application, which is very good because it’s a nice and simple app but I don’t know… they could have used the same Netatmo, so we could have all the devices in one view even if the Omajin ones didn’t integrate with HomeKit.

The camera itself has really liked me.. It has a maximum resolution of 2K although you can lower it to reduce bandwidth and improve battery duration. It also has a PIR motion sensor, so you can only start recording if it has detected movement, as it is not recording all the time. It does not pull services into the cloud, uses a local SD card and you do not need to plug it in because it has a battery that is charged by USB-C.

I can’t tell you the duration of the battery because it’s been MESES. I loaded it when I got the camera, I had it three months of proof, and I returned it without reloading the battery. It’s true that it depends a lot on the times you connect to the camera, if you only look at the image when the PIR sensor warns you that it has detected movement, the rest of the time the camera is actually doing practically nothing, it has the active motion sensor… but little more, so it doesn’t spend almost battery.

Highlights

It has some interesting functions, such as the two-way audio, which allows you to listen to what’s going on in the room as well as to send your own audio, so you can get your kids out of the way so that they can stop jittering and get to read when they’re already in bed… but eye because when you connect to the camera, turn on a little led to indicate that you’re looking through it, so mine were attentive and when they saw the led then they were going to read. If you know them all, you’re a scoundrel. The good thing is by configuration you can disable that led… But something else happens, and it’s that camera. has

night vision that works really wellIt’s pretty impressive, but to use that function, it also activates not what sensor it allows you to see at night, and my children learned to identify when the sensor was activated.

That’s when the paternal couple already entered, which reaches places where configuration and restrictions cannot reach.

I’m telling you, as a simple camera, it’s very good. In fact, the anchorage system that also has a lot of cool, is magnetic And it allows it to be put in almost any position without it falling down even though it is imanted… even outside, because it has an IP65 classification and that allows you to put it in the open.

Integration with… with what?

But the integration thing scratches me a lot. In addition, I don’t understand why they haven’t made it compatible with HomeKit and yes with Google Assistant and Alexa., with those you integrate through the same Omajin app. It’s not a complete integration, but it already allows you to have basic automations so that it gets recorded when you leave home and stuff like that.

I I’ve been fighting to integrate her through Home Assistant… and there’s no way. Man. Home Assistant is able to connect to any camera using RTSP or ONVIF, which are the two transmission standards… but the Omajin camera does not use this. Of course you don’t have any HomeKit or similar code to directly associate it in the Home app. I’ve also tried Scrypted, a tool that exposes cameras that use the RTSP stream so that you can link them to the Home app even if they are not compatible with HomeKit… But nothing, as there is no RTSP because we cannot integrate it.

So if you are a Google Assistant user or Alexa user, you can integrate it through the Omajin app knowing that all this is going on the Internet, that it is not a local integration. If you don’t mind it not being integrated, but You’re looking for a baratite camera for a villa you don’t go to, or to monitor your garage in case someone touches the bike, it’s certainly the ideal camera. But you’ll always have to use the Omajin app. In fact, for the villa they have another camera with a small solar panel and infinite battery, but that’s not yet been tested. In addition, keep in mind that all storage is local, so simply putting a t

You don’t have to pay subscriptions or worry about cloud space… although without a card it also works, you connect to it whenever you want and ready.

For example, my parents have an Aqara camera that points at the door of the house, so see when the cleaning people come in or if they’re on a trip my brother goes into his house for something and things like that. They don’t care whether it’s Aqara, Omajin or Pérez, they’re going to use it only for that without integrating with anything, so this camera could be perfect for them and cheaper than the Aqara I put them a few months ago and that it had to be wired to feed it, while with the Omajin it would have been all much easier.

However, If you want to integrate the camera with the ecosystems you already have and be able to turn on the lights at 20% when the camera detects that you’ve been up to pee at 4 in the morning, then I’m afraid this is not your camera… but hey, the Omajin has a price of less than 100 €and with an infinite battery without having to wire it, which gives you a lot of possibilities like the one I was talking about before the garage, the storage room door or be able to take it to the room you want at a time. Which is already worth it.

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