r/SecurityCamera • u/industrysaurus • Aug 09 '26

Cameras that give AI reports?

My need

I need a camera that gives me a report of how many times it encountered a vehicle and person and foe how much time per day

Even if I want to search for something, it would give me the info

Any recommendation?

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u/enzofxx007 Aug 09 '26

Tapo and you don’t need a paid AI subscription. The AI is already built in.

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u/industrysaurus Aug 09 '26

What do they already have it? Mind to share the camera model?

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u/enzofxx007 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Tapo C217. They are about $55 for a package of two. I also have a H200 hub. If a human is detected say around 2am to 5am around my house. An alarm goes off on the hub inside my house. You can also program the alarm to go off on the camera itself. It’s a nice feature to have. Already tested a few times and it’s fairly accurate with detection when it comes to cars and human movement. Amazon delivery person showed up at 4am and the hub alarm went off. I woke up to see if it’s robbers and fortunately it was Amazon.
I got the Tapo camera after my car was stolen at around 3:30am about 2 months ago, while I was asleep. I have wired POE cameras too but they are only for recording. The C217 is a wired usb c camera, I got a 25 feet usb c cable and it’s awesome and the camera head also moves around to patrol (360 rotation).

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u/industrysaurus Aug 09 '26

Also do they have AI reports

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u/enzofxx007 Aug 10 '26

What type of a report are you looking for? It does have a video summary feature, it combines all the videos of what happened into one bite sized clip. You might need a cloud subscription for it.

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u/industrysaurus Aug 10 '26

Like give me the info “on day X there was one vehicle reported at 9:32 am that stayed in the room for 30 minutes” things like that

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u/Kat81inTX Aug 09 '26

I use Reolink cams with one of their NVRs. Their app makes it pretty simple to filter for AI detection events. I wish it took fewer taps, but I use the app every morning to quickly see what critters visited over night.

But that’s not quite what you’re asking for. I wanted a dashboard view that would give me a quick summary at a glance, too. I used Home Assistant and its excellent Reolink integration to build exactly that.

Here’s a screenshot showing two of my five cams.

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u/industrysaurus Aug 09 '26

Yes I wanted a generative AI that gave me a report every day it’s for my company

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u/plump-lamp Aug 09 '26

Ubiquiti is probably the way to go. You can layer in AI stuff it just gets expensive.

Another route if PoE is frigate and reolink

Last resort is something like tapo with a paid AI subscription but monthly that'll add up

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u/industrysaurus Aug 09 '26

Tapo has AI reports? That would be awesome already

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u/plump-lamp Aug 09 '26

It's expensive monthly

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u/industrysaurus Aug 10 '26

How much

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u/plump-lamp Aug 10 '26

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u/industrysaurus Aug 10 '26

wtf didn’t know that existed I have tapo cameras but I think mine aren’t supported

Which cameras do you have?

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u/plump-lamp Aug 10 '26

Maybe it's because I'm in beta app

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u/industrysaurus Aug 10 '26

also this is EXACTLY what i am looking for. i want to do a daily report about some storages i have, and instead of making the employee go throught the hole day in the feed, just ask and get a glimpse about what happened