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Home Assistant integration · BetaHome Assistant camera events, analysed locally
Cam-Wise uses Home Assistant as an event layer. When Home Assistant reports a camera event, Cam-Wise picks up the available recording and analyses it locally on your Windows PC. Home Assistant stays your hub; the AI analysis stays in Cam-Wise.
Cam-Wise is not a replacement for Home Assistant · Footage stays local by default
An event route, not a second smart-home platform
Home Assistant is great at knowing when something happened. Cam-Wise adds local AI that decides whether that something is relevant to you. Home Assistant delivers the trigger and the available recording; Cam-Wise does the analysis on your own device.
The proven route today: Ring
The Home Assistant route that is worked out end to end today is built around Ring.
- Ring records an eventYour Ring device detects activity and creates an event with a recording, as it normally does.
- Home Assistant delivers the triggerHome Assistant surfaces that event, which Cam-Wise uses as its signal to act.
- Cam-Wise picks up the available recordingCam-Wise takes the recording that is made available for that event.
- Analysis runs locally on WindowsThe clip is analysed on your own PC with a local AI model. Raw footage does not have to go to a cloud.
- Relevant results go to reviewWhat matches your situation is surfaced for review, and you improve detection by confirming examples.
What stays local
- ✓Raw footage and detection frames
- ✓Your dataset and personal model
- ✓Cloud features only with your explicit opt-in
What you need
- ✓A working Home Assistant setup
- ✓A supported event source (Ring today)
- ✓The free Cam-Wise app for Windows
Start free
Cam-Wise Free lets you connect one camera and build your own local detection. Cam-Wise Plus adds multiple cameras, notifications and a background scanner, which pair well with Home Assistant automations. Plus is rolled out in phases as the payment environment goes live.