Not sure if the price difference between an alarm and a Home Assistant set-up is much if you keep an eye out for deals.
Given the cost of Raspberry Pis at the moment I can believe that! I think Aqara hubs are a bit cheaper though but not sure if they need internet, presume so.
I'm in the process of de-clouding my Home Assistant setup but fundamentally most key things don't depend on the internet and that's a big attraction of Home Assistant for me: keeping things (and my data) local. Don't have a UPS but am planning to add one and prices have come down a lot since last time I looked.
I picked up a Unifi Cloudkey Gen2+ controller recently to replace a Raspberry Pi which was running my Unifi controller and I'm planning to get a Unifi Protect doorbell and an external camera but no internal cameras. Even when the video will be stored locally I'm not comfortable with internal cameras.
Given the cost of Raspberry Pis at the moment I can believe that! I think Aqara hubs are a bit cheaper though but not sure if they need internet, presume so.
I'm in the process of de-clouding my Home Assistant setup but fundamentally most key things don't depend on the internet and that's a big attraction of Home Assistant for me: keeping things (and my data) local. Don't have a UPS but am planning to add one and prices have come down a lot since last time I looked.
I picked up a Unifi Cloudkey Gen2+ controller recently to replace a Raspberry Pi which was running my Unifi controller and I'm planning to get a Unifi Protect doorbell and an external camera but no internal cameras. Even when the video will be stored locally I'm not comfortable with internal cameras.