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Comment by Calvin02 | Hacker News Reader

Apple & Google capricious integration policies are often user hostile.

Seems like it would be much better to let people decide what quality they want from their doorbell rather than mandating it as part of the integration.

I don't want to store 1080p 30fps video all the time and have it consume the entire 50gb that I buy with iCloud.

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HKSV doesn't use any storage, but I'm not sure if that's available in the cheapest plan. I use scrypted to push all my UniFi cameras into HomeKit for free recordings and identification of people/packages.

Looks like it's unlimited only on the higher plan -

For $0.99 per month, iCloud+ will offer 50GB of iCloud storage and support for recording video from one HomeKit Secure Video camera. For $2.99 per month, iCloud+ will offer 200GB of storage and support for up to five HomeKit Secure Video cameras. For $9.99 per month, you get 2TB of iCloud storage and support for unlimited HomeKit Secure Video cameras.

Does scrypted require a HomeKit hub to support saving to HKSV? I have that set up on my amcrest doorbell but haven’t figured out how to get the notifications and HKSV to work.

I'm not too sure of any exact requirements, I've got like 7 devices that qualify as HomeKit hubs in my HomeKit house so I can't easily test that for you. Can you see the camera in HomeKit, it's just not doing the recording and notifications?

Yes that is right. There’s also a message saying I need one when trying to enable HKSV, but scrypted documentation doesn’t call out the need for one.

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