Hi well that’s already 1-way audio. So this means you can listen to the doorbell.
I’ve created a post on the reolink forums to ask the question directly to reolink as @p.deelen mentioned:
Initially I asked if onvif profile T was supported for the poe doorbell, which was confirmed by reolink. However they didn’t respond to the question of 2-way audio:
That’s why I now created a new forum post about the 2-way audio.
It would be absolutely amazing to have 2-way audio work through onvif profile T, so that we can use scrypted to integrate the doorbell into homekit.
For me that’s the last little piece to make this doorbell the absolute winner!
I must admit I was disappointed after my first impressions with the Reolink Video doorbell (WiFi).
Posted my complaints in the Reolink reddit topic (here)
Ow yea I saw the reolink reddit post yesterday it’s a small world!
Many thanks for the video. That’s indeed very fast
I received my PoE doorbell, but I still need to install it.
I suppose you just use the onvif plugin in scrypted? And not the reolink plugin, as the doorbell press is not supported in the reolink plugin itself.
And also the reolink on-the-edge person detection is sent through onvif to scrypted I suppose?
Let’s hope reolink fixes the 2-way audio in their onvif implementation. Can’t wait to respond to my doorbell through my iphone/apple watch
I emailed with reolink technical support and they asked their engineers, looks like two way audio via backchannel is coming but not currently supported.
Also about the visitor sensor, I don’t use the camera. sensors in HA as I use the doorbell with frigate, but the visitor sensor in HA is working great.
Allow activating the “quick replies” from Home Assistant: If you want that as well please ask Reolink to enable it in their API. This has many uses. e.g. when you can configure home asistant to send you a notification with a picture when someone presses the doorbell (or even when it detects a person) and the notification can have several options that you can click on for what the speaker should say (e.g. leave the package at the door).
face recognition: When the camera sees a person I have Home Assistant send me a notification with a screenshot. I’d like to be able to not send me those screenshots when it’s my wife etc. Not sure how to do that.
Allow activating the alarm sound from Home Assistant:
2-way audio: would be great to have this working in Home Assistant and Synology Surveillance Station
Full integration with Synology Surveillance Station: (play custom sounds trough the doorbell, detect person, detect doorbell press, 2-way audio) (Form to request Synology).
Weird things about the doorbell:
Important information to make the Reolink work remotely with a VPN if you’ve blocked it from accessing the internet: by default the Reolink app adds the doorbell based on the ‘UID’ rather than it’s IP address and then it only works using the cloud once you have excited the app and open it again. To make sure you add the doorbell based on it’s IP address you need to delete the device if you already added it. Then disable wifi on your smartphone so that you are on mobile data. Then activate the VPN. Then add the doorbell using the option ‘input UID/IP’ then choose the IP option and enter the camera’s IP address.
This night the doorbell gave lots of person detection events (false as there was no-one) and no motion detection events. I don’t understand that as I thought a person detection event would always be preceded by a motion detected event.
When the doorbell switched to Infrared mode and vice-versa it seems to be falsely reported as a motion detected event. That’s a bit amateuristic.
The android app has a major problem on Samsung smartphones. On Samsung smartphones it uses the microphone at the bottom (used to speak when holding the phone to the ear) and not the microphone at the top of the smartphone (used when talking in “speaker mode”).
This update (not released yet officially) Android_ReoLink_4.35.0.7.apk - Google Drive helps a bit with the problem because you can set the audio volume of the built-in speaker.
Would still be far better if it uses the right microphone because I still have to hold my mouth at 1 cm distance from the smartphone so I can’t really watch the screen and talk at the same time.
Not sure if it includes backchannel audio, but I was told there is a firmware update coming soon but it brings new features so is going through additional testing. I still don’t have a clear answer if the firmware will be provided via the reolink download center or just the app.
Thanks a lot I will look into this and in relation to your other post: I have added a link in the last bullet in this post to a newer version of the android app which I got from Reolink (perhaps that’s the new ‘firmware’ you were talking about?):
No, that is not firmware. Firmware refers to an update to the doorbell itself. But the new android app might be needed for other reasons / have fixes as well.
What settings are you using in the reolink doorbell and the scrypted onvif plugin? I’m just using all standard setting, but I see a delay of around 2-3seconds for live view through Homekit. Also the Homekit notification is slower then Reolink. Can I send you a DM to check the settings?
EDIT: ok, my bad. It seems facial recognition was activated what caused the 2-3s delay. Without it, i’s indeed blazing fast!
Lets hope they wil indeed fix it. I contacted the dev team and received another message, I have selected the 3rd party option: I’m sorry that the two-way audio is not available in 3rd software now. Since the feature needs the support of Reolink private protocol. Only with Onvif, RTSP and related protocols, the feature can’t be used.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused. Our engineers tried to work with the engineers of 3rd software to make the feature available on 3rd software.
I’m having the same issue… my wifi doorbell is on firmware v3.0.0.1459_22102806 and I just pressed the bell but the Visitor entity never turned on. I’m on version 0.1.17 of the integration, followed the instructions to set it up and I have ONVIF enabled on the NVR (RLN16-410 v3.0.0.159_21122455).
I did set it up using the NVR host rather than the doorbell directly…could that be the issue?
@Iceman24 / @crzynik thanks for the replies … so basically I need to add every camera as a separate integration to make it work “properly”, is that the idea?
it’s a small world!
