HomeAssistant and Reolink Doorbell POE

elkropac · June 6, 2023, 9:09pm

Probably, just fighting with it myself. It would be great, if reolink integration provided way to set custom url without changing configuration of whole home assistant to http. It would be possible to create http reverse proxy for the doorbell only

phantomdez · June 8, 2023, 7:01pm

Just got my doorbell and I installed the official ReoLink integration. What I cannot seem to determine is what does the Jimstar integration have that the official has. Also my previous doorbell was a unifi G4 Doorbell and I had event listener for the doorbell to trigger notifications. Does the reolink doorbell have this or do I just watch for state changes on the detection sensor?

mnpg1 · June 9, 2023, 7:46pm

HI, i recommand you to use the official reolink integration instead of the Jimstar integration (i know he do a lot for the community) but more cameras are available in the official reolink integration to control them.
Regards

Tequila-dev · June 9, 2023, 9:37pm

Is there a way to send TTS / prerecorded audio messages to the doorbell?

crzynik · June 9, 2023, 9:38pm

Yes, this can be done with go2rtc GitHub - AlexxIT/go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc.

DJSmile · June 14, 2023, 12:00pm

Awesome share! Was looking for a good solution and this works perfectly on Android.
Only thing you need to check if the home assistant app has the correct rights.

tfmeier · June 25, 2023, 4:19am

In the market for a doorbell and found this topic. What are the shortcomings of the Wifi version? While I have a PoE switch I dont have any Ethernet at the spot where this would go so the Wifi version would have to be my route.

At the same time I still would like face recognition (Frigate?) and the other bells and whistles. Is that possible ?

mhoogenbosch · June 25, 2023, 8:48am

Wifi edition is WiFi with shortcomings and positives alike.

Frigate works well but face recognition is difficult , not because of reolink but because of face recognition.

iliyan · June 25, 2023, 8:48pm

I don’t think the WiFi version has shortcomings, compared to the PoE version. In the sense that it supports both PoE and WiFi, so it’s more flexible. I’ve been using mine on WiFi for a couple of months now, and with the latest firmware it works flawlessly with Scrypted in HomeKit as a doorbell with all features (two-way audio, recording, etc).

tfmeier · June 25, 2023, 9:45pm

Thanks @mhoogenbosch, @iliyan that makes makes sense.

While I have data cables in most rooms around the house I didn’t even know the PoE existed when I built the house

CaNiBuS · June 26, 2023, 6:10am

2 way audio is still not working with the normal HA integration right?

I also have another question about automation, I try to turn on the lights at the door at night when motion is detected, the problem is when the light turns off after some seconds and it is getting dark again, the reolink detects motion for quite some time and turns on the light again

Maybe someone has some nice automations and settings regarding Motion, People and automations to share?

quizzical · June 27, 2023, 2:20pm

wrong-ish
In this post of mine you can see what I did

github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc

2-way audio on Reolink Video Doorbell

opened 05:00AM - 04 Apr 23 UTC

luisiam

enhancement

The latest FW 1859 enables 2-way audio via ONVIF profile T. I checked with Happy…timesoft ONVIF client and 2-way audio works. Is there any chance to get it working in go2rtc? Output from info page ``` { "producers": [ { "type": "RTSP active producer", "url": "rtsp://192.168.10.21//", "remote_addr": "192.168.10.21:554", "user_agent": "go2rtc/1.3.1", "medias": [ "video, recvonly, H.264 High 5.1", "audio, recvonly, MPEG4-GENERIC/16000" ], "receivers": [ "96 H264, bytes=129455539, senders=1", "97 MPEG4-GENERIC/16000, bytes=1984536, senders=1" ], "recv": 132603331 }, { "type": "RTSP passive producer", "url": "rtsp://localhost:8554/fb75e35d718d1e0379580b00d5fcc0e7", "remote_addr": "127.0.0.1:43364", "user_agent": "ffmpeg/go2rtc", "medias": [ "audio, recvonly, OPUS/48000/2" ], "receivers": [ "96 OPUS/48000/2, bytes=2800207, senders=1" ], "recv": 2949215 } ], "consumers": [ { "type": "RTSP passive consumer", "url": "rtsp://localhost:8554/doorbell_test?audio", "remote_addr": "127.0.0.1:43354", "user_agent": "go2rtc/ffmpeg", "medias": [ "audio, sendonly, ANY" ], "senders": [ "96 MPEG4-GENERIC/16000, bytes=1984536, receivers=1" ], "send": 2046072 }, { "type": "WebRTC/WebSocket async passive consumer", "remote_addr": "tcp4 prflx 192.168.10.183:65337 related :0", "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/111.0.1661.62", "medias": [ "video, sendonly, VP8, RTX, VP9, H264, AV1, RED, ULPFEC, FLEXFEC-03", "audio, recvonly, OPUS/48000/2, RED/48000/2, G722/8000, PCMU/8000, PCMA/8000, CN/8000, TELEPHONE-EVENT/48000, TELEPHONE-EVENT/8000", "audio, sendonly, OPUS/48000/2, RED/48000/2, G722/8000, PCMU/8000, PCMA/8000, CN/8000, TELEPHONE-EVENT/48000, TELEPHONE-EVENT/8000" ], "receivers": [ "111 OPUS/48000/2, bytes=812126, senders=0" ], "senders": [ "96 H264, bytes=124447151, receivers=1", "96 OPUS/48000/2, bytes=2679873, receivers=1" ], "recv": 1054116, "send": 128596160 } ] } ```

ian1182 · June 29, 2023, 4:05pm

Whilst the WiFi version of the doorbell does come with an ethernet port it’s not POE compliant. So it can be connected via a LAN cable but requires a power adapter. That can be either the supplied adapter or via an existing doorbell transformer.

The POE model does not come with any power adapter.

rice12 · July 7, 2023, 7:03am

just got the POE version setup with the official integration. So far it’s working great except for doorbell presses.

Any tips on how to get doorbell press detection working? I’ve already got a reverse proxy going for HA and I’ve verified network connectivity.

I’m on firmware version v3.0.0.2017_23041202 which is what shipped from the factory. Based on the info from a few months ago, special firmware which exposed the “visitor” event in ONVIF was needed, but the google drive link above is dead. Does anyone know if the latest firmwares still need to be downgraded?

Thanks!!

EDIT: Ooops, nevermind. Doorbell presses are registering now (not sure why though).

skynet01 · July 10, 2023, 7:09pm

The google drive link you are talking about (mine) has now outdated firmware so I took it down. There is a new firmware (v2033 vs yours 2017) you can download from the official Reolink site now.

gohigher14 · July 12, 2023, 2:34pm

Can someone tell me how to get rid of the delay of about 30 seconds when pushing a live stream of the doorbell to my google nest hub? I already installed webrtc , so my video format is better to stream it faster. In a picturen entity card , i have no delays at all. It’s only when streaming the feed to my google hub.

PasqualeZito · July 13, 2023, 5:24am

Hi Rice12,

I am in the process of setting this up and I’m struggling to get the notifications working are you able to assist me? or send me some screenshots of your config?

Thanks mate!

rice12 · July 13, 2023, 8:43am

Sure thing. Which part are you stuck on? We can go through it step by step.

If it’s doorbell press notifications (Visitor switch below), one thing you’ll have to do is update your home assistant to the latest version. There was a recent patch which helped improve responsiveness. You’ll also need to ensure the doorbell has access to the internet. I don’t have access to the setup screenshots, but you’ll also need to make sure your HA install is accessible via http, not https since the reolink can’t transmit locally over SSL.

PasqualeZito · July 14, 2023, 12:56am

Thanks Rice12 - is there anyway I can DM you? dont want to make the thread massive haha!

I have an automation setup that when the doorbell is pressed I can get an alert and a screenshot:

Is this the correct way to achieve this? I have read the article regarding 2 way audio and will need to do that process im assuming.

thanks,

yuval221183 · July 24, 2023, 7:02am

quizzical:

1: yes that automation is made to work on Android. Have a look at the Home Assistant Companion app documentation whether this feature also works on Iphone or not and if so what needs to change.
2: I have created my own rather complex process to automate the sending of any type of notification to my android phone. It’s a bit too complex for sharing and wouldn’t work on you iphone. So the basic idea is that in the ‘define parameters’ node you have everything you need to send a notification to your phone in whatever way you prefer. The easiest option to do is is do add a call service node after that which calls upon the notification service using the parameters in the ‘define parameters’ node. How exactly the formatting works for the iphone I’m not sure. For android it looks like this:

HI

I bought the product and I really like it :), I also work in front of Nod Red. Can you share the full code