How to integrate Reolink cameras into Home Assistant?

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redoing my camera integration into my home assistant.

I am asing myself now if I should use “reolink-integration” or via rtsp or (as I plan frigate) go2rtc.

Any hints?

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Hello speed

go2rtc is built into Home Assistant now as one of the default integrations, so it will try to use it for every camera feed if available, fall back to slower if not… If you want frigate for some of the AI type stuff, then there, but the Reolink integration for cameras is pretty nice currently.

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Thanks @Sir_Goodenough ,
I plan to use a frigate in a proxmox container and am wondering if traffic-wise it is better to use that frigate container for go2rtc and connect home assistant to that firgate container to get the streams or have 2 streams going to frigate and home assistant (using the reolink integrations)

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The answer is in your name here, speed master.

If frigate is running on something that can crunch video faster, use that. If HA is, use that. Otherwise it don’t much matter. That protocol does like a bit of power to run.

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I use multiple.

The native reolink integration provides information about the camera, feeds etc. For the doorbell it provides the button push etc.

Then I use Frigate to actually record the feed and then take a feed from Frigate to actually provide the video in the dashboards.

You can then use whatever card you like to actually display the video.

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I have the Reolink NVR RLN16-410 and I’m curious if implementing Frigate would add value, which would be in addition to my existing NVR?
I’m comparing features…

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I wanted to add that adding a Reolink RLC-520A camera using the Reolink integration was easy.

I don’t have a Reolink NVR and instead I’m using Frigate. I’m having a hard time finding the RTSP stream format as many resources point towards RTSP streams from NVR.

Would anyone know how to figure out the RTSP stream for a Reolink camera (not NVR)?