Reolink - a million questions (latency, delay, motion detection integration, recording, fast access)

Third party integrations
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I have a Reolink 520 PoE’d to my network switch. I have a camera card set up in Lovelace on my Ubuntu Plexbox server.

  • How can I get motion detection integrated? Currently it’s just a camera feed.
  • Connection delay: Reolink can load the feed in about <1s. VLC on desktop ~2s. VLC Android ~3-10s. Lovelace ~6s but also can’t be opened automatically, I have to scroll and tap on the camera. Please tell me this is fixable. I’d love to pass a link that just automatically opens up the HA hosted live video feed, and fast.
  • Live latency: Connect times above also match the live delay. Reolink is roughly 0.5s behind live. Lovelace is awful at around 6s. VLC is about 2s behind live. 2s is livable, 6s is unusable.
  • Opening feed automatically: Currently I have a tasker button on my home screen of my phone set to open the rstp link. The RSTP link passing doesn’t actually open it, it just takes me to a playlist of one and makes me hit play on the link I already saved. It’s a pretty crappy Reolink app replacement, honestly.
  • Can I make everything work “in house” and never touch a Reolink server? I’d like to be able to uninstall the Reolink app, tell me router to not let it leave the LAN, and still have all the functionality I currently have. Did I choose the wrong brand?
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Have you also tested with the reolink_dev custom component?

This is what I use with my 4x 410-5mp cams. The delay still is too much for my preference but a little faster than using ffmpeg or generic cam component.

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I have not but I’ll look into it right away.

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Any updates with this? Get it to work satisfactory? What about motion or “person alerts?”

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You may try the WebRTC in the link below, it works for me, and the video is delay about 0.5 sec
For PTZ function, i using another card to control the camera. At 1st you need to install the onvif integrate

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I got the new Reolink integration working from here: GitHub - JimStar/reolink_cctv: Home Assistant Reolink NVR/cameras addon It has motion, person, pet and vehicle notifications.

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Skynet, is The integration working stable and reliable thanks?

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Yep works great and the author updates it often

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Going through https://github.com/JimStar/reolink_cctv/releases that’s mainly because of fixing bugs.

What’s the big advantage compared to the reolink_dev integration? There are many listed @ https://github.com/JimStar/reolink_cctv#most-important-changesimprovements. To me especially when using NVR this integrations seems to be the better choice. For me other points mentioned sound interesting too.

Sometimes I wish authors would team up to build ONE great integration instead of having to test, choose, adapt etc.

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Well now it (/reolink_cctv) is integrated with the main project as of Release 2023.1.0, however, I can’t find enough documentation of if it is a lite version (could of swore i read that somewhere but can’t find now) or the full thing so haven’t upgraded to that release yet.