Reolink camera and HA

Hello everyone,

I’m fairly new to homeassistant, even if I looked around quite a bit before diving in.

I set up a homeassistant test server on a virtual box vm on windows. I can access it without problem.

I Bought an Argus track outdoor battery camera. I know it has’nt RTSP, so I know I won’t be able to access the video stream on HA, at least not easealy. I’m ok with that, I just want to have access to the light, siren, etc.

My camera is detected in the Reolink addon in HA. When I try to connect to it, with the correct login and IP adress, it doesn’t work. I tried, without port, with port 80 or 443, HTTP or HTTPS. Nothing seems to work.

Am I doing something wrong ? Or just because the camera doesn’t have RSTP HA can’t access it, even tough I’m not interested in the image stream right now ? If, I deeply regret my purchase…

Thank you in advance.

You can buy the Home Hub and that has RTSP capabilities…

I precisely don’t need RSTP :). I don’t want to manage video stream on HA, I just want to have access to the accessories, i.e lamp, siren, etc. I don’t know if it’s possible, and I don’t know if that’s why i can’t connect to my camera with or if i’m doing something wrong.

I hope you did go through the documentation around password rules. There are restrictions to special characters.

I understand. However according to the following link, the Home Hub gives you access to the features like any other normal battery camera:

“The Home Hub will act as a bridge between the battery cameras and Home Assistant, preserving battery life, and all the features of the battery cameras will be available just like the regular battery cameras.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/reolinkcam/comments/1do2wmo/reolink_home_hub_supports_home_assistant/

And in the integration page it also confirms what works with the home hub:

Supported functionality:

Camera streams

Binary sensors
Depending on the supported features of the camera, binary sensors are added for:

  • Motion detection+
  • Visitor+ (Doorbell presses)
  • AI person detection+
  • AI vehicle detection+
  • AI pet detection+
  • AI animal detection+
  • AI face detection+
  • AI package detection+
  • Sleep status

Number entities
Depending on the supported features of the camera, number entities are added for:

  • Optical zoom control
  • Focus control
  • Floodlight turn on brightness
  • Volume (Camera)
  • Alarm volume (Home Hub)
  • Message volume (Home Hub)
  • Chime volume
  • Guard return time
  • Motion sensitivity
  • PIR sensitivity
  • AI face sensitivity
  • AI person sensitivity
  • AI vehicle sensitivity
  • AI package sensitivity
  • AI pet sensitivity
  • AI animal sensitivity
  • AI face delay*
  • AI person delay*
  • AI vehicle delay*
  • AI package delay*
  • AI pet delay*
  • AI animal delay*
  • Auto quick reply time
  • Auto track limit left
  • Auto track limit right
  • Auto track disappear time
  • Auto track stop time
  • Day night switch threshold*
  • Image brightness* (default 128)
  • Image contrast* (default 128)
  • Image saturation* (default 128)
  • Image sharpness* (default 128)
  • Image hue* (default 128)

Floodlight turn on brightness controls the brightness of the floodlight when it is turned on internally by the camera (see Floodlight mode select entity) or when using the Floodlight light entity.

When the camera is not moved and no person/pet/animal/vehicle is detected for the Guard return time in seconds, and the Guard return switch is ON, the camera will move back to the guard position.

When a Reolink doorbell is pressed the quick reply message from the Auto quick reply message select entity will be played after Auto quick reply time seconds, unless the Auto quick reply message is set to off.

If the Auto tracking switch entity is enabled, and a object disappears from view OR stops moving for the Auto track disappear time/Auto track stop time, the camera goes back to its original position.

Day night switch threshold determines at which light level the camera switches from Color to Black & white. This value only applies if the Day night mode select is on Auto.

Button entities
Depending on the supported features of the camera, button entities are added for:

PTZ stop
PTZ left
PTZ right
PTZ up
PTZ down
PTZ calibrate
PTZ zoom in*
PTZ zoom out*
Guard go to
Guard set current position
Restart*

PTZ left, right, up, down, zoom in and zoom out will continually move the camera in the respective position until the PTZ stop is called or the hardware limit is reached.

Select entities
Depending on the supported features of the camera, select entities are added for:

  • Floodlight mode (Off, Auto, Schedule)
  • Day night mode (Auto, Color, Black&White)
  • PTZ preset
  • Play quick reply message
  • Auto quick reply message
  • Auto track method (Digital, Digital first, Pan/Tilt first)
  • Doorbell LED (Stay off, Auto, Auto & always on at night)
  • HDR* (Off, On, Auto)
  • Chime motion ringtone
  • Chime person ringtone
  • Chime visitor ringtone
  • Hub alarm ringtone
  • Hub visitor ringtone

Confirmed with Reolink also:

For example, the siren, the spotlight, etc. Are these functions available when using the Home Hub?
10:30 AM

Elsa says: When home hub connecting the Argus Track, it will not affect the Argus Track function, it ca still work normally.

Elsa says: all the function stil work

Colton says: Okay… so using the floodlight, alarm etc will all be functional when connected to the Home Hub.

Elsa says: yes

Colton says: Okay. Thank you

Hum, ok. I didn’t plan on buying a home hub, but i’ll see. It’s sad, i can’t apparently access my camera via HA just to tweak siren or light for example, and more importantly to use the sensors (motion detection for example) to trigger alarm automation.

For what it’s worth, it’s on sale right now for $79.99