Good evening. I’ve got a Reolink doorbell installed now, and the floodlight install scheduled for next week or so. As I get things set up, I want to make things as efficient as possible and follow whatever kind of best practices you all have developed over the years. I have a very new set-up, HA green with Z wave right now, the Sonoff zigbee dongle on the way and a very limited number of devices right now.
First things first, I’m trying to get the doorbell to function as seamlessly as possible for other family members. I have seen that Reolink is an extreme outlier as far as granting non-admin users “walkie-talkie” rights so my family members/guests could interact with people ringing the doorbell, which is unfortunate but options for the local-capable cameras like Reolink are limited and I guess there are always compromises. This isn’t a deal killer, because I’m not worried about the granting of admin privileges to my family per se, I just want them to be able to use the device like they expect, as if it were a Ring camera. So I’m just asking what’s the best way to do that…should I just use my app account to “share” access with them, or should they create their own Reolink account for this purpose? I trust them and they aren’t going o screw around with admin privileges, so I just want things to be easy and seamless for them.
Does this question make sense?
Thank you.