I have my first Reolink camera (CX810) integrated into Home Assistant, and so far it is working well, a very easy setup. But I am struggling to understand what the integration does in HA and in the camera.
Reolink firmware is up to date
In the Media tab in HA I now have a Reolink button that takes me to a link for my camera that opens into a folder per day which contains media clips for each piece of motion captured.
My questions are: where are these files located , are they downloaded to my HA device (and do I need to manage space on that device)
Or are they links to what is on the camera?
Secondly when i try and play these clips nothing happens I just get an empty media player box with greyed controls. I can go to the Reolink app and play the files there so I know they exist, but is there something I need to do to get them to play in HA?
Also have the same questions, I feel like these are on the sd card as I can play them on my pc but not on mobile data, also the 3 cameras missing sd cards are not showing there.
At this point I think there is no way to have the media in home assistant, I’ve been spoiled by the scrypted nvr addon.
Likely I’m going to create a card link to the reolink app for viewing events and using the surveillance card for live view.
Locally I think I can make a web frame to the nvr address but away from home will need to be the reolink app I think
Yes I agree Suzy, after using it for a week the data must be on the SD card.
It is available to play via the media tab in HA but strangely this can be quite intermittent, sometimes it plays and other times its just greyed, this is on PC and on mobile (browser not app).