Hello!
I have a few battery-powered Reolink cameras around my property, linked with the Home Hub. I’m trying to set them up to send me a snapshot when motion is detected. This works, though the snapshot action seems to be delayed. Most of the time, the image I receive is around 10s after the motion event - it’s often too late to see what may have triggered the motion.
My theory is that the cameras are busy recording the event, and take the snapshot after they are done.
Currently I have set up the recording inside the Reolink app and set the schedule to be detecting 24/7. Then I use the PIR switch entity inside HA to turn on and off the cameras based on a schedule I have set up using scripts in HA. I wanted to change this to allow HA to also control the recordings - create a script that, when motion is detected, it takes a snapshot and turns on manual record for 20s. I hoped this would solve the delayed snapshots issue. Unfortunately it seems that the cameras do not do motion detection when the ‘enable record’ switch in the Reolink app is turned off.
Does anyone have a way of getting the battery-powered cameras to take a snapshot before a recording? Or am I being an idiot - can HA take a snapshot at the same time as the cameras are recording?
Thanks!