Reolink Cameras - HA Activity Log Full of Motion Detections

Configuration
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I have several Reolink cameras. All of them are setup to detect Vehicles, Persons, and Animals. However when I look in the HA Activity log, I am getting constant notifications of Motion detected. I do not care about regular MOTION captures and only care to see Vehicle, Person, and Animal motion. I know it does not hurt anything besides the fact that my activity log is full of these indications.

Is there a way to shut off Reolink reporting these Motion only indications.

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You can disable the entity since you’re not using it. That way, it won’t show up in the log anymore.

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@Idaho947. OMG. I feel so stupid! That is such a great and obvious answer.

Now is it good practice to disable entities that you are not currently using? I have never disabled entities before.

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Yep. Why keep entities you’re not using? They’ll just pollute your install with unwanted event entries & will do so forever if they happen to be LTS entities.

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As another option - instead of disabling the entity entirely, you can configure the recorder to ignore events from that entity. It will let you keep the entity so you can use it, but event history won’t be saved. I do this for things such as the sun integration where I don’t care about the history, just activating on events when they happen.

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@esand That is what i tried initially. I ignored regular motion and only captured persons, vehicles, and animals. Worked perfect in the Reolink app, but continued to report in HA. The solution was to disable that entity in HA.

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If you mean you set something in the Reolink app, that’s not what I was referring to. I meant you can add something like this to your HA configuration.yaml:

recorder:
  exclude:
    domains:
      - sun
      - weather
    entity_globs:
      - sensor.hydrawise_*
      - binary_sensor.hydrawise_*

This is a copy of mine - I’ve got an irrigation system and I don’t care about knowing every time its sensors change, but I still want to access the info. This prevents the matching items from being recorded in the HA activity and history logs.

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Ah… now I understand better. Thanks for another option, Eli.