Hi,
I’m very close to buying a reolink Home Hub. I need it because two of my camera can’t directly connect to my HA but can do it trough the hub. Here is my current reolink hardware :
-2 Argus track battery cameras
-1 outdoor e1 pro
-1 wifi doorbell
While the reolink team has been very useful with the questions directly related to their hardware, I still have some questions directly about HA. Ith this setup would I be able to :
-use the detection sensor of the cameras in HA in automation
-to see the cameras feeds in the reolink app, bonus if I can do it in HA
-be able to managed if the cameras are recording, with the right detection setting, depending on the alarm status (alarmo in HA), without the reolink system overwriting HA settings
Thanks
I went with the HomeHub and have no regrets. It allowed me to incorporate all battery operated cams into HA. I started off with the idea I’d control everything via my Synology server and continually ran into road blocks.
The HomeHub solves all previous issues with the HA integration
Thanks for your awnser ! In fact my main concern is the fact that the internal settings of the camaeras I set up when I use them with the reollink could mess up with HA. Is that the case ?
Also doy ou still have access to the camera feed on the app even if their connected to HA ?
I generally use the Reolink app to control the settings on the cams, but it doesn’t matter. If you adjust them via Reolink’s app or HA. The integration is fluid in both directions.
The feed can viewed simultaneous on the Reolink app and HA.
So that means I can tell to the cameras from HA to detect motion and record only when alarmo is armed ? I just want to be sure, because, if can’t do that sort of things it’s pointless for me to buy the hub.
And from what you’re telling me, when I tweak the settings in HA, the cameras and the app will follow and the opposite too ?
Thanks again.
Yes sir. Completely controllable both ways. This Argus PT Ultra is a battery operated cam
Ho boy, that’s great ! What entity or sensor would you use to enable the motion detection when needeed and disable it when not needeed ? You gave a lot of awnsers, especially with this two screenshots.
The sensors are added individually as binary. This allows you to create Automations based off those sensors. For example, if I detect motion from my driveway cam, it sends a notification to my LG televisions
- Animal
- Fluent
- Motion
- Person
- Vehicle
Do you have the possibility to disable the motion detection ? Because I don’t want to be spammed or trigger my alarm when I’m in my garden in the summer 
. Also being able to disable the motion detection would save some battery.
Yes, but I’d suggest just setting a schedule for motion detection in that area.
Ho ok. And this schedule is set in the integration or via an automation ?
Ho, cool. You gave me more awnsers than I could find anywhere on the internet in 2 days haha. Thanks a lot, I’ll come back here if some other questions come to my mind.
No problem, I wouldn’t promote if I didn’t think it was well worth it. I’d be happy to field additional question…
