We have some Reolink E1 Outdoor pro cameras installed at a holiday farmhouse that we go to only occasionally - we can access the cameras and recordings in HA via nabucasa but the farm is remote and only connected by copper phone line getting EXTREMELY slow access - making watching cam recordings remotely untenable - Tried a Reolink cloud subscription that does what we need - slowly upload the recordings to faster better connected servers so we can log in and play them at reasonable speed -
BUT
the Reolink cloud service and interface is a) has an impressively awful UI and functionality and is not integrated with the other reolink desktop or mobile camera apps b) very expensive.
what are possible ways to backup / sync the HA camera media folder offsite easily ?
It would be amazing to have a simple web Ui to help view files as my partner likes to check thru the camera streams & recodings spotting wildlife as it wanders thru the garden and a raw ftp folder wilL not fly…
maybe SFTP to a ProtonDrive somewhere plus something ?
Any suggestions or directions very welcome…
I have all my cameras connected through scrypted so I can have HomeKit Secure Video viewable on apple devices. That works for me but I’m already paying for Apple cloud space for family.
Thanks for the suggestion - the issue is the remote access speed is less than 1mbps download and often less than 200kbps back channel - think 1996 dialup speed - so remote access - that we already have working fine - is much too slow to be usable…
to view a 25 second low res reolink clip takes 30 - 90s of buffering before it plays via remote access - this is the big challenge so streaming multiple cameras to a remote NVR wont work and a local NVR doesnt solve the problem of access being so slow ?
The whole point of my suggestion is that HA/Scrypted captures the clips and uploads at whatever speed through apple home (you need an apple home hub at that location…cheap HomePod mini works). Then remotely you can browse clips at cloud speed.
Hi, I would create a VPN between the holiday house and your main house with Wireguard where the holiday location is the client and keeps the connection live.
Then use something like syncthing to upload recordings.
thanks to all the answers, suggestions and helpful replies,
I set up frigate on a pi 5 remotely as a test with the idea to prefilter as much video onsite as possible - so far it looks very promising but need more cpu power really - we have looked at starlink and that is technically a viable solution - unfortunately I am uncomfortable about giving them my money for a number of reasons that are not relevant to smart home type discussion - if frigate works ok then maybe I will look into rsync or something similar to get the video out a few hundred at a time - (am currently looking at the remote cameras and trying to download a 7 minute recording - the estimate is 22hrs… lol )
so streaming multiple cameras to a remote NVR wont work and a local NVR doesnt solve the problem of access being so slow ?