Reolink day/night sensor

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Hello everyone, I own a NVR kit with three cameras, I managed to integrate it into home assistant via official integration so far so good.
Now I would like to take advantage of the camera when it goes from day to night state to turn on some lights in the yard. Among the sensors I haven’t found anything, do any of you know how to do this, or can give me any advice on this?

NVR: RLN8-410-E
Cam1: RLC-511
Cam2: RLC-511
Cam3: RLC-410-5MP

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There is no way in the API to get the status if the camera is in day or night mode.
However what you can do is use the daynight_mode select entity in HomeAssistant and set that to color or black&white instead of auto. Then the camera will not switch automatically anymore and you can use a automation to switch it between color and B&W based on sunset/sunrise for instance. Then you can use the status of the daynight_mode select entity to know if it is in day or night mode.

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Hi, actually I don’t need to change the operation of the cameras. I wanted to take advantage of the day/night transition, so I can use in my other automations to turn on some lights in the yard.

This is because with home assistant’s sunrise/sunset sensor it is not very accurate, even adjusting the offsets I would have to stand to change it often, since it changes very fast especially in this period. Alternative was to find a twilight sensor maybe zigbee but I haven’t found anything. I also bought an Aqara P1 motion sensor but it only gives me the value when it detects motion and I haven’t found a way to read it all the time.

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Unfortunately that is currently not possible.
You could ask Reolink to expose the current light level or day/night state of the camera through the HTTP API (implementing some new API command to get the current light level and/or day/night state).
If it gets added to the API, I can implement it in HomeAssistant.

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ok I thank you, I will try to make the request, if I hear back I will update you.

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Unfortunately I’ve been busy with family issues, now I’ve sent email to support let’s see if they reply.

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I have been looking for this exposure as well. Have you hear back? I sent an email as well.

Thanks,

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Yes, they replied that at the moment the bees are only those that are already publicly available. I no longer insisted since I created my sensor with a twilight switch and a sonoff.

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Thanks for following up, I may go that route as well.

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