I have the Reolink Doorbell Wifi setup with the offical Reolink integration.
The doorbell has a Record switch entity:
According to the documentation, recordings should be viewable using the media browser. After turning the Record entity On for for ~30 seconds and then Off, I am not finding any recordings under Media > Reolink.
What location should the recordings be saved to?
Does the Reolink Doorbell Wifi not support saving recordings or is this a bug?
IIRC, the Record button toggles the Record button in the Surveillance settings in the camera itself. Recordings only get stored if you have a SD card in the device AND you either have a motion event or you have the timer set to always record (on a schedule).
With that said, I have plenty of recordings in my Media section, so I definitely don’t think it’s a bug.
Recordings only get stored if you have a SD card in the device
You have answered my question!
I assumed the recordings would be stored on my Home Assistant device.
Happy to help!
Yeah, Reolinks will only enable the record option if you have a SD connected. There are other ways to record the stream (Frigate, Blue Iris, go2rtc, etc), but to use the official integration to grab recordings, you have to have a SD card in the device.
Sorry for reviving this, but I would like to trigger a recording via an external event.
For example a additional motion sensor. So far I have not found a possibility to trigger a recording onto the SD Card. I thought changing the State of the motion detection would do the trick. however this was not the case.
is there an other way?
