good morning all! I am hoping someone might be able to help.
I just recently purchased a Reolink doorbell (wifi version) to replace my Ring doorbell. Before going outside in the cold, I have set up the doorbell in my office to play around with it to test notifications and potential automations. I was able to work through the Reolink app without issues, I have been able to add it to my BlueIris and into Home Assistant.
It will work properly for about 5 minutes after the install or a reboot. Motion sensor in HA will detect movement and a Person, I am able to change the configuration settings of the camera in HA. But after 5 minutes it dies, I can only do the configuration stuff, the video and motion stop working all together. If I reboot HA it will come back for about 5 minutes.
Does the Reolink App still work when it stops working in HA? In addition to the Controls, Sensors and Configuration entities in HA there’s a Diagnostic section that has a WiFi signal entity that is not enabled by default. I’m not sure how Reolink is measuring the signal, but for comparison mine shows a value of 2.0 and I haven’t had any issues with maintaining a good connection.
Reolink App still works, I receive the notifications from that without issues. I did enable the Wifi Signal Entity to verify and it has been ranging for 4 to 3 for the past few days.
at first nothing in there at all. I looked under “Home Assistant Core” and pretty much all others knowing they wouldn’t have anything in them, but figured what do I have to loose.
I rebooted HA, it was working and then it stopped. Now I see something…
Hmmm… that’s interesting… I’ve not seen that one before at all. Let me see what I can dig up on that. Does that 10.97.51.227 address look like your local address? I rarely see people use a 10.97.0.0 subnet.
I still have a bit of work to lock it down further, still trying to make sure everything will work.
I just updated the Reolink Doorbell to enable HTTPS hoping that may solve it. I has been running for about 20 minutes now… longest I have ever seen it work.
Yeah, I have my doorbell running with HTTPS as well. I had HTTP enabled for a bit, but it doesn’t seem to like it much. Also, the http+flv route doesn’t seem to work with it or the Duo2/3 cameras as well. Something in the newer firmware seems to have broken (or removed) it.
I just thought of an interesting workaround however; Try and setup go2rtc and setup the stream(s) there. Then, point Blue Iris to use go2rtc rather than direct to the doorbell. It might bypass that ONVIF problem as well. It also bypasses the stream limit as you only have one RTSP stream open to go2rtc and then go2rtc provides it’s own stream to as many clients as one needs.
Thanks for your help. Switching to HTTPS has worked, walked into my office this morning and got my notification!
I will definitely look into go2rtc as I would like all my other cameras into HA. The blueiris integration in HA is very taxing on the BlueIris machines CPU. I am playing around with Frigate as well
Hmmm… that’s interesting… I’ve not seen that one before at all. Let me see what I can dig up on that. Does that 10.97.51.227 address look like your local address? I rarely see people use a 10.97.0.0 subnet.