Is the ability to play a quick reply only available on the POE doorbell?
Hi, it should work on the wifi doorbell too. I have a POE so i cant confirm
Hi, I tried this and for me does not work, but probably not doing it correctly.
Do you or anyone else know a way to trigger a quick reply in HA?
My scenario is that someone rings the doorbell I view it on HomeKit and then depending on the situation I have setup 2 switches that I can toggle, one will unlock the door and the other is just for a message, I want to map a quick reply to both these switches via an automation. I have setup the door to unlock fine but would like the message to go with it.
If you go to developer tools - states and find your door bell play quick reply message, it should list all the ones available, try to copy the message text from there and past into the option box
Thank you so much that worked! 
Hi there. I tried setthing this up, however, it’s only showing me the option to select an auto quick reply message.
Do you have any idea what might be causing this?
Thanks!
Hi, it wont list the available ones. Use developer tools to see the options. If this still doesnt work. Can you share a screenshot
Hi, I posted this in the github issues section for the reolink integration. Turns out, since I’m connecting my doorbell to a NVR the functionality isn’t available (yet). However, it seems that Reolink has updated the firmware of a similar NVR recently so there is hope that they’ll also update the firmware for my NVR.
This doesn’t work
Using the action/event select.select_option doesn’t work for me.
The only way that works fine is using shell/curl to interact with Reolink’s API.
On HA configuration.yaml:
shell_command:
doorbell_quick_answer: >-
curl --insecure -X POST 'https://192.168.1.123/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=QuickReplyPlay&user=admin&password=password' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '[{"cmd":"QuickReplyPlay","action":0,"param":{"id":{{id}}}}]'
And create a script/automation like:
alias: "Answer doorbell"
sequence:
- action: shell_command.doorbell_quick_answer
metadata: {}
data:
id: 3
Enjoy o/
Thanks all for the great information provided here. At the time of writing, quick replied can be triggered easily.
However, is it possible to add the Doorbell as media player to be able to send TTS to it? I found Alexs great webrtc integration but I just want to ask if anybody is aware of a more straightforward solution. Would it be possible to put it into the perfect integration from StarkillerOG?
- Is there’s a way to refresh to reply list messages in HA? my list is empty…
- I’ve tried through rest API, but I either get “plase login first”, and if I use the token I get “param error”.
- Note that my cameras are behind the Reolink NVR and are not directly exposed to my network, so I am not sure how I can address a specific channel…
I think this feature request should now be closed I see many including me having access to a functioning way of triggering a quick voice message.
I get others still have some trouble probably due to the NVR in the middle, but this should be a regular help request I believe.
I can’t seem to find any way to flag this as implemented maybe someone from the @staff can ?
I have the following:
-Reolink integration on Home Assistant (picking up my home hub pro)
-Frigate Integration on Home Assistant (picking up my reolink cameras)
I find that for Home Assistant’s Reolink integration, the only useful thing it provides is the ability to play quick messages.
I was completely fine having my stream running on the advanced cam card, recording 24/7 all day and doing events with no issues, AND also having an automation to playback quick replies on the doorbell camera (it’s a Wifi wall plug model) - for context, just for fun, I play a sound effect when the door is unlocked.
Now my issue is, after putting HA on https to try out the microphone, I get very intermittent issues. The microphone works through HA using that lovelace card. But it also seems to break the quick reply function.
Has nobody ever encountered this issue before? cmd ‘QuickReplyPlay’: API returned error code 1. Is this fixable or no?
I want to add as well that this isn’t a Home Assistant issue from what I can see.
Because if I try to QuickPlay from the windows app, I just get a generic “failed” message.
So, I don’t know - maybe the stream with microphone input is taking over and not allowing quickplay to work? I have no idea how to fix this or if it’s expected behaviour.
@starkillerOG
Currently there are some special “halloween” quick messages provided in the reolink app.
But in Home Assistant it is not possible to select them.
Do I have the possibility to change it in home assistant or is this not possible?
Same here. I tried reloading the integration to no effect. Have you reached out to Reolink support? They’re now a Platinum integration so you’d expect a bit more from them. Did these show last Halloween/Christmas?
I didn’t use it last year. I saw it last year one day after halloween in the app.
I just created an issue in github: [Reolink] Temporary quick messages not available in home assistant · Issue #155435 · home-assistant/core · GitHub