Hi everyone, I have three webcams for several years and all are configured without problems. Each of them with a lan address assigned by dhcp and obviously different names (north, south, garage).
Now I’m trying to install the fourth webcam (indoor) but, very strangely, at the end of the automatic integration procedure it acquires the name of another existing webcam (north): a crazy mess.
In practice I find all the entities doubled (webcam_outdoor_north_vehicle(2), webcam_outdoor_north_siren(2), etc.) both in the north and in the new indoor.
I tried everything: I deleted all the integration entries, restarted HA, changed all the ip addresses on the router, changed names on reolink app, on router, on HA… but nothing done!
It seems as if there was a database that the integration draws from automatically.
Who can help me?
It’s the first thing I did but the “indoor” entities are also renamed. The same if I rename “indoor” again with “north”. Yet each webcam has its own IP address.
I don’t know where to put my hands anymore…now I have deleted the indoor webcam waiting to understand something…but if you don’t help me I really don’t think I can do it…
Ummm, off the top of my head all I can suggest is remove the reolink integration from HA. Using the reolink app or web interface make sure they are all named as you want and set static IP in their individual configs and make sure your router is set to only dish out those IPs to them base on their Mac address.
Re-add the reolink integration and I bet it will work.
But can the reolink integration be completely removed? Because by deleting the four webcams and restarting HA, the reolink integration also disappears but it is evident that the configurations remain as in memory because if I then try to insert the first webcam it is inserted with the previous name and not with the new name given in the reolink app. It seems incredible but it is so (for me)…
I saw that by integrating the north webcam by entering user, psw and ip… I find the webcam perfectly integrated but with double MAC: its real MAC and that of the Indoor that I have not yet reintegrated… oh well!
So when I also integrate the indoor webcam… double MAC for it too (its and that of the north).
Instead the integrations of the other two webcams are good. What a mess…
I suppose you could try reloading each individual device to see if that clears it up. Perhaps reboot your router first. Confirm in your router setup that the actual MAC addresses are, indeed, not alike.
Restarted the router and I confirm that the mac addresses are not the same. Even the ip are different, the names are different and the webcams are different…it seems incredible but it is so
the problem is that in automations and scripts the two webcams have the same names…and if I rename an entity it automatically changes the name of the other webcam too…
Just logged in to tell you that you are not alone. I own 4 cameras. I can add 4 cameras without problems. However, one camera has two MAC adresses and it tells me that I only own three cameras. One cameras has all entities doubled.
I deleted all cameras. Tried to find remaining entities. No luck. Pretty much annoying.
Yes, after doing countless tests, I deleted all webcams, I deleted reolink integration and restarted HA.
Then I deleted all webcams from Reolink app in Android, I cleaned cache and uninstalled Android app.
Then I reinstalled Android app and one by one all webcams: for each reinstallation of webcams and before reinstalling the others, I went into router settings and gave a static address different from previous one to each webcam (if before webcam A was 192.168. 1.30 I directed it to 192.168. 1.50… and so on for the others).
Once everything was fixed on the Android app I switched to HA and reinstalled the reolink integration and one by one all webcams.
I know it’s not all logical but it worked… and that’s it, I hope you have the same luck as me.
