Hello! Very newbie user here.
Running Reolink hub with difference scenes (ie. Home, Away, Night)
I installed Home Assistant and integrated Reolink Hub.
But not sure how to set up the automation.
I want to change the reolink scene to “Home” starting at 6am
and I want to change the reolink scene to “Away” starting at 11pm.
I see the option to set trigger at a certain time, then the action states “change reolink hub to first scene, or last scene etc.” and this is where I get confused.
On my ios APP, the scene that was selected dissapears, but I don’t see any scene highlighted anymore on the app (so no way to confirm if a scene change has been made)
If anyone has any very newbie instructions, I’d appreciate it. Basically I want the cameras to record and alarm at night, but not during the day. I don’t want to set the camera recording schedule as such, because there are times we are away during the day as well, and want the full alarm/recording. I assumed just creating various scenes would do that , but having trouble programming Home Assistant to change scenes.
I’m sure that can be done. Also having someone or something writing it for you means the second it misbehaves, you will be struggling back to find someone to fix it for you.
The best way to learn is to just try. Run thru the docs on getting started with the automation editor. If you get stuck, come back with what you have done.
Edit: I believe I found the answer. On the iOS home assistant companion app, I can specifically set which scene gets selected after the trigger.
Valid point!
I’ve set up automation to trigger at specific time (11pm) and the action is to use the Reolink Hub device and “change Reolink hub scene to last”
I’ve set another automation to change Reolink hub scene to first when time is at 6am.
I’m just not sure if the first scene is “disabled” or “home” on the Reolink.
The selected scene on the Reolink app disappears when home assistant makes a change, so I have no idea which scene mode was actually selected.
I’m very open to any suggestions/hints/or specifically where to read up more about this. As a casual end user, I’m impressed I made it this far already
Unfortunately, my automation is still not working despite all my best efforts.
If I click on RUN ACTION, it runs fine and performs the correct action. But if I leave it to trigger on its own based on time, it doesn’t seem to run.
I’ve used the {{ now() }} command and verified that the correct time is displayed.
Can anyone help? I’ve done so much reading but can’t seem to find something to address this issue.
It’s very simple what I want to do: change reolink hub scene to NIGHT at 11pm every night, and change the reolink hub scene to DISABLED at 6am every day.
This is the script:
id: ‘1765128154401’
alias: Activate Reolink Alarms at Night
description: ‘’
triggers:
trigger: time
at: ‘23:00:00’
weekday:
sun
mon
tue
wed
thu
fri
sat
conditions:
actions:
device_id: 6a0a4c494f35c47769a92d2b572a6b6c
domain: select
entity_id: c591f83c71c86df19c7068e94eb3ad8e
type: select_option
option: Night / Sleep
mode: single
id: ‘1765129249267’
alias: Turn off alarms Reolink during the day
description: ‘’
triggers:
Step 2: Check the automation Traces and the last triggered properties of both automations. They will tell you when/if an automation was triggered and what happened.
Solution: apparently I needed to disable the paravirtualization of virtualbox vm. Came across this is some thread and it works. All automations run as should now.
