oh I wish they would make it easier to integrate into Frigate
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This doesn’t make much sense to me. I see it as a major drawback for battery-powered devices. It would be great if they could be integrated without requiring an NVR.
Thank you starkillerOG for all the work on this project. I have been using for a long time now and it works great.
Is there a way to get playback within HA? I would love to be able to view recordings from within HA.
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Why would they, if not even Home Assistant supports 2-way audio.
Yes it is available through the media browser in the sidebar.
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Two-way audio will come in the future 
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I have 4 Reolink cams in Frigate…3tpz and the doorbell. No issue, just followed the Frigate documentation.
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I have the WiFi doorbell and it’s been working decently in HA so far, which I am very happy about… but can we get the ability to mute the chime from the HA integration?
Digging in to my Reolink app to put the chime in “silent” mode every time I want to go out in the yard without driving the dog insane is very annoying. I would love to create an automation to temporarily disable person detection or temporarily mute the chime.
This is outstanding news!
I gather not all the reolink stuff works so well with scrypted at the moment and that’s the main thing stopping me from diving in.
This is perfect, just as I’m considering diving into both ecosystems. Will the scheme look backwards into the Duo range and look to certify older devices like Duo Floodlight etc. (and wifi cameras). Thanks!
Hi, I’ve just installed Home Hub with some Argus Eco Ultra and Duo 2 battery powered camera. I’ve also configured them in HA, your integration is awesome, great job! Anyway I found a strange issue from the camera side. If for any reason a camera get disconnected, the only way to reconnect it is to trigger the pir sensor or to reboot the camera or to push the button on the camera. Have you noted this issue during your integration development? It is a very strange behaviour, I’ve traced the packets with wireshark and it seems that the camera is looping with a strange DNS request that fails. This happens using both the Hub wifi or an external wifi ap.
Ya that is like 99% what people think of for a video doorbell. Otherwise you just have a security camera and a doorbell button.
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I have not seen that particular bug.
Will run some tests.
What happes when you open the reolink app, does it then also come back in HA, or is the Reolink app also unable to reconnect to the camera?
Also the app is unable to reach the camera, it is reported as device disconnected. Today I’ve started again from scratch without HA integration and with just one camera on the Hub wifi. If I turn off and on the wifi on the hub I lose the cam until I trigger the pir sensor. Using the camera standalone I don’t see this behaviour, unfortunately in this way I cannot use the HA integration.
Sounds like a issue in the Home Hub firmware (in combination with a not so strong wifi signal). I will still check if I can reproduce.
I would contact Reolink support about this.
I have already logged a ticket, I’ve provided my findings but so far they just asked if I would like to return the cameras. I’ve asked if it is possible to fix the issue, I’m waiting for an answer.
I have 2 way audio working with my reolink doorbell in frigate. It is not perfect and has a slight audio lag but nothing terrible.
You can definitely disable person detection. I do it multiple times a day depending on circumstances… as far as the chime, I haven’t tried, but you could probably just set its volume to 0 to ‘disable’ it when needed. The chime is a separately listed device in the Reolink integration
Terry
Oh! I know the integration supports it but the model wasn’t specified in the blog post regarding the certification.
That is where the question came from. So is Reolink planning to certify more devices?
Apologies for that. I was reading the announcement in the first post here, not from the blog post. Those links aren’t in the post, so I thought all the devices on the integration page were certified. My bad.