Thank you for your heartfelt words!
These kind of comments make my day 
I just put implementing the hardware IO/Alarm in/out of the RLN36 on my to do list. But it may take quite some time to actually get to it. I have a lot off stuff to do for Reolink and I would first need to get a RLN36. The 2x RLN8, RLN16, Home Hub and Home Hub Pro that I do have all dont have this hardware IO I think…
The only way to get the Doorbell Wi-Fi Battery Cam into HA is to use the Home Hub. Will not integrate with HA without. So Purchased the Home Hub. This DB Cam is no good if you are on a busy street. Its camera is monitoring continuously to be able to do AI detection. It uses more power than the DB Cam charges with so the battery goes dead over a couple days or less. After they replaced the DB Cam 3 times, they replaced it with a Wi-Fi DB Cam, no battery. That required me to rewire my Doorbell Chimes with a ZooZ relay to activated them. (The battery one activated the mechanical chimes directly. That’s why I bought it to replace the regular Wi-Fi version.)
Then I find that the visitor ‘device’ (actually all devices from the 2 DB Cams I have attached via Wi-Fi to the Reolink Home Hub) status changes frequently to ‘unavailable’. Have to reload the integration to get them back online. I setup an automation to do that automatically. I only had automations on the front DB Cam so hadn’t noticed it was occurring on both. Once I noted that, and couldn’t find any other fault, I decided it must be the hub as that was the common point. Removed the hub, moved the DB Cams to just Wi-Fi, and reloaded the Integration, and no further problems with the status of these devices becoming ‘unavailable’. Before that, some times devices went ‘unavailable’ with motion detected or AI detection, then the doorbell mechanical chimes couldn’t ring.
Was really frustrating, missed a number of visitors!
Just sharing this info to help anyone that is seeing similar behavior.
Adding my thanks to @starkillerOG work on the integration. It’s been super.
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Hi There,
I have 4 cameras integrated, so far OK. But just realizied that I could not change switches such as Movement_detection on od off. If I change it in the integration, the switch just went back into previous position after a couple of seconds. What I am doing wrong??
Thanks for any help. JJ