Hi,
is it possibile to configure Reolink camera as media player?
If I’ve got some pre-recorded files to stream as audio when alarm happens, it would be great to send the file to the built-in speaker of the camera.
Thanks
I would also like to use a Reolink camera as a speaker, and stream audio to it from Home Assistant. I use a Reolink E1 Outdoor POE as a baby monitor, and I need to play soft music to lull the baby to sleep.
Currently, I play audio on my PC and use the “Virtual Audio Cable” program to convert that audio into a virtual microphone, which I then use in the Reolink client to “talk” to the camera. However, this is a pretty janky solution. It requires my PC to be on the whole time, and ties up my PC so I can’t do anything else with it that would require audio. It would be really great to stream from Home Assistant so that my PC is free for other work, or could be turned off. I could activate the sound with a single button press from my dashboard.
Hi Alex - this is exactly my intended use case as well.
For now I have one of my Reolink cameras on a post above my shed, and when the appropriate alert signal is received, I play the media file on a Symfonisk speaker in the shed. (An “Angry Dog” clip works wonders in getting rid of foxes lingering near my chicken coup!).
I want to do something similar with my other Reolink - but there is no convenient location to put a smart speaker - so using the built in one would be ideal…