Reolink POE IP Camera Setup

Configuration
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network switch

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@roadkill247
Hey Road
I ended up putting a POE Switch so my cams and NVR are ON the same network. It’s the only way I could get it to work. It better as i don’t need to run all cams back to the NVR, just back to the closes switch. And it opens up the ability to connect to the cams independently via the custom component or Onvif or use tiny ipcam on my firetv.

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@Harry13 - Thanks, I will look into something like this!

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Updated to use the cameras outside of the NVR and the system seems to be working great!

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Think the only issues I am getting now is similar to the users above where camera.snapshot isn’t working.

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there’s more than one way to skin a snapshot as they say
i just got mine to work using the ring download

i already have setup

- id: '1576982658048'
  alias: New Automation
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.motion_mycamera
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'
  condition: []
  action:
  - data_template:
      filename: '{{now().strftime(''%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.jpg'')}}'
      subdir: '{{state_attr(''camera.mycamera'', ''friendly_name'')}}'
      url: http://my-camera-ip/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=wuuPhkmUCeI9WG7C&user=Nottoday&password=wellonedaymaybe
    service: downloader.download_file

hope that helps

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All, I’m in the market to buy an outdoor camera and have it integrate into hass.io. I’ve been looking at the Reolink RLC-420. I see @fwestenberg has created a Reolink addon - how well does it work? Should I drop the money and get a Reolink a, or is there a better away to go if I’m starting new?

Thanks in advance!

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@jjwBullfrog In my opinion the camera image quality is really well. I have some small improvements scheduled to the integration but so far no significant issues with the integration. I’m still happy with my choice for the RLC-420 and RLC-410. :smile:

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I recently added two of the RLC-410W’s and I’ve been really happy with them. Great image quality, retain color even at night, and have been rock solid in my HA setup. In the $40 range on Amazon which was a no-brainer for me.

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I too have an RLC-420 and RLC-410.

In hindsight, I’d avoid the RLC-410. Spiders and bugs love to build nests under the ‘roof’ of the RLC-410 camera. RLC-420 is probably less appealing due to not having sharp angles.

Image quality during the day is great. At night is ok.

Motion detection is quite shitty. I couldn’t find a way to be alerted only when people walks in the driveway. I plan to use ML to solve this at some point.

Price compared to other is really competitive

Biggest plus for me: works totally local. no cloud at all.

HA integration wise, the generic ha camera platform was ok, @fwestenberg integration works great

I haven’t researched newest models.

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What is ML?

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Machine Learning. Things like TensorFlow. A way to teach a computer how to infer something.

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I’ve been running mine through Blue Iris, that has definitely helped filter out false alarms. It has a TON of options to determine if something should trigger or not. You can have HA pull the streams from BI so HA benefits from the filtered motion as well.

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hei thanks, never heard of it. Apparently I would need a windows machine up 24/7 though, which is kind of a deal breaker for me. And the ML is really something I want to study

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check out the frigate project with a google coral stick: GitHub - blakeblackshear/frigate: NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

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I can’t even remember the last time I had a false alarm. I decided to build frigate because no matter what I tried with motion detection, it was never reliable enough to actually integrate into my alarm setup.

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this is absolutely great. best santa present of the year!

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Hi everyone,

Just purchased four 5MP PoE RLC-410 Cameras. Connectivity to the NVR working correctly. I am running HA I am running Home Assistant 0.103.4 using Docker with the following configuration:

camera:
- platform: reolink_dev
  host: 192.168.1.103
  username: !secret reolink_username
  password: !secret reolink_password
  name: camera
  scan_interval: 5

Getting the following error when trying to add to my HA configuration:

> 2020-01-05 23:41:03 ERROR (SyncWorker_66) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package aiosmtpd==1.2: ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/atpublic-1.0.dist-info'
> Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.
> 2020-01-05 23:41:03 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Platform error: camera - Requirements for reolink_dev not found: ['aiosmtpd==1.2'].

Any thoughts?

Thanks for any assistance.

kman

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Which model of Reolink do you use?

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im using RLC-410-5MP and RLC-410-W