Reolink POE IP Camera Setup

Configuration
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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

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Looks like some kind of permission issue hence failed to install aiosmtpd==1.2

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I received an RLC-410-5MP as a Christmas present and I am trying to get this component working. My configuration check is reporting the following error…

Platform error camera.reolink_dev - No module named 'haffmpeg'

Any Ideas?

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You need to include the ffmpeg integration in your configuration.yaml
Just the line
ffmpeg:

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You need to get into the home assistant container
docker exec -it homeassistant /bin/bash
Then
pip install aiosmtp==1.2

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That fixed my issue, Thanks

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@fwestenberg I use you plugin and its awesome. Thanks for you contribution.

I’m experiencing a small issue which I think is a easy thing to solve.

I added you binary_sensor according to the readme. but I get the following error:

Configuration invalid
Invalid config for [sensor.template]: extra keys not allowed @ data['sensors']['motion_garage']['delay_off']. Got OrderedDict([('seconds', 30)])
value is not allowed for dictionary value @ data['sensors']['motion_garage']['device_class']. Got 'motion'. (See ?, line ?). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/integrations/template/

My config looks like this:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      motion_garage:
        friendly_name: Camera garage
        device_class: motion
        entity_id: camera.garage
        value_template: "{{ is_state('camera.garage', 'motion') }}"
        delay_off:
          seconds: 30
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You should use binary_sensor at line 1.

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Feeling like a dork now…

Thanks for the help…

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Hi @fwestenberg ,
Since this weekend I’ve got 4 streams running with your component.
Before that I had the general camera component.
Could it be that 4 streams are too much?
After one day 2 streams break down. Is there a way, without rebooting hass.io to get the stream connected again?
Thanks!