Reolink POE IP Camera Setup

Configuration
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I have an RLC-410-5MP running in my HA but I don’t think this unit has wifi.

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Exactly, I just figured it out, sorry for the stupid question.

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So I have a slightly odd issue. I have 2 cameras, to the best of my knowledge set up exactly the same, however one comes through perfectly, and the other comes through in black and white. This is during the day, and is in colour when viewed on the Reolink app, so I don’t believe its in night mode.

Heres my configuration.yaml:

camera:
- platform: reolink_dev
  host: 192.168.2.55
  username: 
  password: 
  name: pool
  stream: main
  protocol: rtmp
  channel: 0
  scan_interval: 30

camera 2:
- platform: reolink_dev
  host: 192.168.2.160
  username: 
  password: 
  name: frontyard
  stream: main
  protocol: rtmp
  channel: 0
  scan_interval: 30

Anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

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Just wanted to say a big thank-you to @fwestenberg - just bought 3 RLC-410s to replace the blink cameras that were all-but bricked by a change to the API. Got them set up and integrated in no time!

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Lag is very variable depending on how you are connecting and the stream you are viewing. In the reolink desktop app, I get a lag of about 3 secs (to a PC wired to the same network through a gigabit switch). In HA, to the same wired PC I get a lag of around 12 secs with a full 5MP stream. A 5MP stream over my home WiFi (5Ghz, good signal) to the Reolink mobile app lags by about 2-3 seconds. Using HA on my phone over Wifi, I suprisingly only have a lag of 4 secs…

Go figure?

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You need RLC-411WS which is the wireless version (still require power by PoE or a non included power adapter though)

Edit: RLC-411WS is an older model and discontinued. So either RLC-410W or the newer (and more expensive) RLC-511W

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RLC-410W is the Wi-Fi version. I have 3 of them running great with the unofficial Reolink plugin.

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Okay, thanks a lot, guys.

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Have you guys tried to use the camera with HomeKit? I’m planning to buy one and get a dvr combo, but I’ve read the whole thread and it seems that it’s not fully compatible yet in homeassistant, lr the frame rate is quite slow.

Have you guys had good luck trying zoneminder?

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Has anyone had any luck getting snapshots at lower than full resolution? I’m running those against tensorflow and using the 5MP images takes too much time…

Edit: for now, I try to find a balance between speed and accuracy on tensorflow models.

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Hello,
I am new to video cameras in home assistant, but saw this link and bought a Reolink E1 camera from Amazon. It doesn’t seem to have rtsp. The E1 pro seems to have RTSP but not browser access.

Can you guys share which Reolink camera you have used successfully with home assistant? Anyone used the E1 pro and recommends it?

Thank you!

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Have you tried taking a snapshot of the substream?

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I think the RLC 410/420 are the most popular.

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Ah, I don’t think I said clearly about that - I was getting the snapshot directly from the camera web page. But no, I haven’t tried saving a snapshot from the substream itself! Have to try that.

Edit: but then I remembered that I’ve done that too, but the issue is that the camera stream has that around 10 second delay so it won’t do much good…

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I’m running DOODS and it’s fairly good so far. Iv had a few false positives bUt that’s because I haven’t set up conditions in my automations. It takes about 4 seconds to analyse a camera stream (snapshot might be quicker) and the scan gets triggered when the camera senses motion (custom component binary sensor).

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I have two Reolink E1 pro on separate VLAN. It works fine with ONVIF integration.
Reolink uses port 8000 for ONVIF.

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Does the ONVIF integration allow HA to detect motion from the camera?

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Thank you @babar @Eeeeeediot will buy one and try it. I wish the E1 Pro had an http stream. Are you able to pull the rtsp stream into a browser?

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What kind of hardware do you have, and which settings (which tf model?).

How do you make it analyse a camera stream? To me it seems it only grabs a snapshot so it basically functions just like tensorflow component on HA. I guess it was meant to make tensorflow work on “any” system and be a bit more flexible.

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I have this package https://reolink.com/se/product/rlk8-420d4/?attribute_pa_version=5mp
And as I’m writing this I’m trimming Doods to recognize correctly.