Reolink POE IP Camera Setup

Harry13 · January 11, 2020, 9:58am

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

pcwii · January 11, 2020, 4:05pm

That fixed my issue, Thanks

Letalis · January 12, 2020, 9:46am

@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

fwestenberg · January 12, 2020, 10:01am

You should use binary_sensor at line 1.

Letalis · January 12, 2020, 10:05am

Feeling like a dork now…

Thanks for the help…

Klex1404 · January 14, 2020, 6:25pm

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!

Harry13 · January 14, 2020, 11:09pm

Yes reboot the camera instead

Klex1404 · January 15, 2020, 3:56am

Thanks for the suggestion but that does not fix the stream. Via the Reolink app the video is still there. I also didn’t have this issue with the generic component nor the ffmpeg one.

Harry13 · January 15, 2020, 3:59am

you didnt change the username and password when configured the camera’s in the app
i can’t say more cause i’ve only put up 2 of the 6 camera’s so far

michaelhdmd · January 19, 2020, 4:47pm

@hmatos did you solve your problem? I think I have something similar going on.
Configuration.yaml

stream:
camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: Camera1
    still_image_url: "http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&amp;channel=0&amp;rs=wuuPhkmUCeI9WG7C&amp;user=admin&amp;password=xxxxxx"
    stream_source: "rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/h264Preview_01_main"

ui-lovelace:

     - camera_image: camera.Camera1
        camera_view: live
        entities: []
        title: Camera1
        type: picture-glance

hmatos · January 20, 2020, 11:16am

Hi @michaelhdmd,

yes mine is working, here is my config:

Configuration.yaml

camera:                                         
  - platform: reolink_dev                       
    host: 192.168.44.12                         
    username: admin                             
    password: !secret reolink    
    name: frontdoor                     
    stream: main                                
    protocol: rtsp                              
    scan_interval: 5

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template                                                 
    sensors:                                                       
      motion_frontdoor:                                  
        friendly_name: Camera entrada                                       
        device_class: motion                       
        entity_id: camera.frontdoor                      
        value_template: "{{ is_state('camera.frontdoor', 'motion') }}" 
        delay_off:                                                 
          seconds: 30

ui-lovelace:

aspect_ratio: 0%
camera_image: camera.frontdoor
entities:
  - entity: binary_sensor.motion_frontdoor
  - entity: light.luz_entrada
title: Entrada
type: picture-glance

silfa718 · January 21, 2020, 7:36am

Thanks for posting this…helped me out setting up my camera!

Sgnt-Bilko · January 21, 2020, 10:06pm

Ive cloned the folder structure and files and created a separate binary_sensors.yaml in the config folder which contains the sensors configuration.
Im trying to call the sensor config by inserting the following syntax into my configuration.yaml

binary_sensors: !include binary_sensors.yaml

the contents of binary_sensors.yaml is taken from https://community.home-assistant.io/u/hmatos post:

platform: template
sensors:
motion_frontdoor:
friendly_name: Camera frontdoor
device_class: motion
entity_id: camera.frontdoor
value_template: “{{ is_state(‘camera.frontdoor’, ‘motion’) }}”
delay_off:
seconds: 30

However this is not being called. I know the syntax works because if i paste the above syntax into the configuration.yaml file it works. Dows anyone know what i need to do call it?

michaelhdmd · January 28, 2020, 3:17am

I have the same problem and I am connected through a NVR. How did you solve? Did you add a network switch before the NVR?

Begicj · January 28, 2020, 12:11pm

My setup is network switch-NVR-cameras connected to NVR. I have solved image and motion with https://github.com/fwestenberg/reolink
He added chanell option:

Reolink IP camera

Home Assistant Reolink addon

SETUP

Clone this project into your config/custom_components directory
In your configuration.yaml add the following lines:

camera:

platform: reolink_dev
host: IP_ADDRESS
username: admin
password: YOUR_PASSWORD
name: camera (optional, default Reolink Camera)
stream: main or sub (optional, default main)
protocol: rtmp or rtsp (optional, default rtmp)
channel: NVR camera channel (optional, default 0)
scan_interval: 5 (optional, default 30s)

Create a binary sensor for the motion detection, add this to your binary_sensors.yaml:

platform: template
sensors:
motion_frontdoor:
friendly_name: Camera frontdoor
device_class: motion
entity_id: camera.frontdoor
value_template: “{{ is_state(‘camera.frontdoor’, ‘motion’) }}”
delay_off:
seconds: 30

michaelhdmd · January 29, 2020, 3:58am

I have the fwesternberg reolink addon installed and configured.

configuration.yaml

camera:
  - platform: reolink_dev
    host: !secret reolinkip
    username: admin
    password: !secret reolinkpass
    name: frontdoor
    stream: sub
    protocol: rtsp
    channel: 4
    scan_interval: 5

binary_sensors.yaml:

platform: template
sensors:
  motion_frontdoor:
    friendly_name: Porch Cam
    device_class: motion
    entity_id: camera.frontdoor
    value_template: "{{ is_state('camera.frontdoor', 'motion') }}"
    delay_off:
        seconds: 30

ui-lovelace.yaml:

     - camera_image: camera.frontdoor
        entities:
          - binary_sensor.motion_frontdoor
        title: Porch Cam
        type: picture-glance

The picture-glace card never displays; when I click on the card, the “wheel” keeps spinning. I have the PoE B800 cameras and NVR RLN8-410-E (firmware v2.0.0.142_19090408101). Seems I might be trying to display the “clear” rather than the “fluent” pic.

Begicj · January 29, 2020, 5:51am

How many cameras do you have?

michaelhdmd · January 29, 2020, 3:02pm

2 Cameras installed of 4. They are on Channels 1 and 4.

Begicj · January 29, 2020, 3:26pm

For camera on NVR channel 1 use parameter in reolink addon channel: 0 and for camera on NVR channel 4 use parameter channel: 3

michaelhdmd · January 30, 2020, 2:47pm

The ‘0’ channel did the trick!!! I also got the motion sensor working, by pulling in the code from the binary_sensor.yaml into the configuration.yaml. I was missing the binary_sensor: !include binary_sensor.yaml line, but I didn’t want to mess with the formatting. I was also able to get the second camera configued. That is Channel 4 in the ReoLink app, but used 3 in the configuration.yaml.