Reolink cameras

What do you want the cameras to do? Are you recoding? Just for live view? Image recognition? I use reolink cameras and they work well with HA, just an RTSP stream.

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Reolink + Frigate

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I have 5 reolink cameras. They are great.

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I second Reolink, great quality for the money. 8 deployed for over 2 years without failure. Use their NVR mostly because I'm too lazy to finish my frigate config. Works in HA well and just exposed all of them to HomeKit with Homebridge. And so far all of their cameras were set up without any ability of monthly subscription bs.

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I really like Reolink for cameras.. The integration in HomeAssistant is really good. Do model specific research for their cameras if you're going with wireless cameras because not all wireless cameras are created equally.

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Yes, just like any other reolink camera. go2rtc: streams: Camname: - ffmpeg:rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/h264Preview_01_main Camname_sub: - ffmpeg:rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/h264Preview_01_sub

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Reolink cameras. You can completely block from the Internet and they still work fine even with the mobile app on LAN. I just set a firewall rule in my pfsense firewall. Also have good home assistant integration.

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Agreed with the Scrypted suggestion. I use it solely to bring my Reolink cameras into HomeKit (and use frigate for nvr/detection). Streams load in less than a second.

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aqara - yes, tapo - no (alot of cloud requirements on some devices, reolink = yes :)

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I have several brands and I like the REOLink ones the best. This includes the doorbell cam that is really good compared to the Amcrest it replaced.

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Reolink are fantastic. No cloud required (although it is available if you'd rather use cloud storage). Great quality and well-built. I've heard good things about Amcrest too. Worth noting that Home Assistant is not an NVR natively, it cannot be used to stream or record CCTV itself out of the box. However, there are add-ons which allow you to do so, with integrations which can hook them in with Home Assistant. Frigate is probably the most popular for use with Home Assistant and has really great integration for alerting and viewing footage on dashboards.

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The Reolink HA integration uses Reolink API, which works the cameras built-in person/car/animal etc, detection. They appear in HA are individual sensors. So for example, I turn certain outdoor lights only when the a person is detected, and not just any motion. It’s very good and very simple. I find the cameras object detection very good on the whole, with few false positives once you have the sensitivity setting dialled in. However I use Scrypted to get my cameras into HomeKit. Scrypted is faster for loading feeds on my Apple TV and iPhones, but doesn’t have the feature of the Home Assistant …

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They have good night vision, good sensors, decent optics. They're PoE and can run totally locally with zero cloud connection all for a reasonable price, what's not to like.

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Vibration sensors rather than opening sensors. Window glasses are to be broken. Heiman siren as deterrent. It's loud. Tuya sirens are just speakers. Reolink cameras are the best for Home Assistant.

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Reolink and Dahua/Amcrest. I'm using both, and they both work well as cameras and with HA. Make sure to watch these videos too: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-51DG-VULPom8Ud6vdf56Oeq51yA2xlp There are a couple of videos on there about what to look for when shopping and setting up cameras. You also get pretty good, real views of what the cameras can do in different light situations. Personally, I think putting security cameras on Wi-Fi makes no sense except for circumstances when running wire is completely impractical. If you own the house, and you can source the correct tools, it's …

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… expensive branded hardware with a strong integration with HA works great. Anything cheap/DIY often works out more difficult and time consuming. Stable: \- Reolink (F'ing amazing) \- Roborock (solid) \- SMLight Zigbee Dongle \- Custom Firmware Xiaomi Thermometer (bluetooth) \- Airtouch AC Controller Unstable: \- Shelly Dimmer 2 (1/20 blew up after 1 year; cost $300) \- Zigbee GU10 Globes (80% failure rate after 6 months) \- Wyze Cams/Sensors \- Frigate (Updates and DIY coding setup is often cause for breaking) \- Aqara Zigbee Sensors (inconsistent and dropping from network)

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All of my Reolink cameras can send person and vehicle detection to home assistant directly from the camera, no frigate needed. It’s more than accurate enough for me.

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Just my curiosity, not an indictment of your project, but what about Frigate didn’t work for you? I get that the detection native to the cameras was good enough for you, but the inconsistent RTSP stream part is odd to me. I have Reolink cameras with Frigate and they’re easily the most reliable ones in my setup other than maybe a very dumb hardwired Dahua.

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I am having the same issue with Reolink cameras as well

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