We aren’t too fond of cameras around here and there’s almost always someone home so it’s not really a necessity for us. Having said that, we’ve had a few cams for a while now and most important is the doorbell.
I’m certain for 95% of you I don’t have to explain why I want the Amazon/Ring bell gone.
I run HA and have deployed Frigate separately to start messing with IP cams.
Here is my question? I understand that you can take the feed from the Reolink bell/cams and import it into Frigate from which I will send it over to my home assistant. For those of you who already do this, how offline is it? Did you need to set up any kind of reolink account to adjust settings or do the initial login? Does the camera try to call home occasionally? Is it fully offline?
I learned my lesson with Amazon. I want to control this doorbell myself and I’d to avoid video, audio, or logs exiting my network without me knowing.
How has the Reolink - Frigate - Home Assistant trio panned out for you?
I used to have the amcrest doorbell but switched to reolink after two amcrest died back to back after only a year each. You need to do the initial setup using the reolink app like opening rtsp/onvif ports, but then you can feed it to frigate and disable internet access. I have this exact setup and it works well. They only thing I haven’t got working yet is two way audio. If you don’t mind reolink online, then you can use their app and integration for two way audio.
Two-way audio is what I’m currently struggling with. I’ve got a Wyze Doorbell v1 that will be loaded with Thingino to replace my Ring doorbell. Hopefully I can get it figured out.
I’ve tried three or four times, and always ended up dropping it. Never could get it to work with my exact config. I have a relatively complex network setup with vlans, firewall rules, and devices, so I imagine I’m more of an edge case though.
Can you link the reolink doorbell to a few Echo’s to play door chime sounds/announcements?
You could string up an automation for this. Reolink integration requires internet connectivity but exposes the doorbell to home assistant for follow on notifications if you like.