Reolink Cameras

… easy to set up, and is very good quality. Way better than my nest cams or circle 2’s. Am tempted to get rid of all my actual HomeKit cams and use the Reolinks.

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… use both? If so, why? For me I need the Switchbot plugin, and the Switchbot integration in HA is poor, and Homebridge is very stable in general. But the Reolink integration in HA is leagues ahead of anything Homebridge and Scyrpted use, and some of the automation options are better.

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You can try this, if your cameras don’t have rtsp https://github.com/thirtythreeforty/neolink Then I would run this https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui I like reolink, they are worth working with, they are one of the few reasonably priced camera manufacturers that aren’t based in mainland China, the support is really responsive. Sometimes you need to think outside the box a little with home automation to fit things into your system. I have yet to get my system up and running, I’m still building the house, but I will use reolink Poe cameras for security. I have a series of small …

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The Reolink cameras work well with scrypted and do not require a subscription.

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Check out Reolink cameras. They work great with scrypted and HomeKit, have a wide variety of options (Poe, WiFi with power, battery/solar, etc) and are all on sale right now on amazon. They also have the ability to record via NVR or microSD (or both) and they support most of the open standards for recording.

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I had the same problem with Reolink cams. I believe the developer of camera ui interface has had some bug issues and apparently hasn’t had the time to work through them. I moved on to using Scrypted on a Mac mini M1, and it is fantastic! Load times are incredibly fast. No problems integrating into HomeKit and recording with iCloud account.

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