Reolink surveillance camera

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Hello,

I have a Reolink surveillance system (NVR + 4 POE cameras). Right now everything is on the REOLINK app, but I’d like to capture events (person and vehicle detection …) on Gladys so I can create scenes.

Do you have any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

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Hi!

I use Reolink cameras too, but with Frigate as the NVR.
I use Node-RED to let Frigate and Gladys communicate over MQTT.
I imagine there might be a Reolink plugin in Node-RED… But I haven’t taken the time to look.

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I’ll take a look, thanks

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There is indeed a Node-RED Reolink plugin:

I looked at the plugin’s code, it’s really very simple — it calls an API on the camera every 2 seconds ^^

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I did indeed find the same thing.
I’m nose-deep in the CGI API docs trying to understand how all this works. I’m not a fan of polling (that will be a last resort), I’ll see if there’s a webhook or something.

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Keep us posted!

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So I don’t have a camera, I’m not a developer but I have a fertile imagination :slight_smile:

If you manage to come up with something with webhooks, maybe you could test with matterbridge and the webhook plugin, and see if your cameras become Matter-compatible, and that would be pretty great… I’m just saying :wink:

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