Hi!
Just got two Argus 4 pro home and set them up in the reolink app but it’s not possible to set them up in Homey.
I’m supposed to setup https,onvif or rtsp but those options aren’t available and homey can’t find them scanning.
Also it asks for username and password with the user admin.. I’ve never set a username? Is admin default?
TIA!
That’s a battery camera, those don’t expose ONVIF/RTSP to save battery life. These cameras are not supported by Homey.
Wow.. Now that’s utterly shit then. Money well spent on pure POS.
Not even with a home base?
No, likely not since it needs ONVIF/RTSP. The home base is probably a simple storage device for the cameras. RTSP is usually used for continous connections by NVRs, so that’s the reason why they haven’t added it to battery cameras
So the Reolink cameras are completely useless unless you buy the NVR versions..
I don’t get why anyone would want them? They can’t be automated in any way?
If you want to turn them off you have to go in on each camera and turn of the PIR or they record and notify all the time so you would never have a camera inside or in the garden or anything where you are moving?
When are they used then?
To use them in the way they were intended to? So that means: Reolink mobile app for viewing and SD card or cloud subscription for recording.
I also have a battery camera (Tapo) without Homey integeration, but that still works fine within the Tapo mobile app and that’s all that I need to use it for really
No of course you can view video I the native app.. That’s what I do with Arlos but turning them on and off (or detection) depending on if I’m home or not isn’t even possible with reolink cameras..
That has to be the most basic function of a camera, especially battery cameras that you only want to be on when needed to save on batteries?
With reolink battery cameras I have to go in on each and every camera and push pir off.. The native app don’t have an automation function for even that. Nor can Homey do that with the integration..
Isn’t that the most basic thing for an integration? Turning something on and off.
No, because moat camera manufacturers don’t allow automation in the first place, just like Reolink with their battery cameras. For example, Osaio doesn’t allow any automation in the first place. No APIs, no ONVIF, only Google Home and Alexa, just like most camera manufacturers.
The only consumer camera brands that I know of that allow ONVIF are Tapo and Reolink, so it’s quite normal with security cameras to only allow the official mobile app.
Especially with battery cameras, because they go to a “deep sleep” mode after being inactive, which means that they wake up from a ping from the server (f.e. when you open the live feed) or when it uploads a clip to the server (on motion). Having a persistent ONVIF connection means that the camera needs to be always recording and streaming to the NVR, which means that the battery won’t last long.
But why not? That’s really stupid, all you need to do is turn of the pir to save battery and stop recording.
That’s what Arlo has been doing for 10 years?
It also detects when I’m coming and going, even though I control them via Homey, it’s still possible.
The major battery killer is recording and sending the data. Wake on lan doesn’t use much and just turn on and off the PIR will do the trick. And apparently there is an api as that’s what you use for wired cameras.
But you mean that you record more or less 247365 on all your cameras? Every movement in and outside the house? It has to be 99.9% wasted recordings?
Including yourself more or less naked.. 
I don’t want to see myself naked.. It’s bad enough on a teams meeting seeing my face..
So you mean the “Privacy mode” like on Tapo? The only way that would be possible is by reverse engineering the mobile app and replicate the requests to the Reolink server and then send those requests from Homey instead. AFAIK they don’t have a cloud API (like most camera manufacturers) so that’s likely the only way to automate it via Homey
No, but usually ONVIF or RTSP is used only for NVRs, and those can record 24/7, or at least have to stay live streaming 24/7 which drains the battery very quickly.
