# Understanding Reolink events

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/understanding-reolink-events/153575>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [April 9, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/understanding-reolink-events/153575 "2026-04-09T16:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/understanding-reolink-events/153575/3 "2026-04-09T22:32:10Z")

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You can use the “[Face++ app](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-face-face-recognition-for-homey/29058)” for instance, to compare the event snapshot with pre-saved pictures of known faces;

and there are forum topics about using AI to “tell” you what it detects on an event snapshot.  
One of those I just found:

> [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Gemini AI - Control your Smart Home with Google's Gemini](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-gemini-ai-control-your-smart-home-with-googles-gemini/149146/2):
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> Great app, Been using this with my Reolink Doorbell and describes who’s at the door via a push notification. Works very well. Was using similar integration in HA which is what I missed about HA but now can be done in homey. Thanks for making this

How this all works concerning the privacy of unaware visitors I don’t know.

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