{"id":10211,"date":"2023-08-01T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10211"},"modified":"2023-08-02T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T02:20:05","slug":"reolink-wireless-doorbell-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10211","title":{"rendered":"Reolink Wireless Doorbell – First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of Scott’s got a Eufy doorbell on sale from Amazon, so we started checking out camera\/doorbell devices again. Eufy didn’t seem to allow local access to the video stream. We found three companies that did<\/em> offer direct access to the RTSP stream: Doorbird, Amcrest, and Reolink. The Doorbird ones were like a thousand dollars … and, for way under a grand, I could DIY something. Amcrest looked like a viable solution, but Amazon had the Reolink ones for sixty bucks less — including a $10 “prime member” discount price. We bought two and set them up inside the house.<\/p>\n

The physical hardware is an oval shaped plastic box with a camera & IR ring near the top and a glowing button (you can<\/em> turn the LED light off in the config) for visitors to press. I wish the logo wasn’t printed onto the plastic, though.<\/p>\n

Once you enable RTSP under the advanced network settings, you can access the primary (high resolution) video feed at rtsp:\/\/username:password@doorbell.example:554\/h264Preview_01_main and the secondary (640×480) video feed at rtsp:\/\/username:password@doorbell.example:554\/h265Preview_01_sub<\/p>\n

I like that you can set up a “read only” user — our Zoneminder installation doesn’t need to be able to configure the devices. It will also grab a photo to make a time lapse series — while seeing the driveway over time might not be too interesting, having a time lapse of our front yard will be really cool. This requires adding an SD card to the doorbell, but still very cool.<\/p>\n

5GHz worked fine in the house, but we had a lot of drop-outs once it was mounted at the door.<\/p>\n

You can upload your own key pair for the web server, so visiting the https page doesn’t throw an invalid certificate error. This is a personal thing that really bothers me with a lot of IoT implementations. It’s such a simple thing — there’s already a locally generated key pair, why not let me upload my own with a hostname or SAN that matches what I will be accessing. Even if you don’t have your own CA — you can get a free cert from Let’s Encrypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fisheye camera catches a large field — we can see the entire front entrance — although I now understand why there are dual-camera doorbells with a “package camera”. If the camera is angled so you can see the face of someone pressing the button, you cannot see their feet. Or the ground where a package would be placed.<\/p>\n

I don’t like that there doesn’t appear to be any way to ring the house door chime. There also doesn’t seem to be a way to use different tones for different doorbells. While we’ll get motion alerts from Zoneminder and be able to view both doorbell video feeds to see where the ring occurred … it would be nice to assign unique chimes to each doorbell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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