Reolink - Battery Video Doorbell

Don’t get the battery one. I bought it and returned it. It doesn’t have ONVIF, RTSP, or any of the things that would make integrate with HA or Scrypted, and the battery constantly goes dead even though I had it connected to my transformer. Just sucked all around for this purpose. I replaced it with the hardwired wi-fi version and it’s 100x better. I use it mostly with Scrypted and Homekit, but it is added to my HA instance as well. The difference in image quality is negligible to my eyes although the battery version did have a wider FOV.

Reolink battery version does not work with HA unless you also buy their DVR.

With 230v running through the chime and button (which sounds crazy to me) you could probably get away with using a Zigbee dry contact sensor like a Shelly for chime events. Anything else is going to require a transformer to step down to a “normal” level of 12-24 volts. The Reolink WiFi will work fine with this but won’t drive a mechanical chime. You have to use the one it came with. It also comes with a transformer, at least the US version does, (a small power brick) that you might be able to use the existing wiring in your wall for after it’s disconnected from the mains. That’s exactly what I did. My existing doorbell transformer wasn’t adequate so I just used the one that came with it instead. It came with a wireless chime that I use inside the house. The WiFi + battery version can drive a mechanical chime typical in USA applications but it sucks and doesn’t even work with HA anyway.

Mine started doing a high usage notification ever since the last firmware update.   It's a battery model that is wired.  Its always at 89-90% battery when I check it and in no danger of ever running low unless the power is out Is there a way to mute this particular alarm?

Get the battery powered Reolink doorbell. That will work with your existing chime. I just installed one a few weeks ago and it has worked well. You lose the ability to get continuous recording capabilities, but it'll charge the battery from the doorbell transformer so you can pretty much set it up and forget it.

Reolink's battery doorbell ticks all your boxes.

Skip the ring, grab a [Reolink doorbell camera](https://amzn.to/42pUJsa) Has everything you need and zero subscriptions.   Wired (poe) is always best, but they have wifi versions as well.   Been using them for 10 years and extremely happy with Reolink.  Their other cameras blow ring out of the water, and they don't allow anyone you don't want to access your cameras, unlike ring with it's backdoor access.  

I have a Reolink 2K Battery.  This does support mechanical chime.  Door bell is a battery base, but charged by your doorbell transformer. It steals enough juice to charge, but not activate the chime.  Chime works without issue. Videos sent to my NVR. I get the phone notifications. No subscriptions or fees. 

.. Because the sods started to charge the earth for using it. Bye nest hello reolink.

No worries shame as nest was good at one point but swapping to reolink paid for itself in no time given there's no need for a subscription

My WiFi hard wired exposes all of that and streams perfectly. Strange the battery version doesn't expose the streams

Reolink battery doorbell, It has apps for windows and Android. These are what I use, so I can't comment on other systems.

I have the reolink battery operated one and it does not work with Frigate. FYI.

> RTSP one available still but the RTSP is still unstable and for the most part if you don't want frame skips you still need to use the flv stream for recording.

>Could you explain this more please The RTSP feed (at least with current firmware) loses / skips frames it isn't smooth. https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/camera_specific#reolink-cameras I record off the primary stream using the FLV stream, and only use the RTSP for TWO WAY audio support. streams: doorbell: #Reolink Doorbell - ffmpeg:http://192.168.103.6/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=admin&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus doorbell_sub: #Reolink Doorbell - rtsp://admin:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@192.168.103.6:554/Preview_01_sub - ffmpeg:doorbell_sub#audio=opus # transcodes audio to opus for webrtc compatibility

As a warning **there are currently 3 DIFFERENT Doorbells**, only the POE and WiFi ones can be used DIRECTLY with Home assistant. - Reolink Video Doorbell PoE - Reolink Video Doorbell WiFi - Reolink Video Doorbell (Battery) The Reolink Video Doorbell (Battery) can't DIRECTLY be used with home assistant. It does NOT have direct RTSP support. The other two can.