5:40 Sorry mate, wrong info, just get the new firmware that does not require flash. All mine updated easily. Matter of course, any device that has firmware, software, you should be advertising people to get latest version and also to keep checking for updates!
Whenever I open my app, I do not see any notification saying that new firmware is available. After upgrading I can confirm that flash is no longer needed. Here's how I upgraded the firmware: 1. Go to website and find the newest firmware version, download and extract. 2. Find out the IP, and then go and log in from the web browser. 3. Go to Settings -> Maintenance and upgrade the firmware from there. It would be easier if the app just said "New update available, would you like to upgrade?" This current process isn't something an average user would know about, especially because there isn't a notification. I will contact Reolink to see if this feature could get implemented. Thanks for the tip!
Yes actually. You can do it with Amazon Echo. Using the Home Assistant Cloud ($5/mo) you can expose the cameras to Amazon Echo. Then you can say "Alexa, show camera on TV." If I try this now with my Amazon Echo, and try to show in a Chromecast TV, it tells me that it has to be an Amazon Fire Device.
I am using Zonemimder for monitoring only. I found out that feeding 7-8 2.5k/4k streams into Zonemimder used 16gb+ RAM and caused a lot of errors. I now record everything with the reolink DVR and feed the secondary 360p feeds into Zonemimder. This way zmNinja launches in about a second and allows for quick viewing. I also feed the Zonemimder streams into Home Assistant.
@@DaveOTech Interesting. I have some old hardware I was thining of using for ZM / HA, 6 core Xeon, 24GB RAM. I did not think how it may scale down the road with more feeds.
5:40 Sorry mate, wrong info, just get the new firmware that does not require flash. All mine updated easily.
Matter of course, any device that has firmware, software, you should be advertising people to get latest version and also to keep checking for updates!
Whenever I open my app, I do not see any notification saying that new firmware is available. After upgrading I can confirm that flash is no longer needed.
Here's how I upgraded the firmware:
1. Go to website and find the newest firmware version, download and extract.
2. Find out the IP, and then go and log in from the web browser.
3. Go to Settings -> Maintenance and upgrade the firmware from there.
It would be easier if the app just said "New update available, would you like to upgrade?" This current process isn't something an average user would know about, especially because there isn't a notification.
I will contact Reolink to see if this feature could get implemented.
Thanks for the tip!
@@DaveOTech Yes it would be a lot better and better for security if the app could do the update.
you showed how you physically install the cmera but didnt show where you added the camera in HA 5:46
there is also a custom addon for reolink cameras in hacks
Do you happen to know if it still work with the stream component using this method?
Anyone know if there is a way to Cast to Amazon devices? Cheers
Yes actually. You can do it with Amazon Echo. Using the Home Assistant Cloud ($5/mo) you can expose the cameras to Amazon Echo. Then you can say "Alexa, show camera on TV."
If I try this now with my Amazon Echo, and try to show in a Chromecast TV, it tells me that it has to be an Amazon Fire Device.
@@DaveOTech Thanks mate 👍
@@shaunwhiteley3544 If you end up trying this out, please let me know how it goes.
Are you no longer using Zoneminder?
I am using Zonemimder for monitoring only. I found out that feeding 7-8 2.5k/4k streams into Zonemimder used 16gb+ RAM and caused a lot of errors.
I now record everything with the reolink DVR and feed the secondary 360p feeds into Zonemimder.
This way zmNinja launches in about a second and allows for quick viewing. I also feed the Zonemimder streams into Home Assistant.
@@DaveOTech Interesting. I have some old hardware I was thining of using for ZM / HA, 6 core Xeon, 24GB RAM. I did not think how it may scale down the road with more feeds.
@@Being_Joe it could also be that my particular configuration was causing extra ram usage.
does the camera loop?
What do you mean by that? Does it turn on its own?
@@DaveOTech does it record over old footage once the capacity is full?
@@Allthingsvadya Yes, it can take up to a 64 GB sd card.
@@Allthingsvadya Yes you can do that in the settings.
Infrared lights stopped working after 4 months,
I'm sorry to hear that, Reolink should be able to help provide a replacement for something like that.