Self Hosting App for Reolink Cams
Hi Everyone, About a month ago I announced an app I developed to solve multiple issues I've had with Reolink Cams. I developed it to serve the following purpose: Serve as an RTSP bridge. (makes 1 connection to your cams on port 9000 and fan out RTSP streams to many clients, e.g. Frigate). A simple WebUi to monitor your cams Use your camera's in-built capabilities for detection. e.g. Person, Vehicle, etc. (Reolink cams are very good at this). You dont need a GPU or a powerful PC. it can run on a potato. Integrate with Home Assistant via MQTT. (I added a cemprehesive list of sensors and controls here). No 3rd Party dependencies. (e.g. GStreamer). Its self contained. Multiple hosting options: Home Assistant directly, Docker, Windows App. Supports Video Encryption. You can control a lot of camera functions from within the app. I also made security a priority. You can integrate it with your local LLM for "story telling". It sends screenshots of events to your LLM to get a description of the scene. I spent a crazy amount of time enhancing the Timeline page. (View recordings at up to 16x across multiple cams synced together, Auto skip to next event, exporting, bookmarking etc). Lots of people from the home assistant community have started using it for about a month now. I've made lots of upgrades since then and added support for more cameras and older firmware and I think it'll be useful to anyone running Reolink Cams (even battery based ones). Feel free to have a look here: github.com/borexola/neolink.net