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Reolink has had some concerns over privacy, and transparency. You're required to use their app, even if you're linked into HomeAssisstant/Frigate. Most of their cameras also don't offer continuous recording, which has made me really regretting my Reolink E1 Outdoor.
Yeah. FOSS or fuck 'em. I am on Graphene and will never install anything from google. Android means the app is on F-Droid. If it is on the google proprietary framework, it is not Android.
Frigate is a camera server. In order to link Reolink into it you're required to download their app, register for an account, and then setup your server. The fact that you're required to download their app, and make an account is the problem.
It's entirely possible I missed some method of doing this that doesn't have this problem, but google turned up no results when I was setting it up.
Maybe the doorbell/wifi cams are different but that is definitely not the case of my PoE cam. Never used the app, just using the RTSP stream.
Same.
The battery powered cameras and doorbells wake on motion and as far as I can tell do not support rtsp sadly.
As others have said you can set these Reolink PoE cameras up on different systems without using their app forever.
I for one have set up Reolink cameras on Synology's Surveillance Station successfully after a one time setup with Reolink's app. Meaning I used their app to get it connected to my WiFi and then immediately set the camera's DNS etc. to it's own IP.
Once that was accomplished I set up the camera on Synology and now I only use Synology's app for access. In no way does Reolink successfully phone home after this. While it isn't ideal it's pretty great once this is completed.