It's not hard technically but USMobile needs to get "their partner" to implement it so there's hope but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Time to start a frigate vs motioneye vs blueiris thread!
That is one expensive doorbell!
I really hate YouTube reviews, but thanks. Maybe I should try another Reolink before I go elsewhere.
Yeah. I'm trying to stick to open protocols.
Thanks! I'll take a look.
You don't need to create an Amcrest account or let it dial home at all?
It used to work. I'm not surprised he found someone to disable it. He seems determined to make the place as painful as he can.
Since you mention USMobile, I'm on the pooled plan with 4 lines (soon to be 5) and I might hit $70 this month with all the travel. It's the first time we went over 5gb.
Their customer service is amazing. Where else do you have a CEO that will answer your emails when you have a good suggestion?
First thing I did after he bought Twitter is block him. Did I hurt his feelings?
(Not that I follow what's going on with Twitter anymore since I found Mastodon.)
Maybe my use case is unusual. This is my only camera and I'd prefer avoiding an NVR setup - mostly because I don't love the idea of running a constant hi def video stream over WiFi.
The documentation for this camera made me think it would be able to detect motion and record a video of activity from a few seconds before the motion was detected until a few seconds after it ends and FTP it to a server of my choice. From what I can see, it can successfully do this for snapshots but not for videos.
Back to your question, I upgraded immediately to the latest firmware before doing anything - the Home Assistant addon told me to. I then tried going back one version to see if it was just a bug in the latest firmware.
As an aside, the HA integration seems to be working flawlessly. It would be pretty easy to have HA trigger a capture of the video stream but that wouldn't contain the pre-motion capture that the doorbell seems to have.
As luck would have it, I finally got a response from Reolink through Walmart in response to my opening a return ticket a few days ago. I'll give them a couple more days to troubleshoot and update here.