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Reolink Doorbell with 2-way communication (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by returned@sh.itjust.works to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Hello guys! I've tried tinkering for couple of hours to get this to work, but I haven't had much luck.

Using the Reolink Doorbell PoE camera with their official app haven't brought me much luck with it's 2-way communication... there's too much of a lag with about 5-10 seconds RTT and is often unstable. I thought it was because of my internet connection but I've gotten an FTTH recently and it's still the same.

I've managed to install HACS without issue, I've tried out the go2rtc and I wanted to get the Frigate card to work with it but with not much luck... I've tried Googling what other people have done but it can get so confusing and difficult to get some sense out of it and I end up making even less sense out of it in the end..

Did anyone had experience with it? What was your final solution to get the 2-way audio to work?

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[โ€“] stargazer4416@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I've bought the same doorbell 2 weeks ago, and I've slowly been integrating it into HA since then.

Got go2rtc working, and it's sending me notifications with a camera snapshot when somebody rings the doorbell. I've updated go2rtc to the latest version as well if that matters.

I also have a microphone icon in the camera/frigate view, and can hear audio, but even though i can toggle that microphone, no sound actually comes out of the doorbell.

I'm using a separate proxmox lxc container to run Frigate, HA is on a VM.

[โ€“] returned@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

So can you explain to me in simple terms how the Doorbell, go2rtc, Frigate and HA are operating together? So I could at least know in what direction I should try and make them work together