The batteries part is the problem. With the feature set you want, battery powered cameras just won't last long enough to be practical.
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Did I miss something? I haven't found any camera software that will work with the solar/battery cameras. I have one of the Argus cameras, but the rest will be POE , but if I could pull that Argus in that would be great!
These work fine with my Camect and I know it works with blue iris
What do you mean by will work.
In the past I have tried battery powered cameras and even Eufy's powered cameras with a service called Motion on linux. In many cases these devices don't send a constant stream to the NVR device. What they do is they will send a feed when the device detects motion. Until they detect motion they will just use PIR as that uses much less power. This means you won't get a stream most of the time from those devices. Does that sounds like what you are seeing?
I need to go back and look (its been a few weeks) but there was a setting that talked about a (I think) RTSM (?) setting that doesn't seem to be available in the reolink settings. Even the documentation days the battery cameras cant be used with blue iris, etc. If i can find a way to do it that would be awesome. I’ll crack open blue iris and see if i can find it again. Not sure it matter if it is blue iris specifically, the reolink documents read like it would apply to all such systems. I8m going POE on the rest, but would be a benefit if i could save the one camera i already have.
Could it be RTSP. That is RealTime Streaming Protocol and is fairly common.
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The power source of the camera doesn’t matter so much, it’s the RTSP support you need.
Your Argus cameras don’t support RTSP and you won’t be able to use them with an external NVR.
I think Rick’s using other Reolink cameras that do support RTSP, even if he’s powering them with solar (is the solar panel charging a battery?).
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Yes mine all mine including my doorbells support rtsp
yep. Records 24/7 Battery only gets low on real overcast days but haven't had it completely die. I'm sure that could change if the battery stops charging fully (ill likely just take it apart and swap out the battery when that happens)
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This doesn't really integrate with Hubitat, but this is what I am doing. I run Linux. There is an application called Motion. I have a hard drive set up and Motion configured to record video to that hard drive.
RTSP, thats the ticket! As to power source, the documentation I was looking ar indicated none if the battery powered cameras had that, just the POE or mains powered did. . So, back to plan a i guess.
