You don’t need another machine running 24/7 since Camect runs on its own hardware.
But you may still have a reason to run both Camect and Blue Iris (I use both).
It's its own self contained unit...
Blue iris and camect can bring it in via rtsp...(mine is hooked up via rtsp)
Strange. I connected mine to my original doorbell (have to use a resistor) and it works just fine. The electronic chime that came with it is on the 3rd floor in my wife's office. Though I have an electronic door bell unit from home depot, not a mechanical one so I don't know how that plays out.
Yes, you can do this with the older PoE and WiFi doorbell versions. The new battery doorbell version does not support this without the Home Hub.
Speculation on my part, but the resistor is essentially putting a partial short across the power leads going to the Reolink. The resistance allows enough power to go to the Reolink to prevent it from shutting off but I suspect your digital chime will still sound with the voltage drop caused by the resistor. It's unlikely a mechanical chime would be as forgiving.
My backdoor reolink is the battery operated one (I couldn't get a network wire into the brick there, only standard 2 wire doorbell would fit due to it being two course and the way it would have to come up from the basement) and works fine with my Camect.
My digital chime still uses a 16v transformer so not sure. Typically if the resistor isn't in there the chime only comes on momentarily. (this applies to both units)
I assume you mean the WiFi one--neither of the older gen Reolink doorbells have batteries which is why they don't support mechanical chimes. In order for the mechanical chime to sound, the wires going to the doorbell need to be shorted which completes the 16-24 VAC circuit going to the mechanical chime. These wires also provide power to the doorbell so shorting them effectively removes the power to the doorbell. And without a battery to keep the doorbell powered on, it shuts down and reboots when the button is released.
The new gen unit does have a battery. It runs off the battery and the 16-24VAC going to the doorbell is used to charge the battery. Pressing the doorbell button shorts the voltage going to the doorbell which completes the circuit going to the mechanical chime. But since the doorbell is running on battery power it doesn't affect it other than temporarily interrupting the voltage going to its charging circuit.
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Right I have the wifi one on the back door, and the poe on the front door. I have a split circuit to the single digital chime (right not mechanical) and it works fine for that. Been very happy overall. I don't have the battery one... Both mine were bought in feb so I'm not sure where that places them...
