Unlock the full power of your Reolink cameras inside Home Assistant.
This video walks through adding Reolink cameras, enabling 4K streams, integrating with Frigate, setting up Go2RTC, configuring masks, zones and alerts, adding PTZ control, and using the Advanced Camera Card to build a dashboard.
Whether you’re tracking birds, cows, cars, people—or squirrels pretending to be mice—this guide shows how to get the best performance from Reolink, Frigate and Home Assistant.
What’s inside:
• Adding Reolink cameras to Home Assistant
• Fluent versus Clear 4K streams
• Enabling disabled entities
• Full Frigate configuration walkthrough
• Go2RTC stream setup
• Motion masks, zones and thresholds
• PTZ control and bird classification
• Using the Advanced Camera Card
• Adding cameras to dashboards
• Real-world detections including cows, birds, cars, people, foxes and sheep
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Setup Overview
00:52 Adding Reolink Integration to Home Assistant
02:21 Enabling the 4K Clear Stream and PTZ Controls
04:39 Overview of Frigate NVR
06:07 Frigate YAML Configuration and Go2RTC
09:33 Motion Masks, Detection Retention and Object Tracking
13:52 Frigate UI Tour
19:35 Advanced Camera Card in Home Assistant
22:10 Customising Substreams, Menus and Full-Screen Views
29:17 Camera Hardware Review and Summary