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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/moosepiss on 2025-07-24 00:07:10+00:00.
Recently invested in the Reolink Home Hub to store all of the recordings from my battery powered cameras. The integration with Home Assistant, while it does give access to camera controls, notifications and live feeds, it does not provide a way to access videos that are stored on the Hub.
Here's what I was after: A dashboard that display the most recent motion event from each of my cameras. Do this by leveraging the Hub, so as not to wake/drain the cameras.
I built a HA integration that works around the current limitation and:
- Browses Reolink Home Hub to find the most recent event recording per camera
- Downloads the mp4 to HA box and generates jpg and animated gif
- Populates HA sensor information with the media urls and other extracted information (time, event type)
- Never wakes/accesses a camera
- Exposes a custom card that makes it easy/pretty to display
What I've created would definitely need to be tested on systems other than my own. I haven't looked into making available in HACS, but might. Happy to share. At this point I'm looking to gauge interest.
Most recent motion event from each Reolink Camera, via Home Hub
Edit:
Github: https://github.com/rcourtna/reolink_recordings
Can do some tech support in this reddit thread.
