The next step in my HA journey is adding cameras; indoor, outdoor, and doorbell so I've been exploring my options. I had originally intended to do a Frigate setup, I even have a Coral module and PC to do it with, but then I discovered Reolink.
Without having any experience with them they look nearly ideal. They seem to have tight integration with HA 2023.3 or later and their pricing and functionality look good.
They seem like a no brainer but I've noticed that they're often NOT the first recommendation in the HA Community. Why is that and why shouldn't I use them?
I’ve got two 820As and tried getting them to work with frigate with no success. I am a bit of a Linux noob, so I’m sure I could have tweaked some more, but I instead tried out Blue Iris and they worked without issue. I’ve now got AI detection and motion alerts going to my phone through home assistant and they were fairly straightforward to set up.