RLN36 Reolink Duo 3 Record on alarm input and save video segment --Will this work?

Rogere

Before I shell out for RLN36 and Reolink Duo 3 Poe it would be nice to get a sanity check on how I want the system to work. My plan is to setup the Duo camera to record vehicles passing by. When an external alarm input trigger is applied to the RLN36, I would like the RLN36 to record pre and post alarm event maybe 30 seconds. Ideally this segment of video would be automatically saved to the hard drive as a discrete video file identified with a date/time file name. Does all or part of this scheme appear reasonable?

If the individual event file saving is not possible, are alarm event videos somehow exportable individually or as a 'class' or group? The I would need to break out each event separately somehow.

It does not sound like there is an API to control the RLN36. This would seem to be ideal for my application as my experience is as programmer. I am new to the Home automation topic. Does the RLN36 integrate with popular home assistants so I could manually control the above operation?

Thank you for sharing thoughts and experiences on my proposed system.

Rogere

I have the RLN36 and Duo3 camera running now. I would like to export some recorded video. I inserted formatted USB thumb drive and have tried all the NVR functions but all fail with 'not enough space' error. I am suspicious that this is impossible to do. It looks like I will need to get rid of the system unless I hear from support this is possible. Too bad. All was going pretty well except what good is the system if you cannot export any data?