Linux client support ?

Gigareolink

Linux client asap please

Zap

+1 Linux Client Please

royalt1217

Clearly Win 11 and TPM 2.0 requirement will affect the PC landscape, time to work on a Linux App for Reolink Client. Rather than send thousands of perfectly good pc's to the landfill Linux can hopefully mitigate some of this waste. +100,000+ to Linux client option

Renrew

+1 Linux Client Please

user_743381982818497

+2 Linux Client required ASAP

user_747429298868363

+1 Linux Client, please.

helryser

+1 for Linux Client

Stuart

No point in keep asking for a Linux client, Reolink are mostly deaf to customer feedback/requests.

They have so many issues outstanding with their Android app on a tablet that have been around for years and they've not bothered to fix. So I see very little chance of them ever developing their client for Linux.

You are far better off going for a setup that isn't Reolink. If you've ever used their Windows/Android software (and even their camera/NVR web interfaces) it's all pretty poor with features that should be there, but aren't; poor layout, far too touchy/random swipe responses, forgetting settings, firmware updates that kill their hardware or require you to hard reset it and re-setup the device from scratch and on and on. So they clearly don't have a high quality development team. I could fill pages with all the bugs and annoyances I've experienced with their software over the (now over 7) years I've used their cameras.

I have a 16 channel Reolink NVR and 8 active cameras (probably used more than 15 over the years) so I'm not just raining criticism on Reolink without experience. Their hardware is mostly decent (their Trackmix cameras are excellent), but it's all sadly let down by very low quality software. If you just want cameras and a dedicated NVR then you should be OK, but if you want to do anything exotic - like heaven forbid use Linux as your daily OS which I do - then you're out of luck unless you want to jump through WINE loops and such. Ironic really when you can bet their camera hardware OS is Linux based.

So for all those asking, by all means carry on, but you'd have a more productive day banging your head against the wall. I'd be delighted if Reolink proved me wrong and over night first developed some decent software and then secondly a Linux client, but I very, VERY much doubt they ever will.

ucstefan

hello - thank you for your good work - so complete it with an app for linux (me using linux mint), please - this would be great !

czeckks

+1 linux support.

Clayton

+1 Linux support.

kylegp

+1 Linux support. This is very badly needed.

sid

+1 Linux support

user_840185511088286

+1 for Linux support. I have to scrounge to find a Windows machine to do initial confituration on the cameras that do not have the web portal enabled by default. What is more surprising is that you can't even do this initial config on these certain cameras with the Android app.

Carmine

1+ for linux client

Squelch

Just to add another request for Linux support.

I'll add some rationale to this request too - With Windows 10 support in a state of flux regarding how continued support after 2025 will unfold, and the opaque and strict requirements for Windows 11 upgrades, it is foreseeable that there will be a substantial userbase moving to the Linux desktop environment for their home security platform. Some progress has been made regarding platforms such as HomeAssistant, but I do not believe it is mature or feature complete enough to warrant choosing the Reolink ecosystem at the current time.

I have recently acquired an Altus PT Ultra camera, and whilst the build quality and Android/Windows clients seem to be very capable, I was very disappointed that it was so difficult to try and bring the camera into both my Linux environment, and that HomeAssistant required extra hardware by way of the HomeHub to even be able to access the camera. Ironically enough, the camera is detected correctly through HA auto-discover, but simply cannot be accessed by HomeAssistant to configure due to no Web server, nor can its streams be accessed form any RTSP or MQTT client to manually add access to the output or controls.

What would be very nice, in the near term, would be a Linux CLI client that allowed users to then connect other services such as gstream, or any compatible RTSP or NVR software, together with being able to control the device via MQTT via some kind of bridge. I see some attempts have been made to reverse engineer the Baichuan Protocol to make such a bridge, but a native system would be so much preferable. A web server is not necessarily required on those devices that do not already provide the feature, just the ability to attach to the unencripted streams and to be able to send commands.

My ultimate aim is to incorporate this camera into a full Home Automation setup where I can detect events within the camera's scope via external sensors, send a command to direct the camera to a preset view to monitor and track the activity, and to be able to access and view the subsequent recordings from the Home automation system. The Altus PT Ultra almost fulfils these wishes, but falls short on a Linux client enabling such desires. There appears to many other cameras that are also missing this ability and would benefit immensely from a simple client deamon and API. GUIs can be an afterthought and would probably be community developed based on the opened access that Reolink could feasibly provide. Further Windows and IOS development brings licensing, and development costs, whereas an API and Linux client could bring a reduction to these hurdles.

Dear Reolink Team, please seriously consider a Linux Client or API?