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Hi,
Currently, our camera only supports Google Home and Alexa. We have not been tested for compatibility with Homekit. But we will collect customers' needs and forward them to R&D team and let them arrange the plan in time!

Hi Cynthia,
From the outside it appears that Reolink has some really talented hardware engineers but their software team is significantly under resourced.
HomeKit was released 6 years ago and support isn't even on your development roadmap yet, I don't think it is realistic for your customers to expect it will ever be supported within the lifetime of the products they own.
Given that your software still requires Flash which was deprecated in favour of HTML5 in 2014 and went EOL in 2017, I think you have other priorities that will consume your organisations software team bandwidth for the foreseeable future.
I understand that HomeKit support does have some significant software/security requirements. Maybe rather than putting it off indefinitely you could investigate HomeBridge support which is much easier (should take <10min to setup in a lab) and will solve the problem for your customers who are motivated to integrate Reolink products into the apple ecosystem.
While we are on the integration topic. Is there any way to reach the raw streams of cameras that are sitting behind a NVR?
This needs to be possible in order to avoid having to purchase a second PoE switch to run the cameras. Maybe it would be possible to setup a simple port forward arrangement in the NVR NAT table.
Eg if the NVR is on 10.0.0.2 each camera could be available on an incremental port;
camera xx - rtsp://10.0.0.2:554xx/h264Preview_01_main

camera 01 - rtsp://10.0.0.2:55401/h264Preview_01_main
camera 02 - rtsp://10.0.0.2:55402/h264Preview_01_main
                      """
camera 16 - rtsp://10.0.0.2:55416/h264Preview_01_main

Hi all,

Trying to bring my Reolink cameras into HomeKit via HomeBridge using the Homebridge Camera FFmpeg plugin. Unfortunately I can't seem to get the live video feed to work (stills work fine).
According to the logs, HomeBridge is performing the video transcode but the HomeKit end devices just will not display the stream.
I've tried both the RLC-410 and RLC-420 cameras without success.
Has anyone got this working?

If I disable libx264 transcoding and just pass the raw h.264 stream from the camera to HomeKit then it does work.

My config is pretty default.

            "name": "Camera FFmpeg",
            "interfaceName": "en0",
            "cameras": [
                {
                    "name": "Retreat",
                    "model": "RLC-410",
                    "serialNumber": "ec:71:db:e5:44:8b",
                    "videoConfig": {
                        "source": "-i rtsp://xxx:xxx@192.168.178.142:554/h264Preview_01_main",
                        "stillImageSource": "-i http://192.168.178.142:80/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&user=xxx&password=xxx",
                        "audio": true,
                        "debug": true
                    }
                }
            ],
            "platform": "Camera-ffmpeg"

Great work Daniel. I suppose it was somewhat intuitive when you think about it. The same process to pull a feed directly off a camera works to pull it off the NVR, just increment the number in the RTSP/HTTP URL to see each of the 16 cameras.

In my case due to password authentication it's;

rtsp://username:password@ip_addr_nvr:554/h264Preview_01_main
... through to ...
rtsp://username:password@ip_addr_nvr:554/h264Preview_16_main

And for static images;

http://ip_addr_nvr:80/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=1&user=username&password=password
... through to ...
http://ip_addr_nvr:80/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=16&user=username&password=password

Just remember to use the IP address, username and password of the NVR and not of the cameras.

It would be great if the Reolink team would update their documentation to include instructions for access cameras directly and via the NVR so others don't have to go through this.