My newly bought Argus2 always sends alarm messages via Email when the camera was woke up by the desktop or mobile client even if there was no motion. However while the camera is sleeping the PIR seems to never trigger. Anyone observed a similar behavior?

Dominik

That's a pity as there is no technical reason for this limitation. And as the motion detection of the camera does not work for me and if it would work only send a picture the camera is almost useless Will need to try some reverse engineering of the protocol.

I just bought a Reolink Argus 2 and I'm pretty satisfied with manufacturing and image quality. However I was really dissapointed that the camera is only usable with the Reolink software (I could have known before If I had done some more research ). This makes this camera almost unusable for me and it is just a nice gimmick or toy.
Is there any documentation on the used protocol available? Are there any plans to support integration into thirdparty software?
The minimum functionality that I would require:
* Trigger recording
* Retrieve recording (Mail, FTP, HTTP... I don't care as long as I can implement it)

I would like to integrate the camera in my home automation and I'm willing to do some coding but I would like to avoid doing everything by reverse engineering.
While I understand that the camera can't support a permanent live stream due to battery constraints I don't understand at all why no interface at all is provided.

Dominik