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Just stumble upon the github project thirtythreeforty/neolink. Have a look at the pull request #199! It seems to work with argus 2!

Documentation is a bit confusing on this point...

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007011233-How-to-Capture-Live-JPEG-Image-of-Reolink-Cameras-via-Web-Browsers#article-comments

it says both "Applies to: All Reolink IP cameras ( B800, Reolink battery-powered cameras, Reolink E1, and Reolink E1 pro excluded )." including battery-powered, and later: "Note: Access via web browsers is currently not available for Reolink battery-powered cameras to save the battery life."

First, Reolink, could you please clarify the documentation so it's not ambiguous. Second, isn't it the users responsibility to manage battery life, and not yours by restricting access? For instance, my argus 2s are plugged to a solar panel and constantly at max charge during the day, it's a shame I can't access it via web browser...

My bad, I read wrong... the doc is coherent...
But the lack of features of the battery powered cameras is really annoying...

Hi Cynthia,
I don't mean this as being aggressive, nor as it being your fault, but we have read the "We will transfer to our engineers" so many times now in different threads, and yet never got any feedback from them. Does that mean that they are definitely not interested?
This answers keeps us hoping for a miracle. Could you try to find a real answer? Even if it's just to say it will never happen?
Thanks
Cheers
V.

Thank you for your answer. As previously said, i know this is not your personal doing, so no personal attack intended at all. But you realize that this looks like Reolink not caring about customers needs and requests. At the moment, battery powered cameras are able to send an email with snapshots attached when movement is detected, this is very heavy and unresponsive. But knowing this is possible means that a bare minimum of registering a webhook to receive these notifications is not a hardware limited impossibility. Webhooks are very light and fast, and this would already be an improvement.
Thank you for your patience,

Hi, unfortunately it's not possible as you describe it... Only workaround I've found was to use a dedicated Mac mini with the desktop client open, on witch I would remotely trigger a pre recorded automator action that would click on the snapshot button in the app. As you can imagine, not very responsive, nor reliable...