I have a Reolink P850 set up at a boathouse so I can regularly monitor the water level and the bird species present. It works quite well, and the 16x zoom is perfect for this purpose.
As a side feature, I take a photo every 5 minutes and save it to my FTP server on the Synology. That works perfectly too.
What I haven’t managed to do yet is create a video of a pan from point A to point B, which I’d like to run automatically every 30 minutes and also save via FTP to my home server.
Manually this works fine with one click in the app or the webinterface, but I found no way to do that automatically.
A Raspberry Pi 4B is installed in the boathouse, running the BirdNET software, and the P850 is connected via PoE to the eth0 port. The Raspberry Pi is connected to my home via Wi-Fi with a VPN, so I can access the camera not only through the app but also from home via HTTP.
The camera is also connected to the Reolink Cloud and has a 512GB SD card in the SD card slot, so either the cloud or the SD card can be used to implement the solution.
The question now is, how can I automatically perform such a video pan every 30 minutes? ChatGPT suggests PC software or ONVIF scripts on the Raspberry Pi, which actually sounds reasonable. Where can I find a solution that works for my project?
Thank you very much for your input and best regards from Switzerland ...
As a side feature, I take a photo every 5 minutes and save it to my FTP server on the Synology. That works perfectly too.
What I haven’t managed to do yet is create a video of a pan from point A to point B, which I’d like to run automatically every 30 minutes and also save via FTP to my home server.
Manually this works fine with one click in the app or the webinterface, but I found no way to do that automatically.
A Raspberry Pi 4B is installed in the boathouse, running the BirdNET software, and the P850 is connected via PoE to the eth0 port. The Raspberry Pi is connected to my home via Wi-Fi with a VPN, so I can access the camera not only through the app but also from home via HTTP.
The camera is also connected to the Reolink Cloud and has a 512GB SD card in the SD card slot, so either the cloud or the SD card can be used to implement the solution.
The question now is, how can I automatically perform such a video pan every 30 minutes? ChatGPT suggests PC software or ONVIF scripts on the Raspberry Pi, which actually sounds reasonable. Where can I find a solution that works for my project?
Thank you very much for your input and best regards from Switzerland ...
