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Reolink NVR/camera API PyPI package
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Wifi Strength #26

Closed CrashM85 closed 1 year ago

CrashM85 commented 1 year ago

Hi, Do the wifi cameras allow you to query the current wifi strength and could that be exposed as a sensor entity to HA?

starkillerOG commented 1 year ago

@CrashM85 yes the signal strength can be queryed using GetWifiSignal, so yes it could be added as a sensor in HomeAssistant. Although the number will be between 0 and 255 which is a bit arbitrary, it is unfortunately not in dbm.

I will add it to my to do list of feature requests. However since I have many things to implement, this may take quite some time before I get to it.

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starkillerOG commented 1 year ago

This library now supports the wifi signal strength query with this commmit I made: https://github.com/starkillerOG/reolink_aio/commit/69097feb54d7a431480a24b8db03098ba98587fe

Soon I will add the nessesary code to Home Asssitant to add it as a sensor.

CrashM85 commented 1 year ago

Thanks! Have a coffee on me.

starkillerOG commented 1 year ago

Thanks!

starkillerOG commented 1 year ago

The wifi signal sensor will be available in HomeAssistant 2023.8 that will be released on August 2nd 2023.

Therefore I will close this issue now.

CrashM85 commented 1 year ago

Hi, Got the update for HA and it appears the wifi signal is just always "1" on a RLC-410W.

Edit, just noticed your comment about it going from 0-4 on your camera so i'm assuming it's the same with mine and i just have a crappy signal (i'm assuming the 0-4 is to populate one of those wifi bar symbols)

starkillerOG commented 1 year ago

Yes indeed, the number on my cam correspondends to the amount of wifi bars, 1 is probably a pretty bad signal