Technically - why the Reolink doorbell is the best

Having suffered for over a year with Google's garbage "Nest Doorbell Battery" which would often take up to 15 minutes after being pressed for my Nest devices to annouce a visitor (and I'm not the only one with this problem), I decided to switch to the Reolink doorbell, specifically their PoE unit.
This doorbell is amazing. It's a doorbell. It's a security camera. It integrates with Frigate and Home Assistant. It makes very few connections to the cloud; even NO connection to the cloud if you don't want it to.
Most importantly it rings as soon as you press the button.

[@jerryaycock]

thanks for the Video- I love the doorbell But I can't get it to play with Frigate - other cameras work great and old doorbell worked with rtmp -

[@kaltek797]

Make sure you turn on all the right settings! You need to go into Network-->Server Settings-->Setup and enable all the ports.

[@david85o]

Can you do 2 way audio btw the doorbell amd HA?

[@jerryaycock]

I have tried for weeks to add my Reolink doorbell to frigate- opened all ports - copied your yml - fails everytime - I tried to post my yml here but never posted- this is what i get yaml.scanner.ScannerError: mapping values are not allowed here
in "", line 32, column 15:
roles:

[@kaltek797]

That sounds like an issue with Frigate syntax. Unfortunately it doesn't mean much to me as just another random guy on the Internet.
Step #1 with any Reolink camera is to make sure you can reach the device via VLC Media Player and using the "Open Network Stream" via the same stream URL you're trying to use in Frigate. Whatever the URL is you're telling Frigate to use to communicate with the camera, you need to make sure it's right by testing it in VLC.
After that's validated, you can work on Frigate YAML syntax issues.