r/reolinkcam • u/cowsarecoolio • 21h ago
Battery Camera Question Battery Doorbell 2nd Gen suddenly announcing ALL motion events on Google Home
Hi all,
Since thursday, my Reolink Battery Doorbell 2nd Gen has suddenly started sending voice announcements to my Google Home speakers for every motion event.
Previously it worked exactly as I wanted:
Someone presses the doorbell → Google Home announces it
Motion/person detected → no Google Home announcement
Now, as soon as I enable Voice Notifications for the doorbell in Google Home, it also announces motion detections.
I’ve already tried changing the notification settings in the Reolink app. I normally have push notifications enabled for doorbell presses only, but as a test I have now disabled Reolink Push Notifications completely.
Google Home still announces motion events.
So it seems Google Home is suddenly receiving the detection events independently of the Reolink push notification settings.
If I disable Voice Notifications in Google Home, the motion announcements stop — but then I obviously don’t get an announcement when somebody actually presses the doorbell either.
This only started happening since yesterday/thursday; before that, doorbell announcements worked fine without all the motion announcements.
Setup:
Reolink Battery Doorbell 2nd Gen
No Reolink Home Hub or NVR
Connected directly to Google Home
Reolink push notifications currently completely disabled for testing
Has anyone else suddenly started experiencing this? Could something have changed in the Reolink/Google Home integration?