Reolink CLI

01 · What it does

• Discover cameras on the LAN, ping, log in and read model, firmware and capabilities
• Pan, tilt and zoom, and go to, set or delete PTZ presets
• Read and set IR, spotlight and status LED, volume, mute and the siren
• Take a JPEG snapshot or save a short preview clip
• Read and change motion and AI detection, encoder and OSD settings, and query events, storage and recordings

02 · Install

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reolink/reolink-cli/main/install.sh | sh
$ reolink-cli config init
$ reolink-cli device add porch --host 192.0.2.10:9000 --user admin --password-stdin
$ reolink-cli gateway start --addr 127.0.0.1:9000

1. Published by Reolink. The CLI binaries are under a proprietary royalty-free EULA and their source is not in the repo; the skill, plugin manifests and installers are Apache 2.0
2. The gateway must be running for the MCP server to work. Replace 192.0.2.10 with your camera's LAN address; the password is read from stdin
3. Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add reolink/reolink-cli, then /plugin install reolink-cli@reolink-cli (install the CLI first)
4. Features differ by model; the README says to check reolink-cli --camera <alias> capabilities. Battery cameras paired to a Home Hub are reached through the hub
5. The README's config is the bare mcpServers block; it is wrapped in braces here

03 · Client config (from README)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reolink-cli": {
      "command": "reolink-cli",
      "args": ["mcp-server"],
      "env": { "REOLINK_GATEWAY_ADDR": "127.0.0.1:9000" }
    }
  }
}

Install steps taken from the project README (its recommended path first). Placeholders are the maintainer's. Not bench-tested by HardwareMCP yet.