Here's a simple container/wrapper that may help with battery-life for some cameras and use cases.

[EricLauber]

I've been testing this at home for a few weeks and it seems to be working in my specific use case. I just posted a repo for neolink-interval. It uses quantumentangledandy/neolink:v0.6.2 as its base and runs a shell script to run neolink for 20 seconds, and then stop it for a specified interval of time.

For most cameras, this probably isn't very useful. But if you have a Reolink Battery Doorbell and are seeking a basic timelapse, this works well. I'm basically getting 5-minute resolution out of this and am not experiencing any battery drain.

I think the longer term thing to do is to submit some fixes or adjustments to neolink itself so that the interval functionality works more effectively - actually disconnect from the camera so it can take that time to recharge. That would also enable being able to connect on-demand and to get the RTSP stream (which in my configuration doesn't really work). But I'm not strong in Rust today, so this shell script as a container gets me by. Hopefully it helps some others, too.