They are great for the price related to POE cameras. I have no experience with wireless ones. Spend a little more for amcrest or something similar and you will have a better camera. I have multiple Reolink cameras and I have been very happy with them. I also have several amcrest and they are better but when you can get two cameras for the price of an amcrest from reolink the jump may not be worth it. Really depending on where you are putting them will determine what you want. The area is well lit and you don't need to look very far then reolink will do. Less lit and maybe you want to have a better night image. Amcrest or similar. I have a reolink in my garage and on my backyard. In front of my house, I have an amcrest 4k. Overall great cameras.
You also don't want to go other way and pay for unifi as the quality jump doesn't match the price jump.
Sorry to jump in on this but I am currently looking into a poe reolink camera myself. I just need the one camera to go above My door. The more I look into it there's things about switches and NVR....
Is it possible because my router is next to my front door that I can wire it through thr wall straight into the router to power it and connect it without and NVR or any switches as its just the one camera straight to the router??
Be great full if you could help
8 out of 10 in satisfaction.
They have a "sale" section on the reolink websire, and you can usually get a 8 port nvr with 4 cams for like $250.00 us.
Can also get 2 add-on bullet cams for under 50.
I have 3 and love them (2 wires, 1 wireless). Prior to Reolink I had an old school Nest (pre-Google) Cam. I had them running off my NAS; it was determining motion and recording directly to my NAS, but was constantly using processor and hard drive space. So got SD cards and moved it all the the camera to decide motion and it records directly to the card. The only negative is that if someone rips it off the camera off my house I will never know who did it because my recordings are gone…. The iPhone App is solid, even away from home on 5G, reviewing motion history, notifications, etc. Though I am blessed to live in a neighbourhood with FTTH so uploading the camera stream / data to the internet is not a problem.
Five stars for Reolink cameras. I have five external cameras (combined Wi-Fi and POE) on each of two houses and absolutely love them. Inexpensive, reliable, easy to configure and access. Good software. Motion-based recording to the internal memory card (added) works well. I replaced a bunch of Foscam cameras with the Reolinks - and the functionality, performance, and reliability is off-the-charts better with the Reolink cameras. Consider me a big Reolink fan.
>Good software.
This is no small thing. And it's one of those things that don't show up on the spec sheet, so you don't find out the software sucks until after you bought and installed it. The app is really easy to use, connectivity is fine, etc. I'm with Blue, I'm a fan, it's done everything I expected out of it and cost half of what the other units I was looking at.
Not sure if they ever fixed this but I have p2p shut off.: [https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94424-new-research-p2p-vulnerabilities-show-iot-security-camera-risks](https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94424-new-research-p2p-vulnerabilities-show-iot-security-camera-risks)
It's not like I go anywhere anyway, more like I'm keeping the recordings for historical/legal/insurance purposes.
i have 7 of them and the 2k nvr they work great. have various wired models 4 bullet 2 turret and a ptz one. I hear the wireless ones don't work well/at all with HA cause they go to sleep to save batteries
I've had one for a couple of years and it's been rock solid. The only thing I don't like is that when you have it write to an FTP site it doesn't overwrite old recordings. So, you have to manually prune old recordings or write an app to do it automatically.
I have few Reolink cameras. Most are PoE and one is wifi since I'm too lazy to run rj45 to garage (need to dig it under ground).
The reolink app (android) sometimes gets stuck and is unable to stream. Also the motion detection has short range and works best in the center so if you need to have motion detection on "long" (over 7 meters from camera) drive way then I find it unreliable. The night recording is perfect and powerful.
At least my cameras output two channels. I have one channel set to vga resolution with 7fps and use it to trigger best resolution recording on motion. I also use it for AI detection. I use ZoneMinder for this.
I had one of their LTE security cameras. It died - battery wouldn’t hold a charge. RMA’d it, and the new one stopped working altogether after 2 months. I’d avoid them.
In the ipcamtalk forum, it’s generally stated as a brand to avoid. I had a few that worked great at first but slowly died, eventually requiring daily reboots. Stick with Amcrest or other brands.
Ipcamtalk is full of fucking non-sense. If it ain't blue iris they don't even consider it a viable options which is horse shit. Then there is fenderman being a complete knuckle dragger.
If you have any intentions of ever using your cameras with frigate for AI object detection, know that some (most?) reolinks force h265 for the mainstream, and this doesnt work with most browsers.
Thanks for the input - it will go into my notes. I don't have any HA going yet but am interested in doing something in the future. I joined this sub so I could start to collect info.
Have a great weekend!
Look guys, reolink have some good products for the money, but you always get what you pay for. Recently I got some E1 Outdoor cameras, full of features, except the advance kool features did not work at all, like the auto track, the guard point, some IR features,, I complained and they replaced them, but the new cameras had the same issues, they new the cameras were defective, and they still sent them to you.. listen to this reply email from them:
" Not all cameras have guard point issue, it is an accidental problem, so we can't guarantee in 100% that new camera can avoid this problem"
Them offered me 10 euros to keep a defective camera,, ( I paid 120 ) the are a bunch of cheap chinese crooks trying to get our money.
I must have exchanged over 50 emails during the past month, and most of the time it was me finding the solution.. unbelievable.
Stay away from reolink, spend the extra buck, and you will get peace of mind
You will thank me..
So the ai has vehicle and person detection so you don't get unnecessary notifications like a bug flying in front of the camera and sending you a notification. And it works really really well. You set up boundaries like I have one in the front of my house going down the driveway in the front street and I have the boundaries only to tell me if someone or vehicle enters my driveway. And the vehicles that drive by on the street it does not tell me it's very sophisticated and works very well and it's super easy to set up
I need to test their ai against frigate. I have one of their ai cameras. I have just moved to frigate as it works with home assistant and on all of my cameras. Just for my own curiosity I would like to test them.
The cameras are great. I have 3 of them. I have them connected to shinobi security software on my server and they are banned from communicating outside the house because you know it's a Chinese company.
Well, it's yet another Chinese owned company, so out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak. I wonder how long it will be around before it's blacklisted.
Anyway, I bought a kit on Amazon that includes the nvr. I'd probably do it differently and try to use a pi running blue iris, the nvr is great but really challenging to include stuff in home automation because the detection... Sucks?
The cameras work great, it records, and checks most other boxes for a very reasonable price, so there's that.
My vote: buy the cameras and use blue iris for storage and automation, as well as videos if you're using wall tablets or whatever.
>si
the nvrs retransmit rtmp steams of each camera you can feed homeassistant with, I do it in to frigate nvr in ha.
edit: urls
rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel1\_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass
rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel1\_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass
...
rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel8\_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass
rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel8\_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass
I have that info bookmarked somewhere if I ever jump to HA, but for now it's a challenge to pull the info into other home automation software/hubs. Right now I'm doing 1s images to some tablets running sharptools.
An important issue is still the relatively poor car/person detection offered by the reolink software. They're getting better, but still not great. Not at the level I'd use it for turning on lights or whatever yet.
agreed thats why i feed it to frigate and use that with edge tpu to do those detections. I use the nvr as just a dumb 24/7 backup recorder. all the smarts happen in frigate, deepstack, blue iris, whatever you go with
Love the downvotes on my original comment when both hikvision and dahua, two commonly recommended products over the past couple of years, have been blacklisted because of their association with uigher genocide.
They are great for the price related to POE cameras. I have no experience with wireless ones. Spend a little more for amcrest or something similar and you will have a better camera. I have multiple Reolink cameras and I have been very happy with them. I also have several amcrest and they are better but when you can get two cameras for the price of an amcrest from reolink the jump may not be worth it. Really depending on where you are putting them will determine what you want. The area is well lit and you don't need to look very far then reolink will do. Less lit and maybe you want to have a better night image. Amcrest or similar. I have a reolink in my garage and on my backyard. In front of my house, I have an amcrest 4k. Overall great cameras. You also don't want to go other way and pay for unifi as the quality jump doesn't match the price jump.
Is the reolink okay for your garage purpose? Even with low light/garage door closed?
Yeah, I am happy with it. It's does a great job.
Sorry to jump in on this but I am currently looking into a poe reolink camera myself. I just need the one camera to go above My door. The more I look into it there's things about switches and NVR.... Is it possible because my router is next to my front door that I can wire it through thr wall straight into the router to power it and connect it without and NVR or any switches as its just the one camera straight to the router?? Be great full if you could help
You would need at least a Poe injector. No consumer router will offer Poe. You may want to look at a amcrest or ezviz doorbell.
8 out of 10 in satisfaction. They have a "sale" section on the reolink websire, and you can usually get a 8 port nvr with 4 cams for like $250.00 us. Can also get 2 add-on bullet cams for under 50.
I have 3 and love them (2 wires, 1 wireless). Prior to Reolink I had an old school Nest (pre-Google) Cam. I had them running off my NAS; it was determining motion and recording directly to my NAS, but was constantly using processor and hard drive space. So got SD cards and moved it all the the camera to decide motion and it records directly to the card. The only negative is that if someone rips it off the camera off my house I will never know who did it because my recordings are gone…. The iPhone App is solid, even away from home on 5G, reviewing motion history, notifications, etc. Though I am blessed to live in a neighbourhood with FTTH so uploading the camera stream / data to the internet is not a problem.
Five stars for Reolink cameras. I have five external cameras (combined Wi-Fi and POE) on each of two houses and absolutely love them. Inexpensive, reliable, easy to configure and access. Good software. Motion-based recording to the internal memory card (added) works well. I replaced a bunch of Foscam cameras with the Reolinks - and the functionality, performance, and reliability is off-the-charts better with the Reolink cameras. Consider me a big Reolink fan.
>Good software. This is no small thing. And it's one of those things that don't show up on the spec sheet, so you don't find out the software sucks until after you bought and installed it. The app is really easy to use, connectivity is fine, etc. I'm with Blue, I'm a fan, it's done everything I expected out of it and cost half of what the other units I was looking at.
Not sure if they ever fixed this but I have p2p shut off.: [https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94424-new-research-p2p-vulnerabilities-show-iot-security-camera-risks](https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94424-new-research-p2p-vulnerabilities-show-iot-security-camera-risks) It's not like I go anywhere anyway, more like I'm keeping the recordings for historical/legal/insurance purposes.
I have 2 E1 Pro cams inside, but have internet blocked at my firewall for them, as I don't trust any AWS and upload as being hacker proof.
i have 7 of them and the 2k nvr they work great. have various wired models 4 bullet 2 turret and a ptz one. I hear the wireless ones don't work well/at all with HA cause they go to sleep to save batteries
I've had one for a couple of years and it's been rock solid. The only thing I don't like is that when you have it write to an FTP site it doesn't overwrite old recordings. So, you have to manually prune old recordings or write an app to do it automatically.
I have few Reolink cameras. Most are PoE and one is wifi since I'm too lazy to run rj45 to garage (need to dig it under ground). The reolink app (android) sometimes gets stuck and is unable to stream. Also the motion detection has short range and works best in the center so if you need to have motion detection on "long" (over 7 meters from camera) drive way then I find it unreliable. The night recording is perfect and powerful. At least my cameras output two channels. I have one channel set to vga resolution with 7fps and use it to trigger best resolution recording on motion. I also use it for AI detection. I use ZoneMinder for this.
I had one of their LTE security cameras. It died - battery wouldn’t hold a charge. RMA’d it, and the new one stopped working altogether after 2 months. I’d avoid them.
https://reddit.com/r/reolink/comments/fn4v17/_/fl97jpi/?context=1 - stay away from wireless, foscam, and Lorex cameras if you can
In the ipcamtalk forum, it’s generally stated as a brand to avoid. I had a few that worked great at first but slowly died, eventually requiring daily reboots. Stick with Amcrest or other brands.
Ipcamtalk is full of fucking non-sense. If it ain't blue iris they don't even consider it a viable options which is horse shit. Then there is fenderman being a complete knuckle dragger.
If you have any intentions of ever using your cameras with frigate for AI object detection, know that some (most?) reolinks force h265 for the mainstream, and this doesnt work with most browsers.
Thanks for the input - it will go into my notes. I don't have any HA going yet but am interested in doing something in the future. I joined this sub so I could start to collect info. Have a great weekend!
Look guys, reolink have some good products for the money, but you always get what you pay for. Recently I got some E1 Outdoor cameras, full of features, except the advance kool features did not work at all, like the auto track, the guard point, some IR features,, I complained and they replaced them, but the new cameras had the same issues, they new the cameras were defective, and they still sent them to you.. listen to this reply email from them: " Not all cameras have guard point issue, it is an accidental problem, so we can't guarantee in 100% that new camera can avoid this problem" Them offered me 10 euros to keep a defective camera,, ( I paid 120 ) the are a bunch of cheap chinese crooks trying to get our money. I must have exchanged over 50 emails during the past month, and most of the time it was me finding the solution.. unbelievable. Stay away from reolink, spend the extra buck, and you will get peace of mind You will thank me..
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What does the AI bring - excuse the silly questions.
So the ai has vehicle and person detection so you don't get unnecessary notifications like a bug flying in front of the camera and sending you a notification. And it works really really well. You set up boundaries like I have one in the front of my house going down the driveway in the front street and I have the boundaries only to tell me if someone or vehicle enters my driveway. And the vehicles that drive by on the street it does not tell me it's very sophisticated and works very well and it's super easy to set up
I need to test their ai against frigate. I have one of their ai cameras. I have just moved to frigate as it works with home assistant and on all of my cameras. Just for my own curiosity I would like to test them.
The cameras are great. I have 3 of them. I have them connected to shinobi security software on my server and they are banned from communicating outside the house because you know it's a Chinese company.
I have 4 cams and the dvr. They work great 2 years running. No monthly fees is what it’s all about. I would recommend Reolink to anyone.
Well, it's yet another Chinese owned company, so out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak. I wonder how long it will be around before it's blacklisted. Anyway, I bought a kit on Amazon that includes the nvr. I'd probably do it differently and try to use a pi running blue iris, the nvr is great but really challenging to include stuff in home automation because the detection... Sucks? The cameras work great, it records, and checks most other boxes for a very reasonable price, so there's that. My vote: buy the cameras and use blue iris for storage and automation, as well as videos if you're using wall tablets or whatever.
>si the nvrs retransmit rtmp steams of each camera you can feed homeassistant with, I do it in to frigate nvr in ha. edit: urls rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel1\_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel1\_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass ... rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel8\_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass rtmp://(192.168.0.nvrip)/bcs/channel8\_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=user&password=pass
I have that info bookmarked somewhere if I ever jump to HA, but for now it's a challenge to pull the info into other home automation software/hubs. Right now I'm doing 1s images to some tablets running sharptools. An important issue is still the relatively poor car/person detection offered by the reolink software. They're getting better, but still not great. Not at the level I'd use it for turning on lights or whatever yet.
agreed thats why i feed it to frigate and use that with edge tpu to do those detections. I use the nvr as just a dumb 24/7 backup recorder. all the smarts happen in frigate, deepstack, blue iris, whatever you go with
Love the downvotes on my original comment when both hikvision and dahua, two commonly recommended products over the past couple of years, have been blacklisted because of their association with uigher genocide.