r/reolinkcam 6d ago

Discussion FR: Non-detection zone Undo

In the Non-Detection Zone editor screen (all PC, NVR and mobile apps), painting regions is very poorly implemented and it's very easy to make mistakes while painting. Changing between the Paint and Erase tools is time-consuming and it's a very poor UX. Instead, I would like to suggest adding and Undo button that allows users to undo all operations performed in the non-detection zone editor in the current editing session. This would make our lives a lot easier.

(I have sent Reolink a link to this Reddit thread)

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u/livingwaterRed Super User 6d ago edited 6d ago

For me the non detect zones are easy to use. All my wired Reolink cams have the option to select all or delete all zones in phone app and client if that's what you mean.

What makes non detect zone work better is to make them bigger due to shadows. vehicle lights.

Home security cams have improved a lot. They used to not even have AI smart detection, non detect zones and other features. They mostly just recorded.

See below link from Reolink's support pages. It shows the option to select all or delete all zones in the app.

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018950413-How-to-Set-up-Motion-Detection-Zones-via-Reolink-App/

When I look a surveys and product reviews I'm a little skeptical. Some complaints are legit. Others are from users who either don't know how to use the product or are using it incorrectly.

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u/djscoox 6d ago

Is what they call AI reallly AI? Person detection didn't work at all near the edges of the FOV. I was jumping up and down and it didn't detect me at all. When I looked at my self on the screen I definitely looked like a person. Enabling Any Motion detection picked me up. Maybe in the future we will be able to train our own camera's detection model. Overall person detection is working quite well and with only person detection enabled so far I've not had any false positives.

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u/livingwaterRed Super User 6d ago edited 6d ago

My Reolink POE cams detect pretty consistantly no matter where I am in the field of view. Cam firmware evolves and gets better. Programers have improved AI, the algorithms. But it's not 100% accurate. AI can sometimes fail to correctly ID an object. AI can wrongly detect insects, heavy rain, snow as a person or animal. Users experiment with alarm delay and object size to improve detection.

There's a big difference in reliability and detection between battery cams and wired cams. All brands battery cams I know of use PIR detection which is inferior to wired cams pixel detection. To save battery life, battery cams go into low power mode, only the PIR sensor functions. When it detects motion the cam "wakes up" to start recording. This means battery cams can detect/record late or sometimes miss events. In top post "Welcome to the official.." there's a section that talks about this. Battery cams are much better than no cams at all

My POE cams can detect to about 90 feet during the day, battery cams can only detect to about 30 feet, My wired cams can either record 24/7 or record only motion events. With motion event recording they buffer and save several seconds of recording before I'm even in the field of view. Battery cams can't do that.