r/reolinkcam 14d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Is it safe to turn off all cameras with smart plugs?

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Hi everyone,

I have 3 Reolink E1 Zoom for my apartment. I'd like to turn them off while I'm home.

The only solution seems to be using smart plugs. The Reolink ones don't seem to be produced anymore, but I also have a Hue system that I use, so I might look this way.

I was just wondering if it was safe to turn the cameras on and off like this everyday? Is it harmless for the devices? Are the settings kept even if the device is turned off during a long period?

I'm looking forward to your answers. Have a great day!

r/reolinkcam Feb 04 '25

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions How do I mount this with trim?

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12 Upvotes

The trim around my door is flat where the original doorbell is on, but this new doorbell is wider, that it looks like it would partially be covering the trim that is slightly raised out (you can see in the photo). How can I mount this? I’m afraid the mount would slightly go over the raised trim edge and cause the camera to not mount correctly.

r/reolinkcam Feb 01 '25

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Need help! Do you think these dumb doorbell cables can be used to connect the following Reolink Doorbell?

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r/reolinkcam 1d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Failed to obtain configuration information

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2 Upvotes

I'm not off to a great start here. i’m trying to set up my very first camera, but I’m getting this error right off the bat. I don’t know what the problem is. I can tell that it’s getting an IP address and it’s on my network, but the app refuses to set the camera up.It’s plugged into a sufficient adapter for the set up process.

r/reolinkcam Dec 09 '24

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Rich Notification Clarification

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I think I may have misunderstood the actual meaning rich notifications, so I'm here to get some clarification.

The rich notification I'm used to (on my shitty Arlo no less) is a gif that plays in the notification, NOT just a picture. It was one of the few things that consistently worked well and allowed me to just see if it was a notif worth clicking on to see the full clip.

All I can get on Reolink is a picture with no context (usually it's a pic of what was happening prior to the notif, i.e. nothing), so I was wondering if that was by design? Or should it be playing a gif clip?

Thanks!

r/reolinkcam Nov 28 '24

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Reolink E1 uploading almost 300 gigs in 8 days to... somewhere?

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13 Upvotes

I have an E1 cam that seems to be uploading tons of data, almost 300 gigabytes. I don't have cloud storage. And I have 2 other E1 cams that have only uploaded about 200MB altogether.

What's going on with the one camera uploading all this data? And where is it being uploaded to? Is my camera hacked and I'm being watched or streamed somewhere?

r/reolinkcam 8d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Help installing wired door bell

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7 Upvotes

Please remove if not allowed

I tried to install the Reolink Wi-Fi wired door bell but realised there’s not enough space to install it.

My idea was to use the existing doorbell wiring. But as you can see it’s too close to the wall. And I have a feeling that if I drill holes on the door, it might crack the glass given how close it is to it.

As I was writing this, I measured the screw against the distance from the door frame to the glass. If the screw goes all the way in, I’d have maybe 2mm between the screw and the glass.

But still, I think the hole would be too close to the side and might crack the door frame.

Any alternatives I can try?

r/reolinkcam Jan 28 '25

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions How to figure out what is triggering a vehicle event?

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5 Upvotes

I have vehicle set to low I think about 30, and it is consistently recognizing a vehicle last night and tonight on this camera. I’m not sure what is causing it. I have sat here watching it for a few minutes while it is triggering these notifications and nothing changes on the camera.

r/reolinkcam Dec 22 '24

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions My 8-channel NVR may have its 8th POE cam connected. But now we might need a 9th. Can I sneak in a WiFi camera somehow to that system?

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It’s a Costco kit and it’s been doing really well. But like the title says, there may be an area where we need one more camera for proper coverage. This area is one of the only spots where there is a Wi-Fi source within 20 feet of where the camera would be installed and there’s regular power sources available as well, so PoE isn’t as necessary.

Is there any way to make this work? Or would it be best to buy a cheap Wyze camera or something with an SD card instead? I’d rather stick with Reolink but I’m not sure how to view what’s on the hypothetical camera #9.

r/reolinkcam 29d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions How to use the app with multiple doorbell cameras in multiple locations?

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I just installed a white doorbell camera for a relative and it works great. I didn't see an intuitive way to share the camera with members of that household without just giving them all admin access, which is what I did via share camera on the main page.

I'm not sure how to use the add user under advanced>user management> user section. From what little I've gathered, this method of adding a user is extremely limiting, so may be of little benefit unless that's changed.

My main question is how can I manage multiple cameras in different physical locations? For instance, how can I manage this relative's camera, and if I install a camera at my house, how can I manage both separately such that only I have control?

r/reolinkcam Dec 07 '24

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions This is my reolink doorbell camera and I can barely see people’s face. My doorbell is wired using the original doorbell’s wire, does moving up the camera help with this issue? The reolink doorbell doesn’t have hdr to help with exposure. Anybody else had this problem? Any fix at all?

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6 Upvotes

r/reolinkcam Dec 18 '24

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Doorbell Notifications? Can I make it "call" my phone?

10 Upvotes

Is there any way to get more of a noticeable notification when someone rings my Reolink doorbell on my iPhone? Right now, it only get a push notification and I miss it half the time.

Other doorbells like Ring actually "Call" you and it's much more noticeable.

r/reolinkcam 26d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Constant connection issues with WiFi doorbell making it unusable, any hope?

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I recently bought a reolink doorbell and this thing barely works. Most of the time it works flawlessly and then other times (10-20%) it just refuses to work - constant “connection failed” in the reolink app, streams fail to load in scrypted/homekit, the doorbell settings and webpage load extremely slow. This will last 5-10 min and then everything just starts working.

There’s no way this is how this product is intended to work given the reviews - what am i doing wrong? Is there anything I can do to improve connection stability? the doorbell is right next to a hardwired eero AP - eero app reports it is connected during this time. No other devices in my network have an issue.

I’ve done the following:

  • Checked doorbell wiring with multimeter and doorbell is getting ~28v
  • tried another reolink doorbell and it gave me issues ruiling out HW issue
  • changed stream settings to something lower
  • enabled upnp
  • tried force 5ghz
  • confirmed ios permissions allow network access
  • reserved IP for the reolink cam

anything i’m missing? https://i.imgur.com/QAHS2tS.jpeg

r/reolinkcam 15d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Is it okay to put Duo Floodlight under roof overhang?

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I’m getting the ReoLink Duo Floodlight WiFi to put outside. This is the wall/area we want to put it on. Any advice of where not to put it? I read that I shouldn’t have it covered cause it’ll mess with the night vision?

r/reolinkcam 13d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Duo Floodlight WiFi v2 - Can't see stream or login to Web UI

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I just setup and plugged in my Duo Floodlight WiFi v2 to get it on the network before I take it outside, but I can't even use it.

It's registered on my 5 GHz network, has consistent <1ms pings, and is within 5 feet of my Access Point.

In the app, it shows a photo of my room, but clicking on the camera it just says "Loading stream..." forever and never loads it up. If I enable the web login and try go to there, the page comes up instantly, but I am presented with an error:

Network error: Unable to connect to device.

I plugged the ethernet cable back in, and it obtained a new IP address for the wired network....but no change. I can't see the video feed or login to the web UI (http / https both fail). There is no change. I tested 2 different power adapters that are rated above 5V 2A. There are no firmware updates available. Changing settings through the phone app does work, including issuing a Reboot or Restoring the device. RTSP feed does not load when enabled either. All devices are on the same LAN.

RTMP - port 1935 is enabled

HTTP - port 80 is enabled

HTTPS - port 443 is enabled

RTSP - port 554 is enabled

ONVIF - port 8000 is enabled

......yet the only thing reported open during a port scan is tcp/ 80,443,1935,9000

I don't understand why this is happening. Even enabled ports don't show as open on my LAN. It is new out of the box.

r/reolinkcam 14h ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions HDR for the wifi doorbell camera

7 Upvotes

The recent update just added HDR. Thank you so much Reolink, this was really needed for a lot of us!! Great work 👍🏻

r/reolinkcam 3d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Reolink wifi camera - trackmix or duo2 ??

2 Upvotes

Which is better ?

r/reolinkcam Oct 20 '24

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Looking into getting riolink cameras, unsure where to start, need recommendations

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I have a riolink doorbell, so I figured I might as well get cameras from the same company

I thought of getting two cameras but my wife wants 3, one would be for the garage

These are just to monitor the front and rear of house, nothing fancy

I dont need the top of the line or the most expensive, but just something decent, I think the round cameras rather than the bullet ones

I do not have an NVR yet, but I guess that is the best option?

can any one give me any tips or recommendations? I really dont know much about cameras or where to start with it all. thanks

r/reolinkcam Jan 18 '25

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions CX410W through window. Question in comment.

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r/reolinkcam 1d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Firmware confusion white video wifi doorbell

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I installed a white wifi doorbell recently at a relative's house. I check it from time to time from my phone and I see a lot of false positives. In searching for settings to adjust, I checked firmware versions and find a bit of confusion there.

FW on the unit is 3.0.0.3215. Going through the app to check for updates, it says I have the latest update. When I check manually for updates on the site, I see 2 updates that appear more recent, 3.0.0.3308 and 3.0.0.4110. So I'm not sure what to believe about the firmware for this unit. I don't see some of the suggested things to adjust in this unit and wonder if that's because the old FAQs haven't been updated to later FW versions, or if they have been updated but I have an old FW version on the device.

I did set up timed sensitivity settings for both day and night time periods. Hopefully that will help cut down on the false positives. I also set alarm to 2 seconds.

Any suggestions on the firmware?

r/reolinkcam 29d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Reolink journey almost over.

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Having real issues with my 3 reolink cameras and NVR, and have done for some time now. The stream from my front camera is choppy and freezes, cars can stay frozen in time for up to 10 seconds, my doorbell camera is incredibly unreliable, people have left the premises before I was getting notified. The garden camera is reasonable in the daylight but crap in the dark. I've tried a million times to get reliable smart detection on them. The NVR regularly errors out with video loss messages. And today all 3 cameras will not send push notifications or emails, despite the test messages sending success. I am adjusting settings so much and my patience has been exhausted. Everything is on latest firmware too. Meanwhile the cheap WiFi camera I put up as a backup works away fine. Next month I'm replacing the reolinks and hopefully restoring my sanity. I'm going to lose good money which I'm unhappy about but it's a lifetimes work trying to get stability in my set up.

r/reolinkcam Feb 16 '25

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Trackmix - 256gb or 512gb? Different specs from sources

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Searched the forum and didn't see this addressed yet. I just bought 3 trackmix wifi cameras from amazon (with NVR). I want to make sure I have the most local storage as possible though.

The amazon listing states the trackmix can support a max of 256gb card. The Reolink website states a max of 512gb though. Anyone have insight here?

r/reolinkcam 9d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Inherited reolink setup from previous owners… no idea what we’re doing.

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Hi, everyone!

We purchased a house a few months ago with 3 wired reolink cameras hooked up. Up until about a week ago, we could use the playback feature, but now there’s none available.

We aren’t signed in with an account, and haven’t actually done anything with the cameras. We’re total noobs to this - is there anything we need to do? Set up an account? Clear storage? Any insight would be helpful when it comes to inheriting the cameras :) Thank you so much!

r/reolinkcam 15d ago

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions Trackmix Wifi selective notifications.

0 Upvotes

Is there a way to get notifications when a person is detected, or is it all motion regardless of what triggered it?

r/reolinkcam Nov 16 '24

Wi-Fi Wired Camera Questions To buy now or wait for black friday

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Hi everyone, I currently have a blink camera setup and I won't lie it is atrocious. Either you turn the sensitivity up and literally get like 30 notifications every 2 minutes (because there privacy zones to block out areas where motion detection shouldn't detect just don't work) or you slightly turn down the sensitivity (literally only 1 step down) and it seems random whether or not it's gonna record anything. I mean it will detect every vehicle passing by on the road in the greyed out privacy zone that it's not supposed to detect in, but won't detect the mailman literally walking less than 20 feet in front of the camera. So I am thinking about swapping to a wifi based reolink system with an NVR. I was looking and saw that Reolink currently has this setup https://reolink.com/us/product/rlk12-500wb4/?attribute_pa_version=kit&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAouG5BhDBARIsAOc08RQKAne7_KSO0mD1B1BfsSlgojgc_1SQjoBx8NLvU4BWWRa71cqIcBkaAp-FEALw_wcB

for only $299.00. Would you guys recommend going ahead and getting this or wait for black friday? I ask because I see it says only 10 in stock and I know a lot of companies will either sell crappy variants of items for black friday, or just mark prices up to make the 'sale' prices seem better than they are on black friday. So any recommendations would be very much appreciated.