Reolink CCTV: Good? Bad? Indifferent?

[Jonny_]

As per the title really, once Prime Day rolls around I'm considering updating my home CCTV system (*).

Reolink stuff on Amazon looks reasonable value, can pick up an 8 channel PoE NVR with 4 fixed cameras and then add an extra PTZ camera for around £450 all in after the usual mess of "vouchers", hopefully this will be discounted a bit further on Prime Day in which case I might even add a second PTZ.

Anyone have any experience of these Reolink systems, and are you happy with picture quality, ease of use, motion detection, general reliability, remote access app etc?

Don't want to spend more than £500 all in, and I want to have at least 5 cameras (currently have 4, with one notable blind spot) with PTZ on at least one camera.

Current system is a cheap Sannce PoE setup, 4 fixed cameras and a basic NVR. It works well enough for a 4 year old £200 system, but the motion detection is st and the remote access app is poor as well. I have PoE CAT5 camera cabling for this system which I'll reuse for the new setup (hence the new one needs to be PoE), and have LAN cabling to the NVR as well - don't want to rely on WiFi.

Cheers.

(*) Not least because some "undesirables" have recently moved in locally and are constantly cropping up on the local FB page trying car/house/garage door handles in the early hours of the morning, local police being completely fking useless of course...

[Magnum 475]

Had a couple of their cameras but using Synology to record.

Perfectly fine for what they cost, although the IR for night mode was quite weak.

Lasted 5 years, and were still working fine when I replaced them with something more sophisticated & higher res.

[arfur]

I use Reolink.

I have 5 solar powered wifi bullet cams on the outside of the house with the panels obscured from view

They have never failed nor run out of power in the 5 years they have been up. Alerts etc and picture quality in day and night is perfectly good

I also have 5 "360" mains powered wifi cams that are dotted around the house when we are away. Again all good etc

I dont record video, just have them take snapshots and email them to me so cannot comment on recording

hth

Arf

[somouk]

I have the reolink doorbell and 2 cameras, 1 POE and 1 wifi.

Been excellent and leagues ahead of the Ring stuff it replaced. Need to swap one to be a wider angle than it is but that's my fault for not checking it first!

[Griffith4ever]

Reolink is my go-to for cameras.

Good app, good support, good hardware, Chinese prices. I even have one on a very, very high pole in a field, beamign back live video in all weather. Been up there for about 7 years.

Very few cams and NVRs play nice through the internet with zero subscriptions. Reolink is consistently good.

[Brother D]

I tried them after review from this guy



They are ok, but can be a little glitchy with industry standard nvrs like hikvision and dahua.

Looks good value for money thou!

[FunkyGibbon]

I have 3 of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reolink-Rechargeable-Secu...

and one of these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reolink-Security-Spotligh...

all integrated into the ReoLink app and there is a desktop app, so I have an old laptop running as a monitor.

Very happy with reolink.

[Cupramax]

And another, 3 x RLC-811A 4K POE colour nightview cams and an NVR as a result of some local scrotes catapulting stones at my front bay windows. No issues whatsoever, going to add their doorbell cam when i get a minutes spare.

[glow worm]

I've 5 Reolink Cameras and I think they're great for what they cost . I capture recordings on an old Windows 10 Desktop , access them from my phone, laptops,Tablets and interface through TinyWeb cam to ACTIONTILES for my Smarthome display .

[Jonny_]

Cheers all. I ordered the Reolink setup the other day (although ended up having a bit of "scope creep" and ordering the super duper PTZ camera rather than the cheap one...), just need them to try and deliver it when I'm actually at home.

[durbster]

I've got 2 cameras and the Reolink doorbell hooked up to an NVR and it all works great. The first camera has been running for a good 3 years now I think and I've had zero issues with it.

Before that I had another Reolink camera which started getting misting inside the lens. It was still under warranty and they were really good to deal with. I sent them photos of the problem and they immediately sent me a replacement camera (newer model), no fuss at all.

The hardware is excellent but not being dependent on a cloud subscription is a massive bonus. This is particularly useful for the doorbell as it means I'm not having everyone who comes and goes at my house being logged by some tech giant in California.

The only problem I have with them is the damn spider webs, but I don't think I can blame Reolink for that

[dmsims]

Much better than the utter st that is Ring

I have Dahua and Hikvision but needed one for the Pond urgently.

It's good for the price point but wouldn't want to rely on it for identification at night