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@ken_197973053927635 my apologies. With my intent to be as comprehensive as possible, have a tendency to give more information than is often times needed. In your case, yes, two Nanostations would assume utility power at your camera side. I assumed no wired Ethernet but was not sure if there was power available so I included the extra information.

As an access point,150ft clear LoS with the Nanostation should produce good results. Forgive me as I do not know your experience with Ubiquiti products, here is a reasonably concise tutorial on setting up the Nanostation as an access point... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnl-tX7IUxE

A very important detail is your backhaul type. Wired or wireless? In other words, is your Nanostation wired directly to your router or is the backhaul wireless? If the backhaul is wireless, perhaps the Nanostation has a weak signal back to the router. If the RE305 is between them such as this ROUTER <--> RE305 <--> NANOSTATION, that's a lot of WiFi backhaul going on and your speed (not signal) is going to get cut in half at each hop. Now if any of those hops has a weak signal, it makes the speed decrease even worse. Unless absolutely unavoidable, all access points should be wired backhaul for best reliability/performance.

Lastly, I returned my Argus PT because it does not have continuous recording. In other words, the camera portion shut off to save power. Only the motion sensor stays active to wake the camera up when triggered. I do not know what the time out period is, but perhaps that is what you are experiencing? Just a thought.

When you say it doesn't do anything for transferring the signal, do you mean that it does not improve the signal or there is no connection at all?

Are you using the Nanostation on the local side as an access point or on the camera side as a bridge? As an access point, you'll want it mounted outdoors with a clear line of sight to the camera. 250ft is pushing the limits of WiFi in the most ideal conditions. On the camera side as a bridge point, your going to need a Nanostation on both sides for a point-to-point bridge. The bridge is going to give you the range and performance you need. I have deployed Nanostation bridges at ranges up to 3 miles with connections speeds over 600Mbps in ideal conditions. They are capable of much more however you have to take into consideration environmental factors. At 250 feet, a pair of Nanostations as a point-to-point bridge should perform flawlessly for you.

Any plans for portrait mode? I have a couple of narrow views that are begging for a portrait mode. Even if it is limited to dome cameras (like the RLC-843A) that are wall mounted, that would be a great feature. So far I have one wall mounted and succumb to rotating my head to view.

Looks to be an unsupported configuration at the moment...

https://www.reddit.com/r/reolinkcam/comments/1gemayq/doorbell_chime_v2_and_home_hub_incompatibility/

I can tell you that the wired WiFi doorbell does with with both (that's what I have). I can only assume that's it's a battery capacity issue... the more lines of code in the firmware means more power for processing. Having to send two alert signals to two different devices also means more power.

@joseph_1979 I already tried this with the 843. I plugged it directly into VLAN1 which is where everything is at. Same result when I unplug the router... video stream cuts out.

New owner here. Picked up a Home Hub Pro, WiFi doorbell and a handful of PoE cameras. Cameras are not here yet so I can not yet determine if my issue is with the doorbell only or if it is more widespread.

EDIT #1: I do have a RLC-843WA which I am planning to return so I did not bother opening it until this evening. I can confirm that the issue below also plagues this camera, both WiFi and wired connectivity.

Network topology:

• Dell Gigabit L2 switch in the basement servicing the 1st floor and an industrial L2 switch in my garage attic for the 2nd floor. Switches are linked via a 2 member Gigabit LAG.
• Two VLANS--VLAN1 for general use, VLAN25 for Reolink wired LAN.
• Xfinity XB8 modem in bridge mode with 1.2Gbps service (920Mbps realized) connected to Alien router.
• AmpliFi Alien router (1st floor) connected to Dell switch with wired backhaul Alien mesh point (2nd floor via industrial switch)
• Home Hub Pro WAN port on VLAN1 via industrial switch, LAN port on VLAN25 via industrial switch (no cameras yet however).
• Various Google Home and Chromecast devices via wired and WiFi connections on VLAN1.

Problem:

• Live video on my iPhone via the Reolink app is normal--maybe 1/2 second to 1 second latency. The problem is when we stream the doorbell to a Google display or Chromecast connected TV. There is 7-9 seconds of video latency with frequent buffering. The latency is present through all 10 minutes (or whatever the duration is) of the max stream duration. It is absolutely useless.

Troubleshooting:

• Issue occurs regardless of Home Hub Pro connection point (Dell or industrial switch)
• Issue occurs regardless of use of Home Hub Pro or not (have reset doorbell and setup both ways).
• Issue occurs even with 100% doorbell WiFi signal strength.
• Issue occurs with both wired and wireless Google devices.
• Have tried various frame rates in the camera settings (unsure which video stream is used for casting so I tested them all).

I have Googled for days and can not find anything helpful. Anyone?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT #2: So I'm pretty sure I know what is causing it. I incorrectly assumed that the Home Hub Pro would stream cameras directly to Google devices the same way it will directly stream to the Reolink app if on the same network. While streaming to a Chromecast TV I unplugged my router and BAM!... feed went out. That tells me that the video is streaming to a server somewhere and then streaming back to my TV. Why not just bake that into the HHP firmware and let it all be local? UGH.