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I have had good results with separate IR lights, such as Tendelux (from Amazon in the US). They tend to draw bugs away from the camera lens and I disable the camera IR LEDs. One key is to ensure that the IR light puts out the same frequency light as the Reolink cameras. (I used to know what it was, but cannot find that 3x5 card anymore. IR comes in 850 and 940)

Color night vision is independent of the IR LEDs. If there is not enough visible light for the camera, it switches to 'night mode' (no color). If you want color at night, there needs to be a source of visible light.

Also, the PIR detection range is given as 21 feet, so the ability to shine light Waaaaay out there, is not going to result in more video captures.
And for animals, detecting even a bear at 100ft. will be a tiny object in the video.

The Reolink Apple and Android apps use the Reolink "cloud" to access Live View and recordings. The key is that cameras have to be registered using the UID. I do it all the time.

I am using v8.7.2 and my cameras open for Live View or Playback in Clear. Perhaps this is a function of the specific camera model?
I have RLC-4105MP, RLC-4205MP, RLC-510WA, RLC-1212A

I am confused about this topic. My RLC cameras are independent (no NVR) and I use the Windows Client v8.7.2 to access them. (plus opening the mp4 files copied with FTP)
I just now opened all of my RLC cameras, one at a time, in both Live View and Playback and all of them came up in Clear mode.
RLC-410-5mp
RLC-420-5MP
RLC-510WA
RLC-1212A

Is the discussion about the NVR, rather than individual cameras?

A truly irritating problem that has never been addressed. The original cameras had this problem. The newest RLC-1212A camera does the same thing.

Yes, it does. Same as other RLC cameras.

Did you check this article?
https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004123353-How-to-Add-Reolink-Cameras-to-QNAP?gclid=CjwKCAjwo8-SBhAlEiwAopc9W5L2llfaZdrbEgMldxEzh87vIw7BX8M1ZnDWLSxwgJn04Q8prRw6ehoCd9MQAvD_BwE

My RLC-510WA camera has settings for brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. Open the camera Settings, select Display, then open the Advanced options.

This article discusses how to add WiFi cameras to the Reolink NVR. Having no PoE cable at all, WiFi cameras cannot possibly connect to the PoE jacks on the back of the NVR. They must connect to the customer's LAN.
https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007011053-How-to-Add-Reolink-IP-Cameras-to-Reolink-PoE-NVR

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007011053-How-to-Add-Reolink-IP-Cameras-to-Reolink-PoE-NVR

Here's a video from Reolink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWNj4S9OeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWNj4S9OeE

Easy to test. Connect a camera to that Ubiquiti PoE switch that is next to the router. If the camera can be connected to the NVR at that location, then it will work in the garage.
(I looked through all 206 articles in the FAQ and did not see a reference to connecting other network cameras to the NVR - not through the NVR PoE ports.)

Paint the case the same color as the plants (green & brown). Perhaps mount it to a 2x4 or 4x4 that is stuck in the ground.
The biggest issues are going to be:

• Plant grow and move in the wind. If they are "too close" the camera's vision will be impeded.
• Securing and protecting the 12v power cord.
• Ensuring there is a good WiFi connection at the specific location. (With WiFi, even a foot can mean the difference between 'five bars' and 'no bars'.

Auto discovery using IP almost certainly works using broadcast packets, which will remain on the local subnet. Thus, if the Reolink client is on a different subnet, I doubt very much that it can discover clients automatically.
Is the UID feature enabled on the camera setup? That is what makes it possible to access Reolink cameras remotely (through the "cloud").

My guess is that separating cameras from the Client on different IP subnets implies that the cameras will have to be manually defined in the Client using their actual IP addresses, and there will need to be static routes between the subnets to enable them to communicate.

The smartphone app should automatically detect the camera. Mine did.

I do not have an E1 Zoom, but my other Reolink cameras send motion captures to an FTP server on my local LAN at a private IP address (192.168.1.x)
I have run into an issue with the latest software on the RLC-510WA camera where the camera setting is to use plain, unencrypted FTP but the camera attempts to connect using an encrypted connection and the FTP server (FileZilla 1.3) rejects the encryption methods on the camera. I found this by looking in the log file of the FTP server. With the previous software, the camera did FTP just fine. The only way forward for this camera (and keeping the newer firmware) was to install a second FTP servers. Hoping that eventually Reolink will get around to fixing the FTP function.

Care to mention which FTP server you are using?

Update: I tried the Android app again this morning, and it now connects to all of my RLC and Argus cameras. Perhaps what I assumed was a problem with the Android app was instead an issue with the Reolink Cloud. The version remains 4.29.0.5 and now it works. Thanks to Fiona for prompting me to take another look.

I move the cursor over the 'split' icon in the lower right and click, which pops up a selection of 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 16, 25, 36 cameras.

Worse than that for me. Android app no longer connects to ANY of my cameras: Argus (original), RLC-4105MP, RLC-420-5MP, TLC-510WS.
NONE of them will even connect.
The Windows Client still works, but the Android app is now officially "broken".

My experience is the same as yours. I find it very frustrating. I have also noticed that Clear and Fluent motion recordings are not identical as to when they begin recording. I have asked for two changes:

1. Make the FTP motion file match the motion file on SD Card. (and both SD Card recordings match)
2. Allow the user to specify the number of seconds of prerecord and post record**. (within some reasonable limits)

** Imagine this scenario: There is a lot of traffic down my street. If the actual street is part of the 'detection zone', there would be 100's of recordings of cars going by that I have no interest in. I have set the detection zone to be when someone enters the space close to my front door. But, I would like to know how they came to be at my front door. Did they park at the curb (UPS, Amazon)? Did they walk across the yard (mailman)? So, let the recording start maybe 5 seconds before the person enters the 'zone' and keep going another 5 seconds after they leave it. (or 10 seconds, whatever).

So far..... nada.

I have RLC-410-5MP and RLC-420-5MP cameras in addition to the RLC-510WA. My suspicion is that engineering resources are allocated to new products and 'latest' products. The older cameras just "do what they do." If the customer doesn't like it, he should buy something else.

My guess is "no" and that PIR sensors already detect objects moving "up or down". It is the "straight on" issue that PIR cannot handle.
PIR sensors are a standard, mass produced module that seems to be "it does what it does, takes almost no power, and is cheap."

There is another entry on the download page for RLC-510WA/410W that has an update from Jan 19, 2022.
Which update applies to a specific camera appears to depend on the specific hardware part number of the camera.