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@reolink-fiona 
Yes. When is it, or is it ever going to be available in Australia? My PoE cable from the Reolink NVR has been hanging out the brick wall next to my front door for many months now in anticipation.

It would be better if Reolink came clean and told us the reason for the availability problem. I doubt it has anything to do with the sales team and more likely manufacturing/supply issues in China. Or possibly Reolink has limited the supply of this first generation doorbell due to a pending announcement of a 2nd generation that will address many of the limiting design aspects of this first gen one (eg limited field of view - maybe needs dual camera's)..

@philippe
I agree with the these positive points, except that it is not yet a great solution.

The big missing feature is the ability for a door bell press to ring a smart phone, like a normal phone call or or internet call app like WhatsApp/Signal and automatically open the Reolink client for the doorbell with video and audio presented.

The notification to the smart phone of too messy and cumbersome for interacting with a person at the door. The time it takes to act on a notification and all the manual process necessary, the person at the door would be gone.

I realise Reolink are working on implementing some smart home features like Google Home/Alexa support, which is all good, but the more basic features are needed first

I guess it can be implemented easily enough using SIP, so hopefully this can be rectified soon in updated firmware,