Posts made by Snaffs_236818799935657

Serious question I hope someone can answer.
So I have a WiFi connected Reolink Camera, which is, of course connected on my Home Wifi to the Internet.
And I view/access/operate this camera using the Reolink App on my phone.

I can of course do this from home, when I am connected to my home WiFi
Or I can do this at work, or I guess anywhere in the world if I have a WiFi or cellular connection.

As you have to put in your home WiFi name and password into the Reolink app.
And also create a password to access your camera into the Reolink app

How can I be sure no-one else. Someone at Reolink even, can not view me through my WiFi camera?

Thank you.

I was going to suggest/ask for this option also.
I am glad to hear it will be added to a future version of the app

Was my question too complicated as had no reply?
I'll change the question.

How can we be sure, and what can we do, to be sure our E1 Zoom indoor camera is off and not recording my family when we are home in the same room as the camera?

Is there some setting or way to know it's off, seems silly yo have to unplug it every time we are at home.

Wow, this is exactly the same question I just posted after buying my 1st Reolink indoor camera.
Like yourself, I wish to feel private and secure and not have the Camera be on whilst I am home in the same room.

Another camera brand I bought a few weeks earlier, has power controls on it's main page, and I just assumed it would be the same for all cams from different makers, as I would imagine most people, if they are home, perhaps in their living room watching TV in the evening, don't wish to feel the camera is still on recording them all the time.

Very important for indoor camera's

Additionally (if anyone from Reolink reads this) it would be great to also have the option of camera's turning on/off based on your location.
So when you leave home the indoor cameras turn on, and when you come home they turn off.

Just as a little update.
I went into the Reolink app, pressed the PAUSE button II which seems to stop the live feed.
They exited the app.
However, when I move in the room, I still get notifications that movement has been detected.
So the camera is not off at all.

Despite looking everywhere I can't seem to find a camera off button, which is odd, esp for an indoor camera as I would have thought an on/off button would have been one of the 1st things you saw when opening the app.
Perhaps I'm being dumb, and just not seeing it !

Just yesterday I purchased my 1st ever Reolink Camera. An E1 Zoom, so I'm still finding my way around the app, and how it works.
I have a few initial "issues" I'd like to see improved upon, but leaving those aside for a moment, I have a very simple and basic question.

With some other brand indoor WiFi Camera's, in their app is like a power button for each camera.
You press this button, the Camera's Status light goes off, as do the IR lights, as the camera is now off (to whatever extent off it)
Which gives me great peace of mind in the evening that cameras are not watching indoors when we are home.

However, in the Reolink App for my new E1 Zoom I can't find any simple off button.
There is just, what looks like a Play/Pause button, but if I press pause, the Camera Status light is still on, and the IR lights still go on and off depending on the room darkness.

As it's for indoors, there must be some "power button" in the app I can't find yet?

Can someone help please as I'm not really comfortable with this camera still being so active when I wish privacy at home.

Thank you