Posts made by tomsreolink

@joseph_1979 12Mbps uplink is "rather low"??? Really??? Dunno where you are, but you are wrong. At my other house it's maybe 5 up and my Skybell works quite well.

I guess the Reolink doorbell is only suitable for city dwellers with fiber or some such.

Oh my, thanks everyone for the responses. As I said I miss some of my Skybell button presses, but at least the devices always make a recording that is (eventually) available to me. I suspect that a doorbell press on the Skybell is just too "busy" for it in that it needs to start recording, which means I think sending upstream to the cloud, and at the same time send the keypress probably to Skybell and then down to my phone for the Alert I then get. If I ask it to show me live video, it often times cannot, and I think it may be because it is still uploading video at the same time.

At any rate since my Skybell uses Wi-Fi, I had hoped that the PoETHERNET Reolink would have a huge speed advantage over it.

Maybe the product can be improved with firmware updates but I will hold-off on purchasing for now.

I am thinking to replace a Skybell (Wi-Fi) with the Reolink POE doorbell and connecting it to my NVR, but it requires a bit of work to run the ethernet cable, so I hafta ask: Is the Reolink responsive/fast? My complaint about my Skybells (one at each of two houses) is that while the notices of a button-press are mostly instant, the connection process takes long enough that I miss some of the people that are trying to contact me. ISP not the issue I think at 370Mpbs down and 12Mbps up. Do the ethernet Reolinks respond "instantly"?

@reolink-lorenz Thanks Lorenz, I had a vague notion that I might take-advantage of the NVR's extra PoE ports, since I don't have any other PoE switches at this time. I guess not.

My subject PoE NVR has just five ports occupied, one by the original Duo, and four with RLC-810A PoE cams. I've also connected via WiFi an E1 Outdoor cam, thus consuming a total of 7 channels for recording and playback.

1. I assume the RLN8 is limited to 8 eight channels of recording/playback, correct?
2. If Yes and I add another PoE camera, I've maxed-out my recording capability, correct?
3. Is there any way to use the two empty PoE ports to add other PoE devices to my network, or would there be no way to customize their IPs to my regular home's subnet?

Thanks for any feedback.

@campbell_99 If you had no video signal out, how could you update the firmware?

Note if you return it to Amazon w/o further tinkering, all of your recordings could possibly end-up in some stranger's possession; just something to thing about.

I guess if it were me, I would get a new hard drive and see if it boots-up with that. But indeed you should consult Reolink support to see what ideas they might have.

Thinking about the possible failure of my own RLN8-410, I wonder what "backup" options Reolink might suggest? I'm thinking the only option I have is to open it up, pull the drive, and use an imaging program e.g. Acronis to make an image backup.

@steve_701706398327000 Steve you would use the Set Detection Area for that, and mask-out the street area(s).

@joseph_1979 I searched and surfed and surfed some more and never found that!

So, I am right that if the icon shows "morion detected" yet no recording is made, that means "smartness" has been applied?

I will try to look at all your FAQs thanks.

I've owned and generally enjoyed my various Reolink cams and RLN8-410 NVR for six or eight months now, but have struggled mightily to get the myriad of motion settings right. Can someone tell me what this icon/symbol means?



The above from my NVR and I can see it also in the iOS app though it appears upper-right outside the frame. It comes and goes, and there is no recording that is kept following its appearance.

I appears possibly to be signalling detected motion, but then the motion is filtered-out by one or more of the Detection settings? Am I right?

Is there any place on the reolink.com site that explains all the settings, and also the on-screen icons and such???

@hlbullis_280003274907849 Herb the internal drive is likely connected with a SATA cable at least, if not a power cable as well. How can you imagine to place this external from the housing and not have this be obvious to a thief?

Assuming it is the RECORDINGS that you don't want taken-away from you, I believe you can set-up FTP to a drive e.g. connected to a PC or your router elsewhere in your home, and have all events transferred to that as well over ethernet or wifi. This may be help:

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000623886-How-to-Upload-Continuous-Recordings-to-FTP-on-Reolink-App/

It seems to me that unless the thief completely ransacked your house, he could be thwarted in this way.

If instead you don't want the thief to take your NVR and possess your recordings, well I dunno about that, I don't think though that it is possible to encrypt the contents of the NVR.

@reo247_315650692358374 @reolink-lorenz

I would normally hate that you bumped a very old thread, but am glad because now I know NEVER to use Reolink's cloud service. If I want any (or all) of my cloud videos deleted NOW, I want them deleted NOW not when Reolink gets around to it.

If Reolink is trying to protect customers from "making a mistake" they can instead just have a level (or two) of ARE YOU SURE? ARE YOU REALLY SURE? ARE YOU REALLY REALLY SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE, CUZ WE CAN'T RECOVER THEM FOR YOU!

@ed_682671253913811 these help quite a lot though not perfectly. And I had to use some better adhesive as they blew-off the first time in high winds...

Go to B and H Photo and search on Bubblebee lav covers. About $16 bucks.

For some reason Reolink won't let me post the link.

I installed 8.10.4 to my Windows 7 Pro and all manner of problems starting with multicam view and Playback date popups not working.

Finally found 8.8.5 here:

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012466173-All-Reolink-Client-Versions/

and am going to uninstall and reinstall 8.8.5 which AFAICT was working perfectly.

Reolink needs to make older versions available more easily, not to mention to do a better job of testing new releases.