Reolink - Wired Video Doorbell (PoE)
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In the middle of ditching nest for Reolink as well. Done with nest after their last price increase to Aware. Reolinks are recoding to the SD card, as well as a QNAP NAS in the house. And using scrypted to pipe things to Apple HomeKit to have events still recorded in the cloud (you know, in case the bad guys steal the camera and the NAS). Google Nest can kick rocks.
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Sorry, I'm in the US but, Reolink and amcrest is what I use. Amcrest for all my wired security cameras, and reolink for my doorbell. If you care about the app, and direct HA integration, Reolink is probably your best choice in the inexpensive fully local market. Amcrest doesn't have a direct integration into HA, but they're nearly all rebranded Dahua so you can sometimes use the Dahua integration or in some cases need to find a way to load the original Dahua firmware onto the cameras. The second part seems to be getting more difficult with the more recent amcrest cameras. > 5mp+ is better Not sure where you saw this, but it's not always the case. The higher the resolution, the smaller the pixels to pick up light. Some cameras do make up for this with larger sensors, but not always. Generally, I feel like 5MP is more than enough for most situations. If you need to get clear images of people's faces or license plates, put the camera lower to the ground and get one with a longer focal length. If you want something more like the apple ecosystem, where things just work, and there's interoperability with multiple other systems from the same manufatcurer check out Ubiquiti. You get a ton of cool, enterprise grade features, but the cost is way higher, especially if you don't already have unifi hardware.
r/homeassistant • Security and door cameras, what do you use, or what should I look for with Black Friday coming up? ->My simple reolink doorbell works with two way audio. The doorbell is connected to Frigate, and frigate is integrated in home assistant. As an added bonus, you also get an NVR with cool object recognition, and you can trigger automations based on that
r/homeassistant • Video doorbell with native two-way audio in Home Assistant: still no turnkey solution, even with “Works with HA”? ->I would recommend the Reolink doorbell (not battery). There is also the Amcrest AD410, but most have jumped onto the Reolink once it was released. Reason being is it isn't locked down, you can add it other NVRs, software (i.e. Blue Iris), or your own NVR stack (Scrypted NVR - AI face recognition etc). All your own storage. Not that expensive to do imo- mini PC $180 + NAS/external storage $250.
r/homesecurity • Help finding door bell camera that records 24/7 and doesn’t need a subscription. ->Yes I am. The battery one only records motion, and only works with the Reolink app. It doesn't do proper 24/7 recording. You will end up locked in. You can put an sd card into either, and access the recordings through the Reolink app. The way I suggested, you would build your own Network Video Recorder. Buy your own storage. But with that you get a lot more freedom. Hope that makes sense.
r/homesecurity • Help finding door bell camera that records 24/7 and doesn’t need a subscription. ->Just to make sure. The battery one is what I advised against. The Non battery just uses the power from your regular doorbell- not hard to install. Apologies- throughout this thing I didn't read your last sentence. If you don't have the connections, then yeah... Only other thing I could recommend is running Ethernet to the doorbell, but that required running the wire :P
r/homesecurity • Help finding door bell camera that records 24/7 and doesn’t need a subscription. ->Reolink was already recommended but I’m here to second it. You can do local storage on your own wifi or store video in an sd card in the camera. Got it because I didn’t want a subscription and wanted exclusive access to the video, not stored on someone else’s servers
r/BuyItForLife • Best Doorbell Camera That Doesn't Require A Subscription? ->Reolink…been using their product for over 10 years
r/homesecurity • Any Good Smart Doorbell Cameras in 2025 That Aren’t Subscription Traps? ->We have a Reolink PoE doorbell and I have it in Home Assistant and Unifi Protect.
r/homeassistant • My Wife thinks the Unifi G4 Doorbell Pro is Ugly ->I use the Reolink integration and Frigate with HA for live camera feeds on my dashboards and things like pop-ups when someone rings the doorbell. I use Unifi Protect as a separate recording system. Lots of ways to slice and dice it. Edit: I also have Hikvision ptz cameras in both systems. PTZ controls via ONVIF work better in Frigate than UProtect in my opinion.
r/homeassistant • My Wife thinks the Unifi G4 Doorbell Pro is Ugly ->If you're already using Reolink I'd give their doorbell cam a try. I've got the PoE version and it works great.
r/smarthome • Looking for a good door bell wireless battery power camera ->I just install my doorbell to HA and am testing myself to see which one is best for the battery. I have my doorbell facing a street so I don't know if it makes much of an impact. So far I have lost 10% in about 3 hours. Right now I only have it set to take a picture when you press the bell. The cold affects it, but I don't know if there is anything else that affects it. You might regret not choosing a POE installation.
r/reolinkcam • Reolink battery doorbell, battery life? and more ->Yes, Reolink Doorbell. But I'm trying different settings. I found that the infrared lamp was turning on quite often, so that setting is turned off now, so it's a little better.
r/reolinkcam • Reolink battery doorbell, battery life? and more ->It's too big project for me to solve a POE solution so that's why it became a wireless one with battery. I have power on the other side of the wall so I don't know if I can drill out or take from the lamp over the doorbell.
r/reolinkcam • Reolink battery doorbell, battery life? and more ->So first night I lose 3% from 22-06.
r/reolinkcam • Reolink battery doorbell, battery life? and more ->Plus one more for Reolink! I have the PoE doorbell hooked up to their NVR and it works flawlessly. The HA integration kicks ass too.
r/homeassistant • My Google Nest Doorbell camera died. What should I replace it with? ->I have no problem with the reolink app. It works and is pretty straightforward. It usesy Synology as an NVR which is great. I haven't done much with it inside HA so far.
r/smarthome • View on Reddit →Nah, the PoE ones don't contain a battery.
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →One disadvantage of this is that you're relying heavily on your smart home for your doorbell That can be fine but can also mean you do sometimes miss a caller I'd personally still install a physical doorbell - I use mine on WiFI (one WiFi camera does no harm, although I wouldn't want 20), but I believe with the Reolink you can use both Ethernet and doorbell wiring, so running both gets you the best of both worlds (and both options in future when changing doorbell) If you're installing one you may as well install the other IMO, adding both won't be much more expensive than just installing one
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →yep - i have mine setup to record local and ftp to my storage server. 1 is good, 2 are better.
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →We have REOLINK. The cameras constantly record and the file is saved to a computer in our home for two weeks. (We can change it to whatever, but that seemed like the best compromise for space requirements.). We initially had a Ring, but it was frustrating that it would start recording as someone walked away from the door.
r/homeowners • View on Reddit →You need a PoE doorbell. Reolink sells a good PoE doorbell. If you want to have cameras then you want good PoE cameras from a good reliable brand Never go with wireless/wi-fi cameras or the likes, doesn't matter what brand, they are not reliable at all. If you fully own this property there is no reason at all for not going with a PoE camera system. The amount of problems Wi-Fi/Wireless cameras have are just way too many. As you say, they are prone to Wi-Fi jammers, the quality of the footage is inferior to PoE, the night and day performance are inferior to PoE, the smart detection is inferior to PoE, you will have issues connecting to them, you WILL miss events, you WILL miss important crucial footage, you can't record 24/7 with wireless (except for one particular model but still no), 24/7 recording with Wi-Fi plugged cameras isn't reliable either. As you can see, your fears are well founded, but, funny enough, it won't be a Wi-Fi jammer what most likely will disable your Wi-Fi/Wireless camera, but the camera itself, if that makes sense. Again, that's why you go with PoE, since it doesn't have any of those issues... So yes, you are correct when you say that PoE/wired cameras are less easier to hack (they are immune to Wi-Fi jammers and pretty much close to 0 for other types of much more advanced hacking, which you really will never be a target of, if you take security measures for your Wi-Fi/internet and camera settings). As for your internet, go with fiber optic internet, 600+ Mbps. If you can get 1 Gbps then that's better. Technically you should be good with 100 Mbps for your internet, but in this time and age I would only go with 500/600+ Mbps to be safe. This is of course, assuming you live in an urban environment where fiber optic can arrive to your location, otherwise, if you live in a very rural area, consider in getting Starlink as your internet solution (which should reach around 300 Mbps but it is good enough still).
r/homesecurity • View on Reddit →I am not sure about the Google compatible part ... But all my IP cameras have worked without issue in extreme cold temperatures. -55 F is probably the coldest I've seen where I reside. But over the last 15 years really no issues. Current doorbell is a Reolink but I have used other brands in the past. So what I am saying is just get what's best for your situation... I'm pretty sure it will work.
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →Reolink PoE doorbell. That's the least delay you are going to get.
r/homesecurity • View on Reddit →I've not tested down to -40, but the Reolink PoE cams work with Google Home and I've have zero issues with them working down to -16F/-27C
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →Reolink PoE doorbell is the best, but if you can't do PoE then it is sort of debatable between Reolink, Eufy and maybe Tapo. If you are looking into getting more cameras that actually work (that means PoE cameras) in the future then you should go with Reolink. This is because not only you will be able to use that with a full Reolink setup but also will work with other setups where you mix brands (as long as you buy the PoE or Wi-Fi model). Arlo, Ring, Blink and all the other "popular" brands are trash. Avoid them.
r/homesecurity • View on Reddit →Same. Works great natively, or if you want to flow it through frigate. Make sure to give it a static IP address on your router. I had a problem with it hopping around.
r/homeassistant • View on Reddit →Yeah our new home did come with one and I really appreciate it - I like a smart doorbell but having it wired AND with ethernet just seems like the best of both worlds. Mine triggers my wired chime by my front door, while also triggering a couple of other chimes around my house where the front door one isn't visible, and then you still get the video etc and power either way A bunch of family members have battery doorbells and honestly they just seem like a PITA. Obviously that's not the comparison here as PoE would still be powered, but I still think I'd rather have both
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →*I'm looking for a doorbell that is connected to an electrical outlet/electricity and that also has battery as a backup in case there is a power outage.* *This doorbell should be connected to wifi and should also have 4g/5g as a backup in case the wifi stops working due to, for example, a power outage.* These are problems to solve on your infrastructure side. My Reolink can do all of those because it's PoE, on a UPS and my router has WAN failover to 5G.
r/homeassistant • View on Reddit →This is why I bought reolink for our doorbell. It works really good and the chime is pretty loud
r/Ubiquiti • View on Reddit →Reolink video doorbell good here - finally! The biggest issue I had was multiple connections just screwing up the camera and overloading it, leading to all kinds of dropouts, failures and even the doorbell button not responding. I have Frigate NVR and the feed is shown on five Android based devices around the house (Lenovo ThinkSmart View). I finally fixed it by using scrypted as the only connection to the camera. Frigate, HA, HomeKit and the ThinkSmarts all now connect to the restream and it works perfectly. No more endless errors and retries in Frigate too. So yes, they can be good and sometimes the only option if you can’t run Ethernet to the door.
r/homeassistant • View on Reddit →I mean it's be silly to have my switch on UPS but not the router and modem, yes the whole rack is battery backed. *Can the reolink units be accessed directly via ip* Yes they also work well with the HA plugin.
r/homeassistant • View on Reddit →It's too big project for me to solve a POE solution so that's why it became a wireless one with battery. I have power on the other side of the wall so I don't know if I can drill out or take from the lamp over the doorbell.
r/reolinkcam • View on Reddit →Reolink would be the best option. Eufy is ok but they don't integrate well with third party smart home systems.
r/homesecurity • View on Reddit →The battery doorbell cannot do 24/7 recording. The wired doorbells can. Both have the same AI detectors as far as I know. (But the wired black doorbell (landscape view) don't do packages detection the the white wired ones (portrait view) due to the different camera views. If you want 24/7 recording get the wired doorbells (wifi or poe), and if you want package detection get the wired white doorbell. If you don't care about 24/7 recording the battery should be fine
r/reolinkcam • View on Reddit →Same. I made my Reolink doorbell HKSV compatible via Scrypted, but the Reolink randomly croaked this week. Decided to try the G410 cause of native HKSV, but now the G400 seems like a more reliable option, even though it's a lower model? Who the heck makes a doorbell that's not fully weather resistant? I want an HKSV doorbell that works with my existing doorbell wiring that is reliable. That's it. Maybe Apple will make one eventually.
r/Aqara • View on Reddit →Reolink Wi-Fi doorbell. Negative reviews are 99% from user error. People think it is a PoE camera. It is Wi-Fi, and as with any Wi-Fi camera regardless of the brand you will have issues. Still, within doorbell cameras that are Wi-Fi, Reolink Wi-Fi is the best for the residential use... And that's because many reasons, but the one of the most important things is that it can work with Wi-Fi 5. You also have to manually update the firmware for it to work properly. If you don't want issues at all then get the Reolink PoE doorbell instead. That with the manually updated firmware is flawless. So I will say that is the best residential doorbell at the moment. EDIT: Just saw that Ubiquiti released the G6 doorbell, so reolink PoE doorbell might no longer be the best for home use.
r/homesecurity • View on Reddit →Feels like I'm the lone warrior here recommending Tapo ?? I have the D235, and it's great. It does cover head to toe, but you need to be strategic with placing it to ensure it covers the toe area you need. I like the ring-to-call feature — instead of just a notification, I get an actual phone call. A doorbell press is important, so I think a call demands immediate attention, unlike a pop-up that you might miss. The lag is mimimal - it was the fastest among the ones i compared (Eufy e340 and Reolink). I did a similar test like you've done - i bought all three and returned the Eufy and Reolink. Reolink seems to have a lot of fans but it performed so poorly compared to the Tapo. It was significantly laggy and the app was bad. Tapo's app is so much more refined and polished. A few reasons I didn't go with Eufy are 1. No 24x7 recording (You'll need it sometimes if you don’t have a dedicated camera in the front) 2. No RTSP support and 3. Eufy has a history of lying about it's encryption. You can read about it online
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →No HomeKit, but Reolink PoE works great, ONVIV into Blue Iris. Was just commenting this morning about how reliable it has been compared to previous WiFi models we tried, PoE is the way to go! https://preview.redd.it/yv7wlvbrq64f1.jpeg?width=1664&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1711372c00cecba459b9caacf227daeb14cb02c4
r/HomeKit • View on Reddit →Don’t have it in HK, but the Reolink PoE is awesome, no WiFi or goofy power, super reliable, only posting this here because … ‘it doesn’t suck’.
r/HomeKit • View on Reddit →recently installed the reolink poe doorbell, love it so far
r/homeassistant • View on Reddit →Yes, Reolink Doorbell. But I'm trying different settings. I found that the infrared lamp was turning on quite often, so that setting is turned off now, so it's a little better.
r/reolinkcam • View on Reddit →If you're buying a Reolink doorbell, here is a tip that isn't immediately obvious. The camera sensor orientation is different based on the color of the doorbell you select. If you get a white doorbell, the sensor is in a portrait orientation and can do package detection. If it is a black doorbell, the sensor is in landscape orientation and it doesn't do package detection.
r/reolinkcam • View on Reddit →Spot on. I switched from Nest. Best move I made. Excellent HA integration and very fast. I get 4.5 days of continuous on the SD card in the camera and 6 on the NVR.
r/reolinkcam • View on Reddit →you can use the HA integration with the Reolink on a local only VLAN. it takes a bit of setup to get 2 way voice working though.
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →If you're already using Reolink I'd give their doorbell cam a try. I've got the PoE version and it works great.
r/smarthome • View on Reddit →Reolink PoE doorbell and Ubiquiti Doorbell Lite are the current best 2 doorbells for residential use as of now, IMO. Which one to use depends on some factors.
r/homesecurity • View on Reddit →They *can* come with a chime, but don't always Certainly getting it with a chime is better, but that then limits you to always buying a doorbell that comes with a chime (or relying on your smart home) I just think that for something like a doorbell, there's something to be said for a wired connection to an old school chime - my smart chimes occasionally throw a wobbly, my OH chime works every time I'm not saying everyone HAS to have one, just that if I'm paying someone to pull wires anyway, I'd probably pay them to pull both - most of the cost is just to have the electrician there and drilling holes, fishing for tape etc... the cost to have them pull two wires at that point rather than one is usually gonna be pretty negligible
r/homeautomation • View on Reddit →Reolink was already recommended but I’m here to second it. You can do local storage on your own wifi or store video in an sd card in the camera. Got it because I didn’t want a subscription and wanted exclusive access to the video, not stored on someone else’s servers
r/BuyItForLife • View on Reddit →At the moment it is Reolink PoE doorbell and Ubiquiti Doorbell Lite. Note both options are PoE. PoE is the best, not Wi-Fi. What to go with really depends on your full camera system. G6 doorbell next year will be the best for residential use, hand down. Reolink could also possibly come up with a new doorbell model, we'll see.
r/homesecurity • View on Reddit →Sure. I'd recommend get Reolink doorbell, and then connecting it to their first party NVR solution or something like Frigate or BlueIris.
r/smarthome • View on Reddit →10000% Agree. You are trying to make one camera do the work of at least two cameras here. Get a wired PoE doorbell cam to do doorbell cam duty. Then get either as u/Curious\_Party\_4683 suggested a 4mm or greater lens, or a cameras with PTZ (with actual optical Z) and auto tracking. Reolink and Unifi make good options for both of those.
r/smarthome • View on Reddit →I ditched ring about a year ago and have been really happy with Reolink . Local access, no subscription required. I now have their video doorbell and 3 other cameras.
r/TwoXPreppers • View on Reddit →In the middle of ditching nest for Reolink as well. Done with nest after their last price increase to Aware. Reolinks are recoding to the SD card, as well as a QNAP NAS in the house. And using scrypted to pipe things to Apple HomeKit to have events still recorded in the cloud (you know, in case the bad guys steal the camera and the NAS). Google Nest can kick rocks.
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