REOLINK Video Doorbell PoE 2K Wired Outdoor Security Camera with Chime V2

5 months in to having our camera installed and I am pleased with the product. The biggest challenge was getting started on the ethernet installation. The additional supplies needed to complete the installation were bought on amazon as well: Monoprice Cat6 Blue CMP Patch Cable UTP Solid 23AWG 550MHz Pure Bare Copper Snagless RJ45 Entegrade Series Ethernet Cable (35 feet) Gigabit PoE+ Injector Powerline Network Adapter IEEE 802.3af/at | 10/100/1000Mbps,48V, 15.4W (PoE) or 30W (PoE+), Up to 100 M (328 ft) Range, Product Meets UL Certified Standards (I got 1 GB, $20) This was a new install in a century old house in a humid climate, so I spent significant time researching vendors as well as Wifi vs. Ethernet. My house is raised on brick piers, with a four foot crawlspace accessible (for the brave). My nephew crawled with the cable under my house and brought it up through a small hole in the baseboard of a first floor media room. Getting the cable from the porch wall to the floor was the biggest challenge, and we used clothing hangers, string, and other random things to cajole it through the wall. The best pay off is that it is intuitive to use the app, the app is reliable, and I can change the settings based on if I'm on vacation or home. The video quality is great, even at night. Living on a busy road, I appreciate not getting false positive alerts. The POE option is great if you want to risk over-working your WIFI. All in all, this is an excellent value for a camera, and I plan to purchase and install more around my home's exterior. One request, I wish the vendor would make some more upscale options, like a silver plated plate and an LED lighted button. I look to hotel design for my home's entrance, and something metal would convey a more substantial security system.

The video doorbell POE 2K was professionally installed and connected to my Reolink NVR. The doorbell and chime are working great! The video is high resolution and recorded to the NVR. This doorbell is far superior to the wireless doorbell (from a different manufacturer) it replaced. The coolest thing about the chime is that it plays music as someone approaches the front door, giving me a heads-up that my doorbell will ring within a few seconds. I love my RLN16-410 NVR and the eight cameras connected.

When shopping for a doorcam, I didn't want to get stuck with a subscription to use my purchase. That eliminated most of the more major brands. So it was down to Reolink and a well-known networking "prosumer" brand who also sells surveillance gear but was very over-priced. The quality of Reolink is amazing and it is very reasonably priced. It has motion detect and will tell you if a human, animal or vehicle comes within view. You can configure it to receive a phone call when someone rings the door. The doorbell is customizable as well. The whole thing was very easy to set up. It took me longer to splice in the RJ45 jack on my front door (house came with unterminated ethernet) than to install. Has a nice optional angled face plate so you can get the right view. The image and video quality is outstanding. Night vision works very well. It integrates with your home automation too. For instance, you can set up your system to use this doorcam to notify your automation when a person walks up to the door and turn on the front door light. Do plan to purchase an SD card for your unit. Battery life isn't an issue. It draws power from either your doorbell wiring or from POE is you wire it to an NVR. They say you should use a Reolink NVR, but I was able to get it to work just fine with a different brand. I plan to buy a full camera and NVR package from them at some point.

Decent for what it does without breaking the bank, but I probably wouldnt purchase it again. Pictire quality is good. Not as great as cameras twice the cost. The big let down is the frame rate which ends up goong down to 8 fps at times, even when constant rate is selected, which is a big let down. Night shots have limited vision, about 15 feet and are generally blurry. It is a bit unfair to put this up against a model twice the price from a different manufacturer, but the twice the price on has so much better quality in pictire and a larger aperature which goves full night color without a light... I'd pay twice the price for that one over this. If you are on a strict budget though, this is a good pick. Just don't get your hopes up for good fps or night picture quality.

The biggest reason I chose this over a Wi-Fi doorbell is PoE. One Ethernet cable handles both power and data, so there’s no battery to charge and the connection has been extremely reliable. Installation tip: test the doorbell and network connection before permanently mounting it. It’s much easier to troubleshoot the cable or PoE connection while everything is still accessible. The Home Assistant integration is excellent. I have the live feed available with my other cameras and can use events from the doorbell in automations. It also works well as part of a larger Reolink camera setup rather than forcing you into a separate doorbell ecosystem. Video quality is excellent, notifications are quick, and I haven’t had to think about charging a battery once. If you already have Ethernet available at the door, I’d choose PoE every time.

I had bought into the whole Blink infrastructure, yea I know. Which was comically bad. The doorbell didn't work as a doorbell after one of their many updates, which is kinda an inexcusable fail. The only person that could hear it "ring" was the person that pushed the button. Recorded video and detected motion OK, but was the worst of the Blink products at that. I had one on every outside door (5). Between that and their Floodlight, that doesn't reliably work as a floodlight, I gave up, all going in the bin. That was a Black Friday impulse buy, and bought more of it, as it worked pretty well for what it costs for a while, then they updated it into uselessness. So, a little research this time around, and came across the Reolink, and well, by comparison, it's night and day. As a doorbell, it does what you'd expect a doorbell to do, push the button and it rings, and with the Alexa skill, it rings everywhere, and in my house that's a lot of places. It's like noon in an old clock shop when someone pushes the button. Given that the problem it was intended to solve was a vendor who felt their product was so valuable that it required an in-person direct adult signature to deliver, and the old doorbell gave the false sense than I heard that there was someone at the door, well the Riolink was ordered, delivered and installed before that delivery was re-attempted the next day. So the Riolink costs a lot more than the Blink, but still, not all that expensive. I have also worked with Axis which is the polar opposite. The Riolink is cheap in comparison to those. But the Riolink has a whole lot more in common with Axis than with Blink. I mean it's just a doorbell, but that doorbell has all the same kind of camera configuration options as the Axis cameras had. Not least of which, and maybe this sounds dumb, but the ability to just bring up the camera and watch it if you are expecting something. I don't know how common that is for all the consumer doorbell cams between the bottom of the barrel Blink and the Riolink, but NOT being able to just camp on a cam seemed pretty ridiculous to me. And i can do this on a real screen, on my PC and not be restricted to a smartphone app. All this makes it way better, BUT that's just the tip of the iceberg. It has some pretty impressive integration with Home Assistant, it has actual Ethernet conductivity, and PoE, and it has a pretty impressive image quality. Yea, I had to drill a hole because it wasn't just batteries and WiFi, but I'd rather have wired or wireless any day, worth the effort. Oh and support for local storage. So, the nit picks... The included angle bracket isn't enough and additional one to stack them up aren't available, and unlike a lot of the doorbell cameras there is no aftermarket for such things. I ordered some made for the Arlo cam that many have adapted for this cam, we'll see how that goes. Yea there are a lot of people selling 3D printed ones, but I'd rather just buy something manufactured, even if I have to adapt it. The included chime is a 1 to 1 thing, apparently you can pair to more than 1 chime but you can't pair multiple doorbells to the same chime. It would be nice to have multiple chimes and multiple doorbells and they all just work with all, but I guess not. However the Alexa integration really makes that not so much of a deal as I have an Echo or a FireTV Cube in every room, so honestly the chime doesn't matter so much. The down side of that is that you are no longer local if you are using that skill, from either side, you have to join the cams to the Riolink cloud service and then pair that service with Alexa which is also cloud. Oh and I had initially bought 2, the PoE version and the WiFi version, not really realizing that the WiFi version still needs to be externally powered. It does however also have an Ethernet port, which I wish also did PoE but it doesn't. I had bought a bunch of 24V PoE injectors a while back hoping they would power my EcoBee thermostats (they didn't, AC only apparently) but they work fine on the WiFi version of the Riolink, I guess even the included power adapter is actually 24V DC (not the 24VAC that is typical for doorbell wiring). So apparently AC/DC doesn't matter, though did read somewhere that it's 24V DC or 12-24V AC, so guessing that much more commonly available 12V PoE adapters wouldn't work. Anyway, like I said I had 5 Blink doorbells, which are all getting replaced with these. I have tons of PoE ports in my house, so it's just a matter of getting a cable from A to B. I will be trying Their cameras as replacements for the rest of the Blink stuff as well, so far I am impressed, a few minor gripes, but overall meets and exceeds...

By far one of the worst Poe doorbell cameras I've ever owned. In my opinion, POE is a wired connection and should have a good network signal without delay, while WIFI connection will have network problems. I have had many different types of doorbell cameras and installed them all myself. and once I had it up and running, it wasn't even a week before the camera would go offline on its own randomly. I most cases obviously it would be when I needed to view the behavior of my outdoor during a heavy storm and I was out of town. came home to an offline device with no signs of any signs of disconnect or damage from anything, so I removed the device from the network and restarted the device as if I just took it out of the box. It didn't last a week, and after multiple times of trying the system remotely with complete success, it failed again when I needed it the most. Also, Poor product. The picture quality was average, and the lag between the app and camera when the camera was online with the app, or ONVIF NVR, was horrible. The lag is so bad that you can not center on the object you want unless you get lucky. Seriously, there is a 20-30 second lag time from when the camera actually online. And if it will overshoot the spot you wanted, then it just becomes a constant look of coming up short or overshooting. I don’t recommend this product if you plan on ever having to use the camera online to connect NVR. Which is one of the main options we are looking for. So good luck and consider yourself warned. This product always randomly stutters, delays, and disconnects offline.

Great Doorbell Camera—Completes the System This is the latest addition to my camera setup and pretty much rounds out the system for now, with plans to add a couple WiFi cameras later. The camera itself is very wide angle and produces a sharp, clear image. Motion detection works well, and night vision is crisp and reliable. The doorbell function and included chime are a nice touch and integrate well into the overall setup. I’m running this on PoE through my NVR system, and like the rest of my setup, it’s been solid and easy to manage. This is just one component of a full system I’m running with multiple Reolink cameras (see my other reviews), and everything ties together well in one app. If you’re looking to build out a complete home camera system, I can definitely recommend Reolink based on my experience so far. One System. Complete Coverage.

有線LANだからかもしれないけれど、反応が速い。 Wi-Fiタイプ(他社)を使っていましたが、とても実用には耐えなかったので、更新。 画像が、やや端の部分が以前のWi-Fiタイプより歪むのだけが残念。 でも、出先で普通に応答可能。おすすめです。

My boyfriend installed this, he is a sparky and had no trouble. Took him about 30 minutes. It looks great and works well connected with our 7 other Reolink cameras!

It is perfect, I like the POE because I don't need to use any transforrmer. I need to add that homeassistant integration was a real added value for me.

I purchased this camera on august 09, 2023. It has an excellent 2K+ picture and lots of great features. I really like its ability to store my videos on a FTP server. The video storage is limited only by the hard disk storage on my server. I don't have to pay for cloud storage and I already had several computers to use as a FTP server. My neighbour pays a monthly fee for his storage. I was worried that it wouldn't survive the harsh Newfoundland winters. It worked fine during winter of 2023 but began to fog up last winter. We get a lot of freeze thaw cycles and a lot of wind rain and snow. I couldn't really fault the camera. I also have two Reolink RLC-810A 4K cameras with the same features and they have been working great through two winters. I got in contact with Reolink support and they were good enough to send me a replacement camera. I installed it today and it works great. Overall I am quite pleased with my Reolink cameras. When I need another camera I'll definitely purchase another one from Reolink. The cameras and support are top notch. Thank you Reolink.

Algo complicado de instalar en una casa de concreto pero después de taladrar bien y crearle su registro dentro para pasar el ethernet es simplemente increíble