Video Doorbell PoE

Writing a short review from the experience of having used this device for around 6 months. For privacy reasons I will not be showing any photos of the picture quality in this review Chose this as a video doorbell because it did not require any cloud integration to work, record footage, and so forth. Camera is powered over PoE, but can also be powered over doorbell wiring (if you want to for some reason). Because it uses a wired network connection the connection is always stable and not affected by your wireless connection. Not having to replace batteries is also a great benefit. Granted, you must be in a place where you can route an Ethernet cable. The way the mounting hardware works the cable has to come through the wall right behind the doorbell and not from the top or bottom. However, if you are a bit handy or own a 3d-printer you could easily work around it if need be. I created a model on Printables that should allow you to guide the cable from the bottom. Image quality for it’s intended use is great, you can see a lot of detail, field of view easily allows you to see people approaching from the side and night vision also works great. I would say perfectly fit for purpose. The software is not the nicest, the app has a store page for other Reolink products / services. Which mostly seems like an ad to me. It is not always the easiest to navigate and I am unsure about how secure the infrastructure is. It does work well enough, push notifications work. And I have had no major issues with it. The biggest upside on the software side is that the camera can record locally to a Micro-sd card or to a file server on the network (have not tested the later) so no need to pay any additional monthly fees. If you set it to only record on person detection, even a small 64GB Micro-sd card should offer plenty of space. Person detection works quite well too. Included chime also works alright does what it should, has a few tunes to choose from, and it should integrate with other chimes too, but I have not tested that. Nor have I tested the home-assistant integration. Overall I would say the doorbell is great. Software could use a little polish, but besides that not much more to wish for.

Excellente sonnette vidéo PoE avec une très belle qualité d'image en 2K. Mon portail se trouve à 120 m de la maison et, malgré cette distance, elle fonctionne parfaitement via un câble Ethernet CAT 6E : aucun problème d'alimentation ni de qualité vidéo. L'installation est simple et le kit est complet, avec notamment un support incliné à 15° et un carillon à branché sur une prise de courant. L'application Reolink est très complète et permet de nombreux réglages : notifications sur smartphone, zones de confidentialité, mode nuit, détection, alarme à distance, etc. Dès qu'un visiteur sonne, je reçois un appel sur mon GSM ainsi que sur celui de mon épouse, où que nous soyons. Nous pouvons voir et parler en direct avec la personne devant le portail, ce qui est particulièrement pratique pour les livraisons. Seul bémol : le carillon fourni communique en radio sur 868 MHz et ne fonctionne pas à 120 m de distance. J'avais pensé que le signal passerait également par le câble Ethernet, mais ce n'est malheureusement pas le cas. Malgré ce point, je suis très satisfait de mon achat et je recommande vivement ce produit.

I wanted a doorbell with a camera, but didnt want to pay for any subscription nonsense. Great value for money, good enough camera with good integration with home assistant No problems with recording, and notifications come though well, although sometimes delayed but that may be my phone. I do have the option to block this from the internet for added security, btu this loses phone notifications, but could use home assistant for this instead

Miałem duże problemy ze sparowaniem dzwonka z kamerą. Support polecił ręczną aktualizację firmware urządzenia NVR co rozwiązało problem. Mimo wszystko nie wiem, czy bez NVR dałoby się to zrobić. W każdym razie byłoby 5/5 gdyby nie początkowe problemy z instalacją EDIT Kamera działa bardzo dobrze ale samnprodukt jest beznadziejny - nie da się sparować kamery z dołączonym dzwonkiem

Very stable and, no issues at all..