REOLINK E1 Outdoor Plug-in WiFi Security Camera, 5MP HD PTZ Camera for Home Security, Motion Tracking, 5GHz WiFi, 3X Optical Zoom, Person Vehicle Detection, Spotlight Color Night Vision, APP Control

Had this system in place for about 2 weeks now, and would say it’s as advertised and agree with most of the more detailed reviews posted here. The system for me is somewhere between “plug and play” and requiring some minor technological grit, mainly with tinkering with the APP settings and functions. Ultimately, worth the price point and money. I had the fortunate situation of having power outlets in normally inaccessible spaces, also ideal for security cameras. This made these particular wired cameras a perfect option. Also love that you have dual options for either PoE or AC power alone. I bought an extra 256 micro SD to go with the one the comes with this particular system. It’s taking about 2 weeks to fill and begin overwriting old date with one camera recording 24/7, and the other camera only recording 12 hours/day. The other 12 hours is set to capture only targeted motion. For us, this works perfectly as one camera complements the FOV of the other (roughly 2 sides of our property. Lastly, being fairly new to the wide world of security monitoring, I wasn’t quite ready to go down the rabbit hole of full NVR with 8 cameras and more. So, this little scalable, self-contained, system works perfectly for our current needs with the ability to add more bells and whistles if we choose. The HUB unit essentially offers us the benefit of a wireless system without having to deal with the hassle of changing out batteries every once in awhile. Will be curious to test out their promise that most of their other cameras wired or wireless can be added to this little system (up to 8 channels). One suggestion for the manufacturer: add more details to your “What’s in the box” details. What was displayed when I purchased left a bit to be desired, and likely causes shoppers to keep looking.

The E1 outdoor camera is an excellent buy. I wanted to set something up to monitor my driveway and entryway. Some of the things I was looking for were: Local storage without a subscription. The camera can take a 256GB micro SD card and holds recordings for days and days. I have been using for a week and it's not even half full. You can go back to specific days and check the events by watching or downloading. Once the card is full it overwrites. What's nice is, because of the smart detection. I can filter out videos based on if it's a motion, vehicle, person, or animal event. Constant power. I didn't want battery. This comes with its own power supply and a long extension cord. The extension cord is about 14 feet long with a few extra feet of cord on the power supply. Wifi and Network capability. The Wifi connection is good. Able to connect on a 2.4ghz or 5ghz band. It also has an ethernet adapter. Also has the ability to connect with Alexa via a skills app. The Reolink app for alexa works great. I can ask Alexa to show me the camera on my Echo Show or Fire Tablet and it pulls it up with no problem Setup was really simple. I connected it to my network via ethernet for the initial setup. Installed the app on my phone and went through the process. One thing I will stress. **UPDATE THE FIRMWARE** Not the app update. Go to the website and follow the instructions on how to download the latest firmware and how to update it. This solved some initial issues that I was having. The Reolink phone app is great. Lots of different options to fiddle with. For example. Being able to setup non-detection zones (in my case blocking out the road so passing traffic doesn't trigger a recording), Night vision, motion tracking, color/black and white options, smart detection.... These are things that are fun to mess around with and decide what is right for you. Overall the app is very easy to use. There are other things as well. Setting up a PC client, Accessing from a browser, using an FTP server, Remote monitoring, and the use of an NVR system. And... the picture quality is great. Overall I am extremely happy with this purchase.

This is an excellent camera with generally good controls. It connects to wifi readily, and can be controlled via phone, tablet or computer. Image quality is really good (day or night). My only complaints is non-recyclable packing material. There is way too much non-recyclable plastic, and this can be remedied (this is actually the real reason I gave it other than a perfect rating). I am amazed at the tech support that Realink has: in my initial review I complained about the focus control (it was mouse click controlled), and Realink issued an update on May 12, 2022 that fixed that to a slider! Very, very impressive and responsive. This is a great camera and well worth the cost! We are using it to monitor the progress of an owl family in our tree (and to help us know when the ravens are attacking so we can run them off). As I update this we are experiencing some pretty significant winter weather, in snow country. I suspect the camera has picked up some freezing fog or snow, because it's almost non-responsive to the movement control. In spring maybe I'll encase it in plexiglass, but for now I suspect this is how winter will progress. Other than that, it's a really great camera! We love being able to listen to the wildlife outside in the winter when the last thing we want to do is open a window! Strongly recommend this device.

I have several Reolink wifi cameras and they were very easy to setup and manage. You need a power point and Wifi network and the rest is easy. Great visibility in the daytime and night time visibility is good with the infrared lights. I can access and manage the cams from my phone, tablet or PC, through the free Reolink app. Very user friendly. You can backup to microSD cards or onto Reolink has an online cloud service at a marginal cost.

Wi-Fi接続で電源さえ確保できれば設置できるので導入が楽です。 このカメラの強みはPTZ（首振り）機能で、固定式では死角になる場所もアプリ操作で見渡せます。 自動追尾機能は、動きの速い対象だとたまに追いつけないこともありますが、人物検知の精度は悪くなく、防犯上の威嚇効果は十分あると感じます。 また、夜間のカラー撮影機能が優秀で、薄暗い場所でもかなり鮮明に映ります。 機能と価格のバランスが良い一台です。

Product was easy to install and set up on my phone, however, after several attempts and numerous techs, Reolink support could not help me to get the hub, and cameras to work on my phone and computer via Reolink client. I would recommend Reolink products and will probably purchase more cameras for my security needs, that I will be able to monitor on my phone.

REOLINK 4K Outdoor Security Camera, PTZ Camera for Home Security, Wi-Fi 6 New Technology, Motion Tracking Person/Vehicle/Pet Detection, 3X Optical Zoom, Motion Spotlight, Local Storage, E1 Outdoor Pro So just a preface this review.. around my property I have many types of Wi-Fi based security cameras. Google , wyze, blink, and now a couple of these Reolink cameras. When blink first came out, they were absolutely groundbreaking because they were so cheap and they had relatively decent functionality, but it quickly faded because the Wi-Fi connectivity was extremely poor and only supported two gigahertz. It became super unreliable and kept missing footage. I then bought a few Google cameras thinking the expensive stuff works better.... Boy was I wrong. I then added wyze cams are on my property in specific areas and although they work fairly well, I was still a little bit disappointed with the reliability of capturing footage. The biggest Achilles heel for all of these models were the fact that it did had a really poor Wi-Fi connectivity.... They all generally only support 2 GHz. Some models for wyze and my newer gen Google cams claim 5ghz support , but they NEVERRRR connect over 5ghz. 2ghz is extremely congested around my hood and made every single camera very unreliable. I started using Reolink products starting with the doorbell. I was so shockingly amazed at how reliable it was. I decided to try a couple of these cameras to replace Google cameras. In the exact same spots, 50ft away from my house in the back yard, these Reolink cameras performed almost perfect. They are so reliable, that I can access the camera with my phone at any time no matter what. There was never any drop-in connection during my trial period of testing . These cameras actually do support 5ghz. Not just on paper but in reality. For this reason Reolink Wi-Fi security cameras are simply hands down Superior to any of the previous product I've used around my property. Connection reliability is the number one reason I'm about to scrap all of my security cameras and purchase these instead. Even if Reolink were to have lower specs of video quality (which it doesn't) than any of the previous cameras I have used, I would still use reolink simply because it actually works, it records, it tracks, it does what you need it to do without interruption. Owning tons of cameras around my property The number one frustration is something happens and cameras didn't even capture it. Then what's the point of these cameras if they're so unreliable?? Having said that, I hope this is enough to convince folks to start switching out and use reolink instead. I'm not paid to say that... It's just the truth. In terms of video quality, it is absolutely on par with with my 2k wyze cams and can any any google cam ont he market and let me just say I have all generations of Google cameras. Images are sharp and you can make out license, plates and details. Night vision is fantastic as well. You do have the option at night to also activate a spotlight if you want... But night vision is sufficient and a kind of like the stealthier non-spotlight mode. Footage is captured in an SD card. You can access the SD card footage via the cloud and on your phone app. The accessibility to the SD card video is absolutely fantastic and reliable. Again, this is because the Wi-Fi connectivity is superb and Superior to any other cameras I've used. Often cameras with SD SD card footage is extremely frustrating to access via the cloud... Very slow and sometimes simply doesn't work. But with Reolink camera , its lightning fast. And reliable. If you want to pay for subscription, you get the benefit of storing footage into the cloud so that your footage is safe even if the camera is knocked out. It's a nice option but so far I didn't subscribe. I think if they had an annual subscription for unlimited amount of cameras, I might consider. I just want to take a moment to talk about the settings because the settings are absolutely flexible and have configurations that most camera systems do not offer. My favorite setting is the exposure and Shadow adjustment. You can adjust manually the exposure and Shadow sliders so that in your space it's not overexposed, or you can bump up the shadows to get a little more detail in the darker areas. If you keep it Auto exposure, there's a slider. Adjust the exposure compensation. I don't know of any camera system that offers this level of adjustment. Another setting that I really appreciate is the thresholds sliders that allow you to adjust when night vision turns on. If you find that in your space night vision turns on too early, then you can adjust it such that the threshold is higher. Once again, I don't think there are any cameras on the market that allow you to do this. Another setting I really like is the ptz "return" where you can set your baseline cam position. You can set the time in which it returns back to the base position after it had wandered off tracking objects. This may seem fairly standard for ptz cams, but on cameras that I have , namely wyzecam ptz models, this basic functionality often doesn't work reliably... I often find the camera drifts and doesn't repeatedly come back which was very frustrating. But: Reolink ptz is smooth and repeatable. . Since this is a pan tilt zoom security camera, I'll talk a little bit about that. In the camera settings you can configure a few presets where you want the camera to go to on demand. This is good if you have specific areas you just want to see quickly. Once again it's repeatable and reliable. Once you set the base position, you are able to use ptz settings so that you can configure the tracking settings. The camera is able to track objects like animals, cars and people, which is pretty much everything you want to surveil. I was pleasantly surprised how reliable it tracks objects. The camera pans and tilts smoothly. I really appreciate the fact that you can configure this tracking in two ways: if the object it was tracking stops moving it will return back to base position. You can configure the duration of time in which it will wait for no movement. You can also configure the time in which it lost the object and reverts back to base position... This is kind of a way to say it's going to keep scanning for that object even if it didn't find it anymore.... This is kind of useful if objects appear in and out of frame range and you want it to keep tracking it for some duration of time that you can figure. It's a pretty clever , no other camera I have used offer. There is the ability to paint a no detection zone to reduce false alarms but I find generally I don't really want to use that because when it pans and tilts, a painted area doesn't make sense anymore. In terms of notification to your phone, it's fast upon detection. I find it gets a bit annoying because you get so many notifications... So you may need to play with the detection sensitivities, or simply just turn it off. I think for me I like notifications but I need to play around a little bit more with all of the different sliders for sensitivity and object size min max etc.... There's quite a few sliders and settings to tinker with so for high traffic areas you do need to spend time on this. For low traffic areas I'm ok with default settings . So I'm fairly convinced I will probably be replacing most of my critical cameras on zones with this camera. But in areas that I don't have power, obviously I have to stick with my solar solutions. I highly recommend you try One camera and just check it out. I'm pretty sure you will be very impressed. I hope this helps

Had it running for 2 years setup both in and outdoors. Experienced disconnections only once which I had to unplug and hard reset, and twice which it came back online automatically. Aside from that, it's functioned flawlessly, the picture quality is fantastic, functionalities are great, app is better than most other Chinese made ones or similar price, and night vision is also amazing. Size is quite significant and weighty, but is likely the reason it's been working properly for years outdoor unlike other products that I've tried which crapped out after a year. All in all, very satisfied and bought a total of 8 so far. Will continue to buy Reolink cameras going forward.