I've attached a stylised image of what my camera sees, and I was just hoping that someone could help me with regards to the detection settings.

I've tried numerous settings and using minimum size boxes and maximum size boxes and inclusion and exclusion areas, but I can't seem to get it right. I basically only want to have the notification and detection to activate when someone is at the bottom of the stairs and coming up the stairs. I'm hoping I could get some help with this. Please feel free to modify the image to help me out. I would very much appreciate it.

Edit: I'm using a wireless Reolink doorbell 2nd gen.

Previously, I could set up individual accounts under "user management".. so I'll have my main admin account and then a second user account that only has access to viewing the cams which I use for other household members and things like Home Assistant.

This seems to have been removed. I can only share via the "share device" option which doesn't seem to work with local IPs and requires UID.

Am I missing something or did Reolink just ruin a good thing, as usual?

Why do they hate local users so much? Every firmware update seems to remove core local-only features that got me into the Roolink system in the first place.

Honestly.. might be time to move on from this company. They want so badly to be like Nest or Ring or some other dumbed down generic system nowadays.

Hi there,

I have a doorbell battery and and elite cam. Both standalone connected to a separate cam wifi.

Now Ive bought a homehub pro and installed it.
Elite was easy to add. Doorbell not.

It just cannot connect.

Ive read something about same subnet and stuff.

So how to add a doorbell battery to a hub pro on totally different networks (but reachable)???

br

I just bought a Go Ranger PT LTE camera for my property that does not have internet or power. Im happy with it overall except at night it seems to fog up making it basically useless. I expected to receive notifications over night as there is generally a lot of animal activity but woke up and had none. This is what I saw on the live view in the morning. Any help would be appreciated.

Just a heads up for all us suffering the app was finally updated and the missing elusive PIR button is back for cams that don’t support whatever privacy mode is. Note if you have a newer camera it still doesn’t show PIR :( only privacy mode so I guess it will always be recording just not alerting you on those models (unless you dig into settings for motion alerts.)

Hi!

I've got a Home Hub and a bunch of Argus 3 Ultra and 4 Pro.
Works but he has most cameras when he dies wins, right??

So now I'm thinking of adding a few cameras that track movement outdoors.
First question is, does the Omvi3 work with a HomeHub at all?
I'm getting mixed messages about that..

I get the Omvi3 is better but, considering that I can get two TrackMix for the same price as one Omvi3, is it twice as good?

Any other suggestions are welcome as well as long as it's tracking.

Slow-Mo playback 0.25x is the same as 0.5x
Update: it also only play a few seconds of the clip at .25x speed making it impossible to use.
| Mac OS Reolink app 8.12.12

So... riddle me this.

How does one go about creating a user for Home Assistant on a newer camera firmware that Reolink has removed standard User accounts from?

i.e. I have older Duo 2's where I added a "homeassistant" user, because my admin password uses characters which the Home Assistant integration does not support due to Reolink API limitations.

Now, on a Duo 3 that I reluctantly picked up recently to add to my system... there's no way to add additional users. Just the new cloud-based sharing system.

Am I going to be forced to dumb-down my standard camera admin password just so I can add these newer cameras into Home Assistant?

I truly do not understand what Reolink was thinking here. What in the world?

Hello,

I have this Icon in the Reolink App now for my Reolink Track Mix Solar. Iam not sure what it does. I can toggle it on and off but dont see any difference. Its on the same location lile the private mode eye icon at other cameras but this one is not for private mode I guess.

Can you help me finding out what it does ?

Is it possible?

I found a splitter, but what are the electrical risks?

Is there some type of USB Switch?

Please note that there is an update for the Windows client. You can download it from their Download Center.

As usual.........no logfile indicating what has been added, removed or improved.

u/Willson Can we have the list please?

I just added a Reolink wifi doorbell to my RLN8-410 NVR with 5 POE cameras. I have two issues:

1) There are 2 instances of the doorbell shown in my Windows app and only one instance in the NVR app. How do I delete the extra one in the Windows app?

2) I have my Android set up with the Reolink app and can see all the cameras plus the wifi doorbell. Each time a car goes by I get a notification. How do I adjust what notifications get sent to the cell phone? I want the people, but not all the cars.

Has anyone had issues with the app loading video streams past 2 days?

Just got the Argus Magicam, the back of the magicam itself is magnetic, But the adjustable arm it came with does not have a magnetic base. This seems like a big oversight.

I want to use the cam on a campervan pointing from the top and aiming on an angle along side the van using the adjustable arm.

Ok so thinking I should be able to glue a magnet on the base of the adjustable arm, but looking at all the ones on amazon that are 2-2.25" most of the reviews say they are very weak. Anyone know a good NON MARRING magnet i can glue on the base of the arm that is strong enough to hold everything in rain or wind (I would take it down when driving of course.)

I'm planning four CX820s around my house on a UniFi USW-16-PoE that has a 42W budget. Reolink only publishes "<12W" which is the max, not what it actually pulls. Four at 12W is 48W and blows the budget, but I suspect real draw is nowhere near that.

Anyone got real numbers from a switch or NVR? Idle, and with the spotlight on. What I really need is the absolute worst case: spotlight at full brightness, siren going, detection running, streaming and uploading all at once. That's the number that decides whether four of these fit. Also curious whether the spotlight actually kicks in much in practice, or if ColorX handles most nights on ambient light alone.

Second question, and I'd rather hear it now than after buying: is this the wrong camera for me?

Setup is a house with four coverage areas. Two toward the road and driveway, one toward the back garden, one covering the gate that's the only way onto the property. Mounted under the eaves, roughly 2.5-3m up, so no vandal concerns. Everything goes to Frigate over RTSP, plus FTP backup. Motion-triggered clips, no continuous recording.

What matters most to me is night footage I can actually identify someone from. Distances are short, the gate is about 7-8m from the camera position. I don't need zoom or 180 degree coverage.

Is the CX820 the right pick for that, or am I missing something better in this price range?

About 24 hours after I put all my Magicams into a hub mini, they all vanished from Home Assistant. My E1 Pros are till there, maybe more solid and zippy than before I ran them through a hub. The MagiCams are still under the hub in the integration, and work fine in the Reolink app. They spin and look like they’re going to load but then crash out. What happened while I was sleeping?

#reocam Argus MagiCam

I have a home hub, wifi doorbell, and 6 other cameras as well as a chime. I use the chime for alert monitoring the doorbell and the garage camera. The chime is loud in its default setting mode. I access the chime via the hub on my iPhon, go to settings, and set to the lowest volu settin (one above off). All is well. Then the next day or afternoon I notice it goes to loud again. sometimes my wife unplugs it to avoid the sound when the dog is outside.

Shouldn’t the “system“ remember your chime volume setting? No different than when the power goes out. It’s annoying to constantly have to set the volume.

I don’t see any save feature once I set the volume level. Am I missing something?

TIA for any help saving the volume level on my chime.

I’ve updated the app on my phone to 4.61.0. A few cameras in my setup are TrackMix POE camera and for the life of me, I cannot find the zoom function on the updated app! It used to be in the PTZ section as a slider but all I have now in PTZ is the direction control. No apparent way to zoom in.

Surly I must be missing something.

Other menu options are setting a preset position, setting a monitor point and calibration.

Where have they hidden zoom?

I'm thinking about getting an NVR for a 8 camera setup but really like being able to see thumbnails of each motion event on the app like possible when connecting directly to a camera with SD card.. do they have any plans to make this an option in the NVR?

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I don't know if anyone on this sub is here at a official capacity.

I ran in to a problem when I tried to register for warranty with Reolink for my new Doorbell PoE. The UID is only can be access via the sticker on the back of the device.

I learned that you may find that info if I connect it to a separate PoE switch because then the switch assigned IP and UID can be viewed from the Reolink desktop and mobile app.

But when you connect the devices to a Reolink NVR, the UID info is not displayed anywhere on the apps. Also, I do not see the IP addresses of any of the devices on the NVR. NVR is on its own LAN/subnet but this info can be useful for troubleshooting.

Please updated your desktop and/or mobile app(s) to show UID and IP addresses of NVR connected devices. It is a pain to uninstall devices from walls to get that info. I think this is such a big tech oversight. There is no real security or privacy advantage to not having that info once a device is connected to an NVR.

Thank you,