Reolink - Wired Video Doorbell (PoE)

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.

We have a Reolink PoE doorbell and I have it in Home Assistant and Unifi Protect.

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.

If you're already using Reolink I'd give their doorbell cam a try. I've got the PoE version and it works great.

I did the opposite. Replaced my existing doorbell with a Reolink PoE doorbell, and used a relay to simulate an old school doorbell press to ring the chime. Similarly to OP, o don’t have much love for the new digital chimes and wanted to keep my old one.

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

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’.

reolink PoE doorbell

No. It is really simple. You only need an NVR with PoE capability and/or PoE switch. The cameras only need 1 cable (per camera) to be powered up be given internet access, and these very same cables are what you use to do all the connecting between the required hardwire. These cables are cat 5/5e/6 cables. These look like your ethernet cables. You can buy them already assembled if you don't know how to crimp them. You do the connections like this: Router -> NVR or PoE Switch -> Camera. Done. It was that easy. Now your camera is working. Now you would only have to update the firmware of your NVR and Camera to make sure everything works properly. The only things that are plugged into outlets are the NVR or PoE Switch and of course your router. Nothing else needs to be plugged in an outlet. The PoE Switch is optional, only if you want to add microSDs to your cameras and have some sort of back up inside them. Otherwise, the easiest way to power everything is just using the NVR with PoE capability.

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).

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.

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.

Sure. I'd recommend get Reolink doorbell, and then connecting it to their first party NVR solution or something like Frigate or BlueIris.

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

Nah, the PoE ones don't contain a battery.

*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.

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.

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

recently installed the reolink poe doorbell, love it so far

The doorbell actually clips into a mount. The mount is what's bolted to the wall. You can unclip it with a standard SIM tool ejector. At least, that's the case with my POE version.