Reolink 4K Indoor Camera with 3X Optical Zoom, Pet Camera, Baby Monitor, Crying Sound Detection, Privacy Mode, Human/Pet Auto Tracking, 2.4/5GHz WiFi 6 Home Security Camera, 8MP Night vision, E1 Zoom

I've had several brands of IP cam in the past, each one with its own issues such as poor build quality, horrific setup and poor support. I've always managed to get them working but I pitied anyone going through the same experience if they didn't have a background in IT. Now the Reolink E1 Zoom. Must haves for me were good image quality, email and FTP support, and no sneaky tie-in to subscription services. Oh and easy remote access. It ticks all those boxes. I have had to contact support to discuss HTTPS browser niggles but they were responsive and I feel assured if anything more serious needs discussing they are there to help, which is more than can be said for some of the cams I've had in the past where support has been non-existent, even if you use the documented routes. For some reason 1 of my cams put up a small fight during initial setup, but that was sorted with a little perseverance. On top of the features I really needed, other details are handy and easy to configure. I've seen comments about poor picture quality but that's not what I have experienced. There are options to calibrate and focus, as well as image quality settings via browser or app (Windows or iOS) I've not even bothered with night mode and IR as I am getting decent colour images at night in daytime mode. Main use is via internal positioning to monitor car and driveway, and it's all good. I'm now making more use of tracking function and it seems pretty decent too. In terms of design it is a tidy unit, and doesn't even have an ugly Wi-Fi antenna as my previous cams have had, so it's a single cable install for power only. Only disappointment is that unlike other Reolink cams, there is no power extension cable available, and whilst the standard cable is decent length it would be good if they sorted that out. I've not made use of audio functions so can't comment on that, but all in all I am pleased, so much so, that I bought another.

Needed a decent camera to use as our baby monitor which we were watching via our phones and iPad I have tried eight or nine different cameras all of them claiming to be 1080p but in reality nothing like that when you actually set them up. If ever you tried to zoom in instantly you would see the blockiness and couldn’t really see the picture properly. Finally found this one with three times optical zoom and boy does that make a difference the picture without the zoom is a markable improvement on the other cameras we have tried including the ring indoor camera which I expected to be very good but it really wasn’t. With this camera having the added three times optical zoom feature I was really hoping that the picture quality zoomed in would be just as good And it didn’t let me down at all even fully sending the picture is still an amazing 1080p full HD allowing you to even examine your screen digitally picture still looking amazing. The build quality of the camera and the app that you use are both excellent & simple to set up. Certainly won’t be returning this camera as there are no other cameras on the market that do an optical zoom For anything like this price. This really is one amazing bit of kit and at an in believable price

The camera was very easy to set up out of the box, with the app, even if it was extremely loud in shouting out setup instructions, in various languages before I could get logged in and get it to shut up. Don't try and set this up initially near a sleeping baby (or anyone else that is sleeping for that matter). I wanted to set this up with for directly accessing with RTSP streams on Linux/open source tooling and my heart initially sank with reading initial online documents suggesting this was not possible. Luckily it is absolutely possible, but I had to do a lot of manual playing around before I could get it to work. I will have to write a tutorial/blog post on doing this, but I'm sure that even if I do, the APP interface will likely have changed again, rendering my instructions out of date. Just know that at the current time, you can enable HTTP/HTTPS/RTMP/ONVIF, and then you can acccess it through your web browser or ONVIF client. I found that I had to reboot it after having enabled these, for these to become accessible. It is also good to look up the IP address from directly within the app, and use that for your browser. Somehow I was getting it wrong with my nmap scans but that may just be user error. The optical zoom is dead useful, but less than I had thought it would be. I was disappointed that it did not have a traditional thread-screw on the bottom so I could use some of the mounts I have around the house. In the end, I ordered some reolink-specific mounts off of amazon, and will then screw those into some wood to get the desired effect. I find that I need the mounts, in order to be able to tilt the camera down enough. The pan/tilt covers most angles well, but it does not want to face down much, which is exactly what I need for looking down on the baby in his cot. In the meantime, I just put a thin instruction booklet/leaflet under one side of the base to tilt it enough for what I need. Overall a great camera that is "open" enough for what I need. It would be great if it had a base screw to easily mount it, if it was a bit cheaper, and if the optical zoom zoomed in a little more, but you can't have everything.

Absolutely brilliant piece of equipment Day and night modes excellent clarity. Beats doorbell cams any day Use it to watch over my cars from inside.

Accrochée au plafond, la caméra fait parfaitement le job. L’image est de bonne qualité, et surtout, elle se connecte sans souci aux réseaux Wi-Fi 2,4 et 5 GHz. Un vrai plus quand on a une box Free et qu’on ne veut pas diviser son réseau, ce qui m’est déjà arrivé avec d’autres caméras achetées sur Amazon. L’appli est simple à utiliser, une carte micro SD suffit pour le stockage. Petit bémol : j’aurais aimé une option d’enregistrement plus directe, comme un bouton "start/stop" en continu quand je quitte et reviens chez moi. Là, il faut passer par quelques clics de plus, rien de bloquant, mais ça pourrait être plus intuitif. Un léger bruit se fait entendre en zoomant, mais rien de gênant au quotidien.

Great camera! Easy to install and it does the job very well!!!!

Una cámara muy buena. El zoom se agradece. La app es la que más me gusta. En mi opinión, mejor que las Tappo. Funciona perfecta con Home Assistant en local y una cosa que me gusta, a diferencia de la Tappo C320ws, es que cuando conectas a la cam con la app, no se va la conexión desde Home Assistant. La única pega es que la calidad se paga.

Chauffe un peu, sinon facile d'utilisation. accès externe parfait. image excellente.

De camera hangt sinds een week binnenen geeft overdag en 's nachts prima beeld. De camera hangt binnen aan een zijmuur en kijkt de gehele kamer door. De camera wordt snel herkend door surveillance station van mijn QNAP NAS, ook het programma Shinobi op een raspberry PI herkent de camera. Desalniettemnin heb ik er voor gekozen deze QNAP NAS te gebruiken door de FTP functie van de camera te activeren. Ik heb een apart account voor iedere camera aangemaakt met alleen schrijfrechten naar een bepaalde map. Daar worden alle beelden door de camera automatisch naar geupload. Dat werkt goed. Om te voorkomen dat de schijf volloopt, heb ik een verwijder opdracht geprogrammeerd in Qfiling. daarmee worden bestanden ouder dan 3 weken weer gewist en loopt de NAS niet onnodig vol. Voordeel is dat ik ook geen extra camera licenties nodig heb. De App werkt ook prima. Installeren en activeren gaat bijna intuitief. De kwaliteit van de beelden is overdag en 's nachts prima. besturen gaat met een kleine vertraging. Inzoomen werkt ook en geeft meer details. Al met al voldoet deze camera prima aan de verachtingen.