In a word, this Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi surveillance camera is truly impressive. Reolink raises the bar for surveillance systems on multiple levels including image quality, ease and flexibility of use and AI-assisted search of recorded videos.
Reolink’s smart phone app is very easy to use and well designed. It opens to a live stream of the camera’s 180 view. The app is intuitive with icons to trigger the 105dB siren, floodlights, two-way audio, snap a picture or start a recording, talk over its built-in speaker, playback recorded events and access your settings.
They also have free versions of the app available for use on a PC or Mac that are equally easy to use.
The key function that sets Reolink’s app and this Elite 4K Floodlight WiFi surveillance camera apart from competition is the ease you can review recorded videos. Instead of having to wade through potentially hours of video to find what you are looking for Reolink uses AI to do it for you!
When you click on Playback on the phone, it loads the videos by date and then there is an icon that allows you to sort/search by event type. For example, you can choose to see all videos where a person entered the field of view, or a vehicle, or animal or combination of these. When you select one or more of these filters, it then quickly sorts through the videos and brings up only those matching your selection. If you used the settings function to define a specific line or zone in the viewing area, you could also select to see videos where someone has crossed the line or entered the zone. It can even identify and sort when someone is loitering in the viewing area.
When you are looking at saved videos, the app allows you to play the video at normal speed or as slow as ¼ speed or in increments up to 16xs speed. As mentioned, you can at any point snap a picture of what you are viewing, and/or download the current video.
The Reolink apps on PC or Mac are very similar to the smart phone app in functionality and ease of use.
I found this AI assisted search to be excellent and correct most of the time. It really saves so much time and effort searching through recordings to find an event.
This brings me to the quality of the image. Whether you are looking at the live feed or the recorded image, it is outstanding in both day and night versions. The image is sharp, the color excellent during the day and very good at night even with the floodlights set to lower lumen output (I did set the color temperature to 6000K and reduced the lumens to about half power).
The Reolink Elite 4K Floodlight WiFi surveillance camera and its free apps do not disappoint. The high quality180 degree view along with the AI search set this system apart from competition. It is easy to tailor it for your specific needs and is value-priced considering everything it delivers.
Images and short videos can be found at https://tinyurl.com/5dy475d5

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The camera ticks all the boxes for me: WiFi, on-board SD slot for backup (you can set up the camera first, configure video recording and later add the camera to a Home Hub, now you have redundancy), and it is hardwired, which is really nice if you replace an existing floodlight, where you have mains but not PoE already in place.

The camera is meant to be mounted either onto a round distribution box like its common in the US or directly onto the wall. These round junction boxes are not very common in Europe. There also exists a small hole in the bottom of the socket of the camera and I used this to route a standard German outdoor cable with 3 cores (NYY-J 3x1.5) into the camera socket (see picture). But this is a very tight fit and it damages a little of the outer shell of the cable. It would be better if there was a larger, rubber-sealed hole there instead.

A second thing that is annoying is software: You cannot delete videos manually. You either have to format the SD card or wait for it to fill up, which will then rotate the oldest videos. I don't understand why there is no option to manually delete individual recordings.

Still overall a really solid camera, the night vision is really good, detection is okay, FOV is good, floodlight is really bright. At this price point there is no alternative with local redundant storage (you need the Home Hub though for that).

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The video quality is simply incredible! The floodlight is bright, but not so bright that it bothers the neighbors. The installation was a breeze. The only issue is that some settings are missing when going through the NVR, but they can be adjusted if added as a standalone unit as well.

I’ll definitely be buying another one or two of these!

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For our purposes it is the best garden camera. 180 degree field of view and excellent night vision protects our garden very well.

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Very easy to install, great video and playback system. Love it!!

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SO i've been waiting for this camera to release because i wanted to replace my 2 solar WIFI cameras i love. I was very excited, wired it in got it all set-up, 2 days worth of getting sensitivity good and then it snows....i mean didn't they test this camera in rain and snow? all it does is record and send me motion messages through the night cause it sees the snow and sees motion. An option to snooze it for more than 2 hours would be good but even so, i had to make it so flood lights wouldn't turn on every two mins. and silent my phone cause it was just recording motion all night long....what a pain. I turned the sensitivity all the way down, pain to have to reset it back up again when the snow stopped. That is my biggest regret with this camera, the other two older cameras from Reo link never had this issue.

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I installed the camera above my entrance door with purpose of watching over the front garden, walk in path and garage descent. To avoid being tampered with, the camera is installed 50cm above the door. In this position, it is hard to capture the walkway from the street to the door (9m).
Initially I had installed the camera slightly in diagonal to catch more of valuable field of view. But that lead to a lot of false detection. I've now reverted to a more horizontal placement even if that means I hardly see the entrance door itself.
However, there are still a lot of false detection. My black&white cat being seen as a person. Car parked in the garage descent or on the side of the street flickering, resulting in spurious detections.
One annoying feat is that the lights are controlled only by the global image area, not by the detection zones. It means that they react to the maximum extent, not to a subpart of the allowed range.
And some movement are detected in the painted out zone.
So for sure, this is a nice device but some features are missing and the detection has a lot of false positives.

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- Installation sehr einfach
- Erstkonfiguration sehr einfach
- Sehr viele diverse Einstellungen möglich
- Privatsphäreeinstellung sehr gut
- Verschiedene Modi und unterschiedliche Empfindlichkeiten für Erkennen von Personen / Autos / Tiere einstellbar
- Unterschiede Einstellungen für Aufnahme und Alerting am Smartphone möglich und sehr gut

Verbesserungspotential:
- Flutlicht braucht länger zum Einschalten.
- Wenn mehrere Alarme für einen Bereich gilt, dann wird mehrmals via App Alarm geschlagen - gleich hintereinander. Zum Beispiel Personenerkennung und Eindringung werden zwei Mal hintereinander Alarm ausgelöst.

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Why would the lights come on when there is motion ???? It's either on all night or on a timer..also no Apple Home integration

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I like very much this cam, I have many other Reolink Cameras and this one is one of the best I have, even if the other one are very nice too.
I use the PC Windows software and the Android app to manage them.
The only point which I not like : "The PC software do not save the window position on multi screen, very boring because I need to set the Reolink Windows each boot !"

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