REOLINK Wireless Outdoor Security Camera Lumus 2K, Upgraded 4MP Spotlight Color Night Vision, 2.4/5GHz Dual-Band WiFi Plug in Camera, Smart Person/Vehicle/Animal Detection, Two-Way Talk, Local Storage

Update: Now that we've had it a minute, we're still pleased. It is a little hiccupy on Google home, but we're pretty ok with that. To be fair, it interrupts the music streaming to display the camera anyway, so we haven't done it that way much at all. The notifications are usually prompt on both of our android phones. When there is a delay, I'm pretty sure it has to due with the sleep status of the phone and not with the camera, though that's really just my theory. The picture quality is great. Being able to block sections out of the motion detection has worked nearly perfectly - the angle of the sun does affect some shadows stretching farther than what i have blocked in the morning, but I haven't decided whether to draw over that part, leave it be, or set up times when notifications are off. It's obviously not a big problem or I would have fixed it. So anyway, that's the update. We haven't needed to use the speaker or microphone, but we did test them. Neat things...you have to have the volume on your phone on to be able to hear the person! (Duh, I know. I always have mine turned off, though, so I just didn't think about it at first). Also downloaded the PC version, which was easy to set up and streams perfectly with no hiccups. Very handy while working, since I can pull the camera up that way and not interrupt my streaming music. And the light is very bright, according to my husband, who has to leave super early in the am for work each day. ;)Original review: Snagged this camera on a flash sale, but I had already mostly decided on this brand for good reviews, reasonable pricing, storage options, and Google compatibility. Before installing it, I plugged it in and set it up to make sure everything would work. No need to drill holes in the house until you verify it's not DOA! Setup if the camera and app was super easy, though there wasn't really anything in the instructions about it. The hard part was belly crawling through our super tiny attic multiple times to map, plan, and fish wires. The plug doesn't appear outdoor rated, but it didn't make sense to us to plug it in outside, anyway. I mean, then someone could just unplug it, duh. So in the teeny tiny attic I went. After several trips and most of the afternoon, we finally got the wires where we wanted. Since I had already set it up to test, all that was left was to mount the camera, plug it in, take a ton of tylenol, have some beer, and wait until the next day to aim it. As far as mounting, it's a nice and easy base, and they even include a little paper template to drill the holes for anchors. The night picture is before going back out to aim the camera, but you get the idea. The field of view is great. The motion detection is adjustable. Neat feature in there, too- you can mark off areas where you don't want it to detect motion. I've marked off the top right corner where it's still picking up the edge of the road and the paw print dangling toward the top left. Turned the motion detection down a few times to eliminate notifications for shadows, etc. Less than a day in and I think I've just about got it fine tuned to pick up a car in the driveway or a person walking up to the house, but to ignore headlights passing, leaves moving, etc. Picture quality seems great to me. I haven't viewed it on the TV yet, but it's more than enough resolution on a phone or Google hub display. I've played with saving pictures and videos. I've seen plenty of screenshots taken from a variety of other camera which were grainy, poorly lit, etc, and you wouldn't be able to identify anyone. These are much more clear than most I've seen, in case we were to need to ID a person or anything. Also, motion push notifications are prompt. The spotlight is plenty bright enough. The night vision is clear, both in grayscale and when it automatically switches to color. Pleased with all aspects.

Good image quality. Integrates with nvr easily. Alarm triggers are more accurate as it uses both pir and video motion. I like that the power cord is long.I would have love it if they included an antenna for more range connectivity as its an outdoor camera.

Great value 2K wifi camera with ONVIF/RTSP support. I have bought this along with Reolink 4 camers NVR and 2 Outdoor E1 Pro camera to install a security camera system for my home. It fits wil into the system and able to connect this camera as other Outdoor E1 Pro. However, this camera Wifi range was little problematic while doing the installation.When wrote the above review, customer support reached out to me on this. They showed good sprit to resolve the my concerns. They have asked me if I wanted a replacement? I said no it and i don't want to remove the installed camera at this point. So they volunteered to do a partial refund ($10) as I'm keeping the camera at its current state. I agreed to it.

Great small cam. Works well and vert clear picture with a light that comes on in dark on motion if needed, which is a hand feature in your garage after dark. Fair price and quality cam.

Ordered this camera and a large SD card for local storage plus 7 day free cloud recording as backup. Installed it over the driveway so it only needs to record a few events a day. Captures motion just fine, video quality is great, and has plenty of space to record everything. App works as intended; so far all is good, right? Sounds like a 5 star camera and service, doesn’t it. Keep reading and you’ll understand why you’ll despise this, but not until after the return window closes. The biggest selling feature that I liked for this camera is that it has 7 days of cloud recording for free. It’s a differentiator as other vendors don’t have this. Because I installed an SD card in it, the only reason I’d need the cloud recording is if the camera gets stolen or destroyed by someone, where I can capture that event and not lose it (because the SD card is in the physical camera and not in an external box like my old Sansung camera this replaced). Installed it and activate it and all was fine. I was pleasantly as to how well it worked. Please note that this has a 30 day return window with Amazon before you are stuck with it….but if it works, why would one want to return it? So far so good. But here’s why. I installed it and activates the cloud recording. Security cameras for most folks are are usually set them and forget them. You DON’T want to have to mess with the camera or the app again unless there is an event you care about and need to check on. And hopefully that is never. However before the 30 day window closed after installing, I start getting receiving annoying emails that my BASIC cloud plan will expire soon and that I have to login select a new plan. What? Why? I don’t want to have to login and change anything, so I figured after it “expired” it would auto renew. Nope! The 30 day window after I activated the Basic 7 Day cloud plan (note I also have an SD card) the Basic Plan expired and stopped working. And it did NOT auto renew. Cloud recording is now dead unless I take the action to login and manually renew for a term of 30 days. This happens 1 day after my return window closed. So then I have to login to the app (something I wanted to avoid like the plague) to reselect the same Basic plan which will expire again in 30 days requiring me to login again in 30 days to reselect it. Why Reolink? You had a win here with a device and service that differentiated from the competition, so I thought I’d give it a try. And they messed up the concept of subscription. People don’t want to have to login every 30 days to subscribe manually to another 30 day service. Have it set as indefinite or auto renew (you already have a max storage and max 7 day recording period defined…why are you unsubscribing and expiring the service after 30 days). And of course you won’t find this out until 1 day after your return window closes. This device has 5 star potential which drops to 1 star after 30 days. This turns from “what a great camera and service” to “what a disappointment” after 30 days of ownership. Yes I went in and renewed it manually after being constantly nagged and after it expired and stopped, but nobody want to have to repeat these steps manually every month for something that one should be able to simply install, setup, and touch only when needed. See pic of the app that expires and requires manual renewals every 30 days. What a disappointment.