5MP PoE Video Doorbell Camera with Chime

Writing a short review from the experience of having used this device for around 6 months. For privacy reasons I will not be showing any photos of the picture quality in this review Chose this as a video doorbell because it did not require any cloud integration to work, record footage, and so forth. Camera is powered over PoE, but can also be powered over doorbell wiring (if you want to for some reason). Because it uses a wired network connection the connection is always stable and not affected by your wireless connection. Not having to replace batteries is also a great benefit. Granted, you must be in a place where you can route an Ethernet cable. The way the mounting hardware works the cable has to come through the wall right behind the doorbell and not from the top or bottom. However, if you are a bit handy or own a 3d-printer you could easily work around it if need be. I created a model on Printables that should allow you to guide the cable from the bottom. Image quality for it’s intended use is great, you can see a lot of detail, field of view easily allows you to see people approaching from the side and night vision also works great. I would say perfectly fit for purpose. The software is not the nicest, the app has a store page for other Reolink products / services. Which mostly seems like an ad to me. It is not always the easiest to navigate and I am unsure about how secure the infrastructure is. It does work well enough, push notifications work. And I have had no major issues with it. The biggest upside on the software side is that the camera can record locally to a Micro-sd card or to a file server on the network (have not tested the later) so no need to pay any additional monthly fees. If you set it to only record on person detection, even a small 64GB Micro-sd card should offer plenty of space. Person detection works quite well too. Included chime also works alright does what it should, has a few tunes to choose from, and it should integrate with other chimes too, but I have not tested that. Nor have I tested the home-assistant integration. Overall I would say the doorbell is great. Software could use a little polish, but besides that not much more to wish for.

Miałem duże problemy ze sparowaniem dzwonka z kamerą. Support polecił ręczną aktualizację firmware urządzenia NVR co rozwiązało problem. Mimo wszystko nie wiem, czy bez NVR dałoby się to zrobić. W każdym razie byłoby 5/5 gdyby nie początkowe problemy z instalacją EDIT Kamera działa bardzo dobrze ale samnprodukt jest beznadziejny - nie da się sparować kamery z dołączonym dzwonkiem

Very stable and, no issues at all..

Running Home Assistant on a home server and was looking for a doorbell with local recording, no subscription cost and the ability to stream over the network - this doorbell has proved great. My house faces into a busy street, so being able to limit notifications was important. I have it set up using motion masks in the app so that it only notifies me when a person steps onto the area in front of my door (an actual person, not just movement), but not when they're just walking in front of my house. Every time someone enters the zone I've setup, it gives me a notification, as well as a notification if someone presses the doorbell. Previously, I was constantly having to run downstairs and go to the door - now I can just talk to them through the app and if it's someone I recognise (Amazon delivery driver) I can send pre-recorded quick messages which play through the speaker ("please leave the package on the doorstep, thanks"). I have a 128gb SD card in the back of it which records any time anyone is on my property, or presses the doorbell and the app is easy to review any recordings which have been made through the day. The motion detection seems accurate and it doesn't record any false presence. It also hasn't missed anything either. My wife loves the app, its very user friendly and easy to set up and provides real time viewing of the door or sending messages. She can also watch clips from any of the events which were recorded on the SD card. On a more technical note, I also have it streaming directly to my server which is running Home Assistant and Frigate. The feed was easy to setup, running a 2560x1920 30fps stream at excellent quality which is currently recording 24/7 onto my server, as well as a substream that's 640x480 and 15fps (frame rate configureable) which takes up barely any bandwidth and is used for previews and frigate AI detection. I'm using the RTSP feeds, which are working perfectly, but know its also possible to use http flv feeds if required. For Home Assistant, you can either integrate via the Frigate integration, or directly using the Reolink integration which works very well in itself - was quite impressed with the all of the available options for configuration directly from HA. In terms of setup, the only bit that took time was figuring out how to format an SD card in 128gb size using FAT32, which seemingly you can't do in windows by default (needed to download some special software), but other than that just plug it into a PoE network switch and it was dead easy and basically everything worked out the box. Would recommend and probably going to buy more Reolink cameras after this.

Nach langem suchen hab ich endlich die richtige Türkamera gefunden. Die Kamera bietet Lokale Datenspeicherung auf microSD, FTP und NAS, natürlich auch in die kostenpflichtige Cloud (wenn man das will). Installation: Da die Kamera keinen Akku hat ist der Installationsaufwand höher als bei der Konkurrenz mit Akku, aber dafür entfällt auch die Wartung durch lästiges aufladen 1x Monat (wer jetzt behauptet die akkus der anderen Modelle halten 6 Monate hat entweder keine Freunde und bekommt keinen Besuch oder sagt nicht die Wirrheit). Installationsmaterial liegt bei und auch ein kleiner Winkel zum schräg montieren. Das POE Kabel geht nach hinten weg und lässt sich mit etwas fummeln gut einstecken. Einmal Installieren und damit ist die Sache für immer erledigt. Bildqualität: Sowohl schärfe als auch die Farben sind wirklich gut. Der Sichtbereich ist auch super. Aber von der Farbigen Nachtsicht bin ich begeistert. Die Kamera wurde einfach in mein Synology System integriert und dient auch als Überwachungskamera. (2 Fliegen mit einer Klappe) Funktion: Klingeln: die Benachrichtigung erfolgt innerhalb von 1-4 Sekunden recht flott und bisher 100% zuverlässig. Auch ohne Internet erfolgt die Benachrichtigung wenn man im selben WLan ist :) Personenerkennung: Absolut top, man muss Sie einmal etwas anpassen aber dann klappt das perfekt (ohne Fehlerkennungen) Audio/Gegensprechanlage: Die Audioqualität ist gut verständlich jedoch kein High-End Hifi Sound, Das Delay zwischen den Gesprächspartnern liegt bei ca 0,5-1,5 Sek was eine brauchbare Kommunikation ermöglicht. Was mir fehlt ist eine Möglichkeit einen Türöffner zu integrieren, das bieten aber die wenigsten Doorbells an. Fazit: Ich bin sehr zufrieden und werde diese Klingel bedenkenlos weiter empfehlen, (Kabel ist halt immer besser). Nachtrag nach 1,5 Jahren: Leider zeigt sich nach jedem stärkeren Regen 1-2 Tage lang ein leichter Nebel im Bild. Anscheinend dringt Feuchtigkeit in die Linse ein die nach Tagen dann wieder trocknet. Habe dies am 1.09.2025 dem Reolink Support gemeldet und ein Ticket eröffnet. Ich habe dem Support das Problem geschildert und ein Foto hocgeladen. am 4.9.2025 hatte ich einen neue Doorbell im Briefkasten! --- WOW So muss support sein, schnell und unkompliziert.