China
Local storage, FTP, and no subscription anywhere in the chain
Reolink appears eight times here, and one property runs through every one of them.
Every Reolink camera in this catalogue records to a microSD card, to a Reolink recorder, or — uniquely in this catalogue — to an FTP server you control. That last option is the only arrangement on this site where taking the camera does not take the footage with it.
Set against the cloud-only cameras in the same hubs, the three-year cost difference generally exceeds the price of the hardware.
The TrackMix uses two lenses — one wide, one telephoto — so that zooming in on a person does not lose the scene around them. That is the oldest problem with tracking cameras, and it is the only product here that solves it rather than trading one for the other.
The battery doorbells use a 1:1 square sensor rather than a widescreen one, which shows a caller head to toe with the parcel at their feet. It looks odd on a phone and it shows the thing you bought a doorbell to see.
Dual-band Wi-Fi is present on some models and not others, and the wired kits are compatible with Reolink cameras only. Both are stated; neither is on the front of the box.
5MP · dual-band 2.4/5 GHz · 30 m IR · microSD to 512 GB, NVR or FTP · IP66
A fixed 5 MP bullet camera rather than a pan-and-tilt, and the only camera in this hub that will record to an FTP server or a Reolink NVR as well as to a card. Reolink states dual-band Wi-Fi, person, vehicle and animal detection, and 30 m night vision.
Best for: Someone who wants a fixed camera pointed at one thing permanently, recorded somewhere other than the camera itself.
≈ 70 €
