REOLINKWireless 2K Battery Video Doorbell Camera, 150°x150° Head-to-Toe View, 2.4/5 GHz WiFi, Battery or Wired Power Options, Two-Way Talk, Person/Vehicle/Package Detection(Chime not Included)

Works great. You kinda miss the first 2-3 seconds of movement, but otherwise it works perfect. Long battery life.

Really impressed with this Reolink doorbell camera so far. It’s one of the best options I’ve found no subscription required, supports SD card storage, delivers clear video, and was easy to install. Most importantly, it connected to my WiFi without any issues. I have no complaints and definitely plan to purchase more Reolink products in the future.

I wanted to like it but I realized quickly that just by being the battery powered version there are lot of compromises. No ONVIF for integrating with other home automation systems. No continuous recording, and the battery constantly goes dead even though I had it hardwired to my doorbell transformer that’s providing 19v even while the doorbell is connected. I had to pull it off the wall several times to charge via USB-C, usually to 80% or so, then reconnect it and it’ll charge the rest of the way itself to 100% and then over the course of days drain back down to 0% again. Every car that passes uses battery even if you have the detection zone set to ignore them. Motion detection also didn’t work very well. It would notice my mailman 50% of the time despite the fact that my mailbox is literally next to the doorbell, and often it would record events once the person is already walking away. Video quality is good however so I’ll give it that.I replaced it with the hardwired non-battery wi-fi version and it seems to be a massive improvement in stability and reliability as well as having some of the more advanced features I wanted.Edit: Reolink contacted me to apologize for my poor experience with the device and offered to give me a $15 refund (in addition to the return) for my trouble. I found that to be a nice gesture. So while this device might not work for everyone's situation, I can at least say that their support is proactive and that this is a good company to do business with.

This is either defective or really buggy. The other issue is that it is really slow to "wake" and start recording. It's very common to have a delivery suddenly appear on my porch since the camera won't start recording until several seconds after there is movement in the view, regardless of how sensitive it is set. This also means it would be really easy to walk up to the porch, take a package and walk off without being recorded at all. Reolink support told me this is normal.The other big problem is the battery. I have this hardwired into a 24V doorbell wire and the battery still drains away. If I try increasing the sensitivity, the camera will go dead overnight. This seems strange to me. If I were engineering this, I would make it so that its battery is only used when power is not supplied.Finally, it has blind spots. Regardless of settings, the edges of the view will not detect movement. For me, this means I can stand in full view of the camera in front of my door, but never be detected and recorded.

I did have some issues with getting a firmware update, but an online support chat with Neolink got my phone to send the update to the video doorbell. The Neolink easily connected to my house ringer without any issues, but I did also install one of the Chime units. Over the last three days of operation our area has been hit by two large rain storms, but my Reolink unit did not set off any false alarms due to trees swaying and heavy rainfall.

Before buying this, I had a Eufy Dual-Camera Battery Doorbell. Decent product held back by the awful Homebase 3 which resulted in frequent disconnections and VERY slow notifications and delayed recordings.This Reolink Battery Doorbell resolves those issues. It detects people at a greater distance than Eufy, records sooner, and sends a notification faster. Unlike Eufy, which will leave you of a useless recording of the person leaving and mostly already out of frame, nearly all of the footage from the Reolink was useful.As long as someone isn't running up and snatching a package quickly, the Reolink should get footage of them. This is something all battery cameras struggle with though so I won't knock Reolink on this.Notifications come quickly enough that people are still on my property when I get it. With the Eufy, they'd already be in their car, down the block by the time I got theirs.Fast notifications are also very beneficial when someone rings the doorbell. With Reolink, the delay from answering the notification to talking to the person outside is seconds. With Eufy, I would get a loading screen for a solid 1-2 minutes before I could even see the person, let alone talk to them. By that time, they were gone.The single fisheye camera can see a lot, but not as much as the Eufy's dual camera setup. But I'd say it covers about 95% of the Eufy and the image is clearer, especially at night. If there was a way to tilt the camera down so I'm not recording my porch light, it'd cover all the area the Eufy did and be perfect.But the biggest issue I have with the Reolink Battery Doorbell is that it doesn't come with a chime. Docked 1 star for a doorbell that doesn't chime out of the box. I opted to add their Home Hub Pro for this purpose and to also use it as an NVR, but that unit has issues behind a VLAN that Reolink doesn't seem to know how to fix. Due to that, I can't set up Home Assistant integrations the way I would like. I'm not about to change my whole network strategy for one brand and especially not one with internet connected cameras.Second issue is no pet detection and the "other" detection you can use as an alternative is all or nothing - you can't set up zones like the other detections so I was getting notified for every leaf that blew across my lawn. Not good. Docked another star.I didn't use it long enough to measure battery life, but I was losing maybe 1% per day once I had sensitivity and detection zones dialed in. That's acceptable for me. Would be nice to have a solar panel option for people without doorbell wiring though.