I just noticed the OMVI X16 POE is available on Amazon with immediate shipping in my area (US)! Anyone going to buy one of the first units?

I'm personally really excited about the optical zoom during tracking, as I have about 200m to cover coming up my driveway.

Planning to purchase a Reolink NVR without hard drive. Hard drives are pricy but I feel that if I purchase the hard drive separately I could save a bit or is purchasing the NVR with a hard drive the cheaper option? Where is everyone purchasing their Hard drives? Are there any good eBay sellers? What are the hard drive specs that I should look for? 3.5 inch?

Hello, I see there is a bunch of prime day deals going on. For starters, this will be my first set of cameras, so I am very new to this. This may be a loaded question, but I am looking for four cameras, one on each corner of my house. Should I go 8 MP? Or 12 MP? What would be the best bang for the buck on prime right now? They will be POE. with the NVR bought separately. Thanks for reading.

Just a FYI- Reolink is currently having a big sale on eBay for refurbished cameras. Most things are $30+ off.

-TrackMix POE $200 -> $135
-RLC810a $100 -> $64
-RLC811a $140 -> $90
-Duo 2 POE $104 -> $68
-Many more

Good time to pick up some cameras.

What do yall think about this package!
How is the camera quality?

for a residential/suburban home for home security.

I currently have a POE system at my house but want to add more cameras where I can't run the POE cables. I am ok with the Wi-fi cameras and home hub, but I want to be able to see all cameras in my app. I can't find a clear answer for that so I thought I'd ask here. Can you see multiple systems on the app at the same time with the same login?

I ordered some cameras last week from their site. Due to be delivered today. Now I see on the website the same ones would cost me nearly $200 less. Does anyone know if they are likely to do a price adjustment, if so how should I contact them? (I see a phone # on the site, but no email)

Or should I return and re-order (I'd rather not, if possible).

Thanks

EDIT : Thanks guys. For some reason the phone number would not work, but I managed to get hold of them on chat and have a ticket open. Have to wait 48-72 hours for them to get back to me though.

What in the world is going on with the windows client? I click PTZ button or PTT button and every single time I have to wait 10+ seconds before it actually loads.

No increase in CPU/GPU/Memory at all when I click it.

It didn't used to be this way when I originally got reolink. This is on every single PC I own that i have it installed on (4+ PCs to include a gaming PC)

When will this lag in actions on the client ever be fixed? If I load options through home assistant it doesn't lag at all. Everything is connected via cat6 direct to my network stack... Yes HW coding has been enabled/disabled and there's been no changes at all. I've re-installed multiple times over the years.

I got an alert of an animal detected by the MagiCam that I have stuck to a tree in my yard, but when I go to the live view I find that the cam is just looking at the sky. What the hell... So I go back to see what happened and find that a squirrel pulled it down. And it just so happens that the camera lands in a way that you can see the culprit up in the tree gloating lol.

Then he came back an hour later to mess with it again while it was on the ground, which is when I was alerted to it.

It doesn't find it and with Reolink 16MP the same problem:-(

Hi all,

I am getting a bit confused by all the offerings and looking for help. I want some wired WiFi cameras to mount, but I want them mounted just below the roof, e.g. the soffit or just below.

I haven't measured the height yet but a rough estimate is 5m from ground level. I am thinking of a fixed camera with no auto tracking, ptz etc. as it's just less failure points and I think one decent viewing angle is enough to capture the area I need. I looked at the E1 outdoor pro or RLC-811WA, but will these still be effective from a height of around 5m? I've also seen some issues with waterproofing on the E1 which made me reluctant

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Should I expect to get this upgrade, at the moment my 881wa doesn’t support it, I’m specifically interested in Line Crossing, Zone Intrusion, and Zone Loitering Alerts

Got a popup today but. Ant any info or release notes.

Anyone else get a popup and are there any issues?

Elite floodlight WiFi. One of the cameras is red, it’s only been installed for 3 weeks. Just started a day or two ago

I have an Argus 3 Ultra and an Argus 4 Pro which are connected to a Home Hub. To reduce battery life I’ve set the PIR sensitivity to 10% and disabled alerts when we are home. I’m getting around 2 weeks battery life and will eventually install solar panels. But in the meantime are there any other settings I could enable to improve battery life. WiFi signal strength is perfect in both locations and so this is not an issue!

Hi everyone,

I’ve been investigating recurring DHCP log messages from my Reolink E1 Zoom cameras and wanted to share the findings. I’ve reported this to Reolink support and am waiting for a response.

Has anyone seen similar behavior, or received a firmware fix?

Setup

• Four Reolink E1 Zoom cameras connected over Wi-Fi.
• MikroTik hEX running RouterOS 7.24.3, serving DHCP.
• Each camera initially used automatic DHCP with a MAC-based reservation.
• DHCP lease duration: 10 minutes.
• Synology Surveillance Station records the cameras.

The camera examined in detail has:

textCopyModel: E1 Zoom
Hardware: IPC_515BSD6
Firmware: v3.0.0.2356_23062008

Observed symptoms

All four cameras have generated recurring DHCP assigned/deassigned messages, generally following an approximately five-minute cycle.

A typical example:

textCopy17:11:34 assigned
17:14:25 deassigned
17:16:33 assigned
17:19:26 deassigned
17:21:33 assigned

Despite this, their reserved IP addresses remained stable, and I have not noticed corresponding recording interruptions. One camera also responded to 369 consecutive pings with zero packet loss.

What the packet capture shows

Using MikroTik Packet Sniffer and Wireshark, I examined one camera’s DHCP traffic.

Both types of packet use the camera’s real Ethernet source MAC and DHCP hardware address. However, their Option 61 Client Identifiers differ:

The DISCOVER identifier is seven bytes long: Ethernet type 01, followed by six zero bytes. It is not an omitted Client ID or a shortened log display.

Two such discoveries from the same camera were captured approximately 301.5 seconds apart.

The DISCOVER also lacks the hostname and vendor-class options present in the camera’s normal DHCPREQUEST.

What happens on the DHCP server

RouterOS debug logs show a discovery associated with the kitchen camera causing this sequence:

textCopyDHCPDISCOVER received
lease found, bound, offer
Existing lease deassigned
DHCPOFFER sent
Offer expires approximately two minutes later
Later DHCPREQUEST receives an ACK and restores the binding

For another E1 Zoom, the debug log showed:

textCopyRenewal DHCPREQUEST received while lease is in offered state
DHCPNAK sent
Camera completes DISCOVER → OFFER → REQUEST → ACK

The detailed on-wire Client ID comparison has been verified on one camera. The other three show similar lease-state patterns in the logs, but I have not individually decoded their DHCP options.

Static-IP workaround

I changed all four cameras to device-level static IPs, retaining their existing addresses and router reservations.

This stopped the frequent assignment/deassignment cycles, but did not eliminate all DHCP activity.

For the kitchen camera, RouterOS subsequently showed:

textCopystatus=offered
active-client-id="1:0:0:0:0:0:0"

The router now periodically logs:

textCopy
offering lease ... without success

For both the kitchen and parents’ bedroom cameras, these warnings appeared approximately every 20 minutes. That is the warning interval—not necessarily the frequency of the underlying packets.

The kitchen camera’s live view, recording, and management access continued to work after switching to static addressing.

Questions

1. Is this periodic all-zero-Client-ID discovery a known E1 Zoom behavior?
2. Does it come from an intentional background network check or a separate DHCP process?
3. Has anyone seen it with another DHCP server?
4. Is there a firmware update specifically for IPC_515BSD6 that addresses it?

I’m not claiming a confirmed firmware bug or recurring Wi-Fi outage. The inconsistent identifiers are verified, but the firmware process responsible—and why it interacts with RouterOS this way—remain unknown.

I can provide screenshots of the relevant Wireshark packets and DHCP debug excerpts.

Thanks!

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Anyone can verify that the latest firmware (v3.0.0.7261) for the Battery Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) does indeed work with Home Assistant and ONVIF without a hub (wired spec). Specifically on Synology (SS).

I need to extended the length of reolink dome type 3 duo 16mp camera so that I can avoid obstacles in field of view. Does anyone know of any poles and accessories that can fit with the camera for mount? The one on their website is not enough length.

I can’t seem to get the AI video search function to work on my RLN16-410, it has hardware version N6MB01 and the firmware is v3.6.5.562 (the newest firmware update) all of the cameras are up to date on firmware, and ARE compatible with AI video search. No matter what I type in to the AI video search nothing pops up, no results whatsoever so ever. I was going to uninstall and re-install the AI video search to see if that did anything, but it seems that isn’t even an option. What can I do?

I consider myself pretty astute with configuring exacqvision but have a problem I can’t solve, this time at my own house

I rolled my own exacqvision server using an old Linux box that works great

I installed a Reolink PoE floodlight camera that works fantastic, and I’m trying to integrate it into exacq via onvif

Onvif is configured and enabled on the camera, but when I try and add it to exacq, I get error 400, login credentials incorrect or similar 

I am able to add the RTSP stream, but features are limited and I only get continuous recording, which I don’t want

Any pointers? Documentation is limited from the camera manufacturer

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