REOLINK 5MP PoE Security Camera, Outdoor Indoor Surveillance for home, Person/Vehicle/Pet Detection, Time-Lapse, 100ft IR Night Vision, Work with Smart Home, support 256GB SD Card, RLC-510A(Pack of 2)

Cameras are high quality and easy to install

I bought this camera to replace an existing Reolink camera (B400) that stopped working. It was not plug & play connecting to my Reolink NVR. I used the Tech Support from Reolink website and they emailed me back the next day telling me to update the firmware on my NVR. After downloading, saving to thumb drive, and updating the NVR, the camera works great. The camera image does show a Reolink watermark in the video image.....this is something new because my B400 cameras don't have it. Overall, I pleased with the camera quality even though I had to update my NVR firmware to get the camera image to display.

Price point is great and woks well

So far I've been very happy with these cameras and the PC Software.The picture looks good and has a wide view. See actual picture from driveway camera just taken while writing this review.PC software is easy to setup the camera and give it a name and it has lots of options. I like lots of options on how I want to use the camera.I think my only complaint right now is the Android App seems to have a lot of problems and though it looks like their working on it to fix it I haven't wanted to try it as it seems to mess up the camera configuration. Why, I don't know. So when the reviews get better I may try it.You can view the camera through a browser on the phone but not very well with such a small screen though a very nice feature. You're not required to use their app to view the camera.Though not a real complaint the Privacy blocker only allows square or rectangular blocks and only 4 at that so trying to cover up the neighbors yard which is at an angle with the camera is not very easy. See picture upper left corner.I'd rather them use the method like blocking out motion areas for like wind chimes or trees that move in the wind and cause false movement notifications. Or add triangles to the way to block areas of the camera.Only gave 4 stars for motion detection which is good but I think it is picking up shadows as movement too. I might see if I can try and reduce the sensitivity of the motion. Better to delete files than to miss something right.On the camera picture I blocked out the license plates for privacy.Thanks,Jeffery

Worth it

I bought this, actually 3 to replace my old and obsolete Q-SEE system during the Amazon Prime. The Q-SEE cameras had to tie to their NVR as a system. I thought these cameras too and have to tie to the Reolink NVR. I was wrong. I actually replaced my old Q-SEE cameras with these using my existing POE LAN cables. I purchase a simple inexpensive POE switch, also from Amazon. I connected my POE cameras to the POE switch and then to the LAN through a wired access point AP. I downloaded the Reolink mobil app and added my cameras one by one to the app. Right away, the app recognized my cameras. I then setup my cameras to monitor live and recording features of each of the cameras. Of course I needed to install 256 GB micro SD cards which I purchased from Amazon to each of the cameras as well for recording purpose. I had only 3 cameras. If you have more than 4 cameras, you may as well buy the Reolink NVR with 2T harddisk to be more economical. The cameras had a lot of features to set including motion detect region, recording duration, brightness etc.. It can even record audio even though there was no microphone feature.nor siren . However you can set Larpse video setting and capture for the whole day or more. Besides, these cameras are 5MP resolution vs my old ones of 2MP only. I am very pleased with the cameras and I recommend them.

Excelente

I recently purchased a couple of these ReoLink 520 cameras. They have good picture/video quality both day and night. Like all security cameras that have built in IR illumination the range is less than I'd like but does exactly what it says. If you need additional IR illumination at night you can always use aftermarket IR lights where you have dark spots. The FW on the 500 series is a bit different than the 400 series but after a short time playing around with them I was able to get them configure to work as expected. These cameras work well with third party security software like Blue Iris once you enable the needed options in the camera FW.I also recently had some problems updating the FW on the 400 series cameras I already had and ended up having to open a support case with ReoLink. We were able to work out the issues via their email support. It took a few days of back and forth due to time zone differences but the support people were able to figure out the issue and provide a solution that worked. I would give them 5/5 stars for support if that were an option here.