To expand on a previous poster asking about local only devices in general…

Has anyone found a reliable local only doorbell? I’ve been meaning to replace my Ring doorbell ever since Amazon bought them. I finally bought a Reolink WiFi doorbell and it looks great and was really easy to set up without Internet or their app, BUT…

It doesn’t work. Capture to FTP gives me nice clear images but the videos are corrupt, maybe truncated. I can’t even open them with VLC.

I tried installing an SD card and then moving the SD card to my laptop. The videos on there play for a few seconds and then freeze.

Reolink support hasn’t responded to any of my questions, which is another minus for them.

I did notice that the unit seems to run very hot. Did I just get a dud?

So are there any alternatives? Should I just try buying another of these? At least returns (Amazon, Walmart) are easy.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have the unifi protect stuff, I’ve been pretty happy, support has been okay at best. I host everything myself but I do think they use some of the info… there TandC are pretty thick

    • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.ioEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I used Unifi Video for a long time until they moved away from letting me run the NVR on my own VM/hardware in the Uniti Protect world.

  • InAmberClad@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using the Reolink Doorbell (POE) for the last few months. I use it with both local on board SD card recording and with Frigate. It’s been perfect and the Home Assistant integration is awesome too.

    I haven’t tried the FTP feature but have with my other Reolink cameras and that worked as expected.

    The Reolink subreddit /r/reolinkcam is great, an employee lurks there and is very helpful.

  • returned@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use Reolink Dorbell PoE. I had issues setting it up with Shinobi and AgentDVR but had issues with RTSP streams because it would record for some time and then the recordings would break all the time. Then I realized it works properly with an HTTP link rather than a RTSP stream.

    http://192.168.1.100/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=admin&password=yourpassword

    Though that’s before the firmware upgrades were released. Have you tried upgrading the firmware?