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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. --Albert
Einstein
On Monday, October 14th, 2024 at 6:19 PM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:19:24 +0000
> King Beowulf [email protected] wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 6:54 AM, Michael Ewan
> > <[[email protected]](mailto:On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 6:54 AM, Michael
> > Ewan <<a href=)> wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking for a cheap wireless camera, but not one that sends anything
> > > at all to an upstream provider, just something with motion detect that I
> > > can capture video to a local server.
> >
> > I’ve had pretty good luck with a pair of Reolink RLC-520A PoE outdoor
> > cameras. they have both a low and a high resolution video streams. They
> > have various features built in that I don’t use. I just capture with ffmpeg
> > or you can use Zoneminder etc.
>
>
> lol. I came here to warn you to avoid reolink.
>
> Right out of the box it would hang when attempting to continuously stream
> over wifi.
>
> Updated firmware after back and forth with support (credit to them for having
> tech support that actually answered) and then it would hang after about 6
> hours.
>
> replaced it with an amcrest which has worked really well.
>
>
> Brian
Weird, never had any issues.
The 2 PoE Reolinks have been running for over a year, and the wifi Reolink E1
Pro (indoor) almost as long (only rebooted when the cat played with the power
cord).
Other than the initial f/w update about 1 yr or so ago when I set them up,
never an issue and never complained about not being able to "dial home".
-Ed
