As 1GoodDog tell us Inexpensive good camera. Happy with it. Good daytime quality. Acceptable night time..
Update on the support issue. It appears the problem was not due to a defective camera. Blue Iris works fine when this camera when "reolink RLC-410" is selected. But this camera had been configured in Blue Iris as a generic ONVIF. In that mode, the decode errors lead to video artifacts. When I switched the camera type from generic to reolink, the symptom stopped manifesting.
Thank you very much for the good email support from the vendor.
For Blue Iris users, select MPG4 rather than MPG5 for compatibility with Blue Iris, and choose Reolink RLC-410 as the camera type.
I now have four reolink cameras, three RLC-410-5MP and one RLC-411S. I am happy with all of them.
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I used to be happy with this camera. I own three of the RLC-410-5MP plus one of the prior 4MP models. Two of my 410s work fine. Unfortunately the 3rd one I bought is glitching all the time. About 20 times a day, i get rectangles at the bottom of the picture with vertical line distortion. The vendor is asking me to stare at the camera web page to catch it in the act. ?!?!?!? How can I spend my day staring at a camera web page? That's what NVRs are for. So far I am having trouble resolving this issue. Hopefully they'll come through. Obviously this is a defective unit. (Photo uploaded showing the glitchiness.)
=-=-=- prior review below, from before receiving the 3rd (defective) unit -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
I am quite happy with this camera. I have 3 of them around my house, along with a smattering of GW, Dahua, Hik and other Reolinks. These new reolink 5MP cameras seem fairly good. The pictures are relatively sharp. The camera is capable of a decent bit rate. I am getting typically 2-5Mb/s in the camera's highest resolution at 10fps. I don't use any of the storage or motion activation features of these cameras. I drive them all from Blue Iris on a Core i7 with nVidia graphics. I highly recommend this combination. But NVR aside, as a slave to a really good NVR like Blue Iris, this camera performs very well for the price point compared to other similar units. Looks like Reolink got to market with 5MP a little earlier than much of their competition. (Though I see now there's also an 8MP in the market! Gotta try it for capturing license plates of porch pirates!)
Update on the support issue. It appears the problem was not due to a defective camera. Blue Iris works fine when this camera when "reolink RLC-410" is selected. But this camera had been configured in Blue Iris as a generic ONVIF. In that mode, the decode errors lead to video artifacts. When I switched the camera type from generic to reolink, the symptom stopped manifesting.
Thank you very much for the good email support from the vendor.
For Blue Iris users, select MPG4 rather than MPG5 for compatibility with Blue Iris, and choose Reolink RLC-410 as the camera type.
I now have four reolink cameras, three RLC-410-5MP and one RLC-411S. I am happy with all of them.
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I used to be happy with this camera. I own three of the RLC-410-5MP plus one of the prior 4MP models. Two of my 410s work fine. Unfortunately the 3rd one I bought is glitching all the time. About 20 times a day, i get rectangles at the bottom of the picture with vertical line distortion. The vendor is asking me to stare at the camera web page to catch it in the act. ?!?!?!? How can I spend my day staring at a camera web page? That's what NVRs are for. So far I am having trouble resolving this issue. Hopefully they'll come through. Obviously this is a defective unit. (Photo uploaded showing the glitchiness.)
=-=-=- prior review below, from before receiving the 3rd (defective) unit -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
I am quite happy with this camera. I have 3 of them around my house, along with a smattering of GW, Dahua, Hik and other Reolinks. These new reolink 5MP cameras seem fairly good. The pictures are relatively sharp. The camera is capable of a decent bit rate. I am getting typically 2-5Mb/s in the camera's highest resolution at 10fps. I don't use any of the storage or motion activation features of these cameras. I drive them all from Blue Iris on a Core i7 with nVidia graphics. I highly recommend this combination. But NVR aside, as a slave to a really good NVR like Blue Iris, this camera performs very well for the price point compared to other similar units. Looks like Reolink got to market with 5MP a little earlier than much of their competition. (Though I see now there's also an 8MP in the market! Gotta try it for capturing license plates of porch pirates!)
While Jason W tell us Great picture quality. Easiest install ever!.
I replaced a primary camera and added a new camera to my 12 camera setup, running on Blue Iris NVR software on a big Dell server, monitoring many angles/doors of several buildings on my property. All of these old cameras are/were Dlink 720p bullet-cams that are 6 to 8 years old, which I paid $300 each for back then. I wanted to upgrade to much higher resolution cameras to be able to recognize faces, read license plates at a distance, and other details which are/were impossible with the old 720p cameras.
Skeptical, I only ordered two of these, one is this bullet-cam model, another is the dome model RLC-420-5MP, which appears to have the same guts in a different package.
Very easy to install. I already had PoE ethernet hard-wired to these camera locations (and dozens of others), so it was literally plug-and-play. I changed the IP address from DHCP to hard-coded IP address so my Blue Iris DVR software knows where to find them.
Picture quality was an amazing upgrade from the old Dlink camera, and night vision works great as well, as you can see from the photos. The porch shots are from the dome camera, the driveway/yard shots are the bullet camera. I can't speak to any of the software features since I'm using advanced third-party NVR software, but the video quality is top-notch, and it easily sends 25fps at full resolution of 2560x1920, with many options on max bitrate. It can go as high as 8192kb/s, I have it set to 6144 kb/s and the video is smooth and quality is crystal clear.
I plan to give these cameras a week or two to make sure there are no surprises, then I am replacing the other 12 with these and probably adding a few additional cameras, but early results are these are amazing cameras at any price, but especially for under $100 each. I included a photo (and marked it) of the same angle using the old Dlink 720p camera for comparison, you can see what a massive improvement it is.
I replaced a primary camera and added a new camera to my 12 camera setup, running on Blue Iris NVR software on a big Dell server, monitoring many angles/doors of several buildings on my property. All of these old cameras are/were Dlink 720p bullet-cams that are 6 to 8 years old, which I paid $300 each for back then. I wanted to upgrade to much higher resolution cameras to be able to recognize faces, read license plates at a distance, and other details which are/were impossible with the old 720p cameras.
Skeptical, I only ordered two of these, one is this bullet-cam model, another is the dome model RLC-420-5MP, which appears to have the same guts in a different package.
Very easy to install. I already had PoE ethernet hard-wired to these camera locations (and dozens of others), so it was literally plug-and-play. I changed the IP address from DHCP to hard-coded IP address so my Blue Iris DVR software knows where to find them.
Picture quality was an amazing upgrade from the old Dlink camera, and night vision works great as well, as you can see from the photos. The porch shots are from the dome camera, the driveway/yard shots are the bullet camera. I can't speak to any of the software features since I'm using advanced third-party NVR software, but the video quality is top-notch, and it easily sends 25fps at full resolution of 2560x1920, with many options on max bitrate. It can go as high as 8192kb/s, I have it set to 6144 kb/s and the video is smooth and quality is crystal clear.
I plan to give these cameras a week or two to make sure there are no surprises, then I am replacing the other 12 with these and probably adding a few additional cameras, but early results are these are amazing cameras at any price, but especially for under $100 each. I included a photo (and marked it) of the same angle using the old Dlink 720p camera for comparison, you can see what a massive improvement it is.
This a word from Bse5798 tell us Great camera for the price.
This is a great little camera. There are still things I am figuring out but after running it for a full 24 hours I like it. I originally bought it to keep a watchful eye over my mailbox after someone knocked it off it's stand but I have come to learn the limitations of a 55$ camera. My mailbox is simply to far away, during the day at highest motion sensitivity the camera will detect people walking in the street. But at night time even at highest motion sensitivity walking in the street does not set off the MD, however all the bugs coming up to check out the infrared lights do. I mounted it on the soffit and I had some problems with the install as a 3/4 inch hole saw as recommended in the install guide did not make a big enough hole. You can get the top part of the water proofing cap through the hole but it then gets stuck on the part that holds the ethernet cord. I took a stanley knife to the plug and cut off enough of the plastic for the plug to fit. I would recommend going up one size and using a 7/8 inch hole saw, which is what I will do if I install another one of these. I've changed the recording now to do motion sensor during the day and normal recording at night time. I'm still not sure I'll catch anyone knocking off my mailbox, I think I'll actually need to upgrade to a model with zoom for that, but I can't fault the camera for that.
I think the windows client app works well once you get the hang of it, it can be a little confusing that there are settings directly for the camera, in the case of an SD card being inserted, and then settings for the windows client app. I have not done any recording onto an SD card so I can't speak to that. The iPhone app works great, simple setup, and when I initially plugged the camera into my POE switch the app detected it right away.
All in all a great camera for what it is.
This is a great little camera. There are still things I am figuring out but after running it for a full 24 hours I like it. I originally bought it to keep a watchful eye over my mailbox after someone knocked it off it's stand but I have come to learn the limitations of a 55$ camera. My mailbox is simply to far away, during the day at highest motion sensitivity the camera will detect people walking in the street. But at night time even at highest motion sensitivity walking in the street does not set off the MD, however all the bugs coming up to check out the infrared lights do. I mounted it on the soffit and I had some problems with the install as a 3/4 inch hole saw as recommended in the install guide did not make a big enough hole. You can get the top part of the water proofing cap through the hole but it then gets stuck on the part that holds the ethernet cord. I took a stanley knife to the plug and cut off enough of the plastic for the plug to fit. I would recommend going up one size and using a 7/8 inch hole saw, which is what I will do if I install another one of these. I've changed the recording now to do motion sensor during the day and normal recording at night time. I'm still not sure I'll catch anyone knocking off my mailbox, I think I'll actually need to upgrade to a model with zoom for that, but I can't fault the camera for that.
I think the windows client app works well once you get the hang of it, it can be a little confusing that there are settings directly for the camera, in the case of an SD card being inserted, and then settings for the windows client app. I have not done any recording onto an SD card so I can't speak to that. The iPhone app works great, simple setup, and when I initially plugged the camera into my POE switch the app detected it right away.
All in all a great camera for what it is.
Another customer Paul D said Great Camera for the Price - Better than expected!.
I have a home setup with a variety of different brand cameras including WansView, Foscam and now this Reolink one. I run NetCam Studio on my home server and have a 16 camera license on it. I had to replace my outdoor Foscam 8905W which after 3 solid years of Michigan weather finally went non-responsive. I really enjoyed the 8905W because it had excellent nightvision and can view objects around 100 ft away from my house in the backyard with ease.
When I started looking for a replacement for this camera I was going between this Reolink model and a 1.3 MP TRENDnet model. My requirements this time around was something that was PoE (because I had already pulled an ethernet cable) and had at least 100ft of night vision capability. Since the Reolink model was supported natively in Netcam Studio I went ahead and took a chance ordering it even though the TRENDnet one had a stated 3 year warranty and had more positive reviews.
I was pleased when the Reolink model arrived and noticed a 2 year warranty when you register the product = bonus. Then I was even more pleased when I downloaded the iOS configuration app and it was seamless to get configured with wizards that make it easy and enough advanced options that a techie tweaker like me make changes. That coupled with being PoE made physical installation the easiest I've had yet. I actually spent more time uninstalling my old camera than I did setting this one up from open of box to configured with my server.
After one night of running it I am EXTREMELY pleased with the wide view angle of this. It blows my old Foscam model out of the water (at a lesser price!) I can view almost my entire backyard from the same mounting location where I could only see a small section previously. Also the image quality and frame rate is fantastic. I actually had to reduce the resolution and bitrate so that my server could keep up with recording. Having audio is an added bonus as well.
Overall now owning 20ish cameras in this price class I can say hands down this is the best camera I own and am considering replacing one of my other outdoor units with this. Would definitely purchase again and suggest any users of NetCam Studio to not waste their time with other cameras in this price range if you're able to hard wire.
I have a home setup with a variety of different brand cameras including WansView, Foscam and now this Reolink one. I run NetCam Studio on my home server and have a 16 camera license on it. I had to replace my outdoor Foscam 8905W which after 3 solid years of Michigan weather finally went non-responsive. I really enjoyed the 8905W because it had excellent nightvision and can view objects around 100 ft away from my house in the backyard with ease.
When I started looking for a replacement for this camera I was going between this Reolink model and a 1.3 MP TRENDnet model. My requirements this time around was something that was PoE (because I had already pulled an ethernet cable) and had at least 100ft of night vision capability. Since the Reolink model was supported natively in Netcam Studio I went ahead and took a chance ordering it even though the TRENDnet one had a stated 3 year warranty and had more positive reviews.
I was pleased when the Reolink model arrived and noticed a 2 year warranty when you register the product = bonus. Then I was even more pleased when I downloaded the iOS configuration app and it was seamless to get configured with wizards that make it easy and enough advanced options that a techie tweaker like me make changes. That coupled with being PoE made physical installation the easiest I've had yet. I actually spent more time uninstalling my old camera than I did setting this one up from open of box to configured with my server.
After one night of running it I am EXTREMELY pleased with the wide view angle of this. It blows my old Foscam model out of the water (at a lesser price!) I can view almost my entire backyard from the same mounting location where I could only see a small section previously. Also the image quality and frame rate is fantastic. I actually had to reduce the resolution and bitrate so that my server could keep up with recording. Having audio is an added bonus as well.
Overall now owning 20ish cameras in this price class I can say hands down this is the best camera I own and am considering replacing one of my other outdoor units with this. Would definitely purchase again and suggest any users of NetCam Studio to not waste their time with other cameras in this price range if you're able to hard wire.
A review Shadowclown say Good picture quality, easy setup.
Nice picture, easy setup, reliable connection. I love the POE.
I've ordered two of these now. If you have HughesNet, most IP Csmeras don't work due to high latency. Nothing wrong with HughesNet, we can't get any other high speed. But, unavoidably, it takes longer for a signal to go to space, and back, than just staying wired on earth. Many IP camera companies will tell you they don't support satellite, even though it's fast (around 20 mbps) it has a huge latency (850-1500ms). This one didn't say either way, so if you're wondering, it works great for us!
My only complaint would be that I wish they made the three cords, coming out of the common cable, different lengths. Three wires: Network/POE, reset button, and direct power; so standing on a ladder mounting above the 2nd floor, pushing them through a small hole is less than ideal. Because they are the same length the cables want to bind up together. Preferably, the largest connector should be the longest, and go in first. The next largest, second in length, and the shortest last.
Nice picture, easy setup, reliable connection. I love the POE.
I've ordered two of these now. If you have HughesNet, most IP Csmeras don't work due to high latency. Nothing wrong with HughesNet, we can't get any other high speed. But, unavoidably, it takes longer for a signal to go to space, and back, than just staying wired on earth. Many IP camera companies will tell you they don't support satellite, even though it's fast (around 20 mbps) it has a huge latency (850-1500ms). This one didn't say either way, so if you're wondering, it works great for us!
My only complaint would be that I wish they made the three cords, coming out of the common cable, different lengths. Three wires: Network/POE, reset button, and direct power; so standing on a ladder mounting above the 2nd floor, pushing them through a small hole is less than ideal. Because they are the same length the cables want to bind up together. Preferably, the largest connector should be the longest, and go in first. The next largest, second in length, and the shortest last.
While AHMED ISMAIL experience Brilliant cameras at a bargain price,night vision is adequate if you follow some pointers..
Ok so daytime vision is superb and it's much clearer than hikvision/dahua 2mp cams and you don't actually need an NVR if you want to record on the SD card which can be inserted into cams just get a POE switch for your cams then access this from your phone/ipad/laptop,if you want a monitor to view then you can use a pc with blue iris or reolink software or alternatively the reolink NVR will be easy too.Setting up on all these platforms was a breeze btw no special networking skills needed!
Ok so night vision in pure darkness is terrible,nowhere close to "starlight" type cams...... however if you are like me and have a few lights around the house then it's pretty decent I can even use them in full colour mode in some areas,if you want reliable motion detection then be sure to switch the built in infrared led's off for night vision as these attract bugs which makes motion detection useless at night.
With the infrared off and certain areas where trees blow in the wind and neighbours lights that turn on randomly at night set to ignore motion detection(all done via app on phone btw very simple) I was able to completely eliminate false motion alerts and the system works great now,if I get an alert on my phone I know it's a cat or person for sure in my yard.
Overall I'm quiet impressed with my purchase and remote viewing works great even on 3G so people who say they can't get it right probably have poor connections and should change viewing quality down to "fluent" in those scenarios as you can't view a 5MP stream on poor connection.
So in conclusion the one potential negative is no "starlight" quality night vision although this is a 3rd/4th of the price of some of those cameras which means this is still one of the best value for money cams currently available and picture quality is way above average.
Ok so daytime vision is superb and it's much clearer than hikvision/dahua 2mp cams and you don't actually need an NVR if you want to record on the SD card which can be inserted into cams just get a POE switch for your cams then access this from your phone/ipad/laptop,if you want a monitor to view then you can use a pc with blue iris or reolink software or alternatively the reolink NVR will be easy too.Setting up on all these platforms was a breeze btw no special networking skills needed!
Ok so night vision in pure darkness is terrible,nowhere close to "starlight" type cams...... however if you are like me and have a few lights around the house then it's pretty decent I can even use them in full colour mode in some areas,if you want reliable motion detection then be sure to switch the built in infrared led's off for night vision as these attract bugs which makes motion detection useless at night.
With the infrared off and certain areas where trees blow in the wind and neighbours lights that turn on randomly at night set to ignore motion detection(all done via app on phone btw very simple) I was able to completely eliminate false motion alerts and the system works great now,if I get an alert on my phone I know it's a cat or person for sure in my yard.
Overall I'm quiet impressed with my purchase and remote viewing works great even on 3G so people who say they can't get it right probably have poor connections and should change viewing quality down to "fluent" in those scenarios as you can't view a 5MP stream on poor connection.
So in conclusion the one potential negative is no "starlight" quality night vision although this is a 3rd/4th of the price of some of those cameras which means this is still one of the best value for money cams currently available and picture quality is way above average.
My friend Mike said quality ball joint for alignment.
I have 7 IP based cameras and 5 inline cameras many of which have needed replacing over the last 5 years or so. So I have owned a few. I wanted POE and 5 MP so I chose the RLC-410-5MP. The first thing I noticed was the ease in aligning the camera and the single tightening screw, the best I have seen yet. Setup took a few minutes using Blue Iris DVR software. I like this camera so much I felt it needed a review. Sometimes for laughs I read reviews and wonder what people are thinking. Apparently many of these reviews are fake also but this is a great camera and I wish my friend had taken my advice when he purchased his. This camera does everything I want at the best possible price.
I have 7 IP based cameras and 5 inline cameras many of which have needed replacing over the last 5 years or so. So I have owned a few. I wanted POE and 5 MP so I chose the RLC-410-5MP. The first thing I noticed was the ease in aligning the camera and the single tightening screw, the best I have seen yet. Setup took a few minutes using Blue Iris DVR software. I like this camera so much I felt it needed a review. Sometimes for laughs I read reviews and wonder what people are thinking. Apparently many of these reviews are fake also but this is a great camera and I wish my friend had taken my advice when he purchased his. This camera does everything I want at the best possible price.
Another customer Jack Frost experience I have had these for almost 2 months now and they are amazing!.
I wanted to wait to review these until I had tried them out for a while. They have not disappointed me at all!
The picture quality is great! Definitely not you average picture of a 7/11 robber. If all business had these criminals would have to up their disguise game.
Installation was easy, but does require you to have some basic handy man knowledge. The instructions are very informative and easy to understand. If you are not attaching these to a Reolink DVR make sure you purchase a POE network switch or injector.
Motion detection works great, when I first installed them I wanted to test it out so I sat in the room it is in and tried to be as still as possible. I waited for 2-3 minutes and it still said there was motion until I physically left the room.
I wanted to wait to review these until I had tried them out for a while. They have not disappointed me at all!
The picture quality is great! Definitely not you average picture of a 7/11 robber. If all business had these criminals would have to up their disguise game.
Installation was easy, but does require you to have some basic handy man knowledge. The instructions are very informative and easy to understand. If you are not attaching these to a Reolink DVR make sure you purchase a POE network switch or injector.
Motion detection works great, when I first installed them I wanted to test it out so I sat in the room it is in and tried to be as still as possible. I waited for 2-3 minutes and it still said there was motion until I physically left the room.
As Hummingbirds say Love this, high quality!.
This is one of the best cams we have in our system (we have a combo of 8MP, 5MP, 4MP, PTZ cams on a POE switch connected to Reolink NVR). Very close quality to the 4K cams, and night vision in complete dark is excellent! We can see about 70 ft away with in total darkness. Daytime is amazingly crisp and clear. Works great on the NVR system and looks great on 4K monitor. I would buy more of this one for sure!
This is one of the best cams we have in our system (we have a combo of 8MP, 5MP, 4MP, PTZ cams on a POE switch connected to Reolink NVR). Very close quality to the 4K cams, and night vision in complete dark is excellent! We can see about 70 ft away with in total darkness. Daytime is amazingly crisp and clear. Works great on the NVR system and looks great on 4K monitor. I would buy more of this one for sure!
Review H. Eng experience New hardware revision is garbage, no firmware available yet for version 5xxx cameras.
I've purchased 4 Reolink cameras in 2018 and they progressively have changed their hardware revisions as they went from 4mp to 5mp. I have no issues with those cameras. They are still working for me. However, I recently purchased a RLC-410-5MP and RLC-420-5MP at the same time in January 2019 and these are new revisions. Here are the problems I found:
1- camera would freeze and stutter randomly while using Windows Client or Web interface
2- on motion detect and recording, the camera would freeze and stutter while using Windows Client or Web interface
These two problems existed on both cameras (410 and 420) and I was using the latest Reolink Windows Client v7.2.2.28. My four other cameras are still fine. You go to the manufacturer's website and you find that they have not released any firmware for these newer hardware revision 51xx cameras. I understand they may not be aware of the problems or perhaps a bad batch has been released into the market. Certainly there are many happy reviews of these two models. Unfortunately I have to return these as they are unusable. I will not buy the older 4mp models just to see if they are any better as that stock will run out and you will not know what you will get next or in a year or two when you need replacements. Too risky and frustrating to deal with...
Too bad, I really like their PC Windows Client for motion detection recording on my dedicated Windows 10 PC. On to another brand for consistency in quality.
I've purchased 4 Reolink cameras in 2018 and they progressively have changed their hardware revisions as they went from 4mp to 5mp. I have no issues with those cameras. They are still working for me. However, I recently purchased a RLC-410-5MP and RLC-420-5MP at the same time in January 2019 and these are new revisions. Here are the problems I found:
1- camera would freeze and stutter randomly while using Windows Client or Web interface
2- on motion detect and recording, the camera would freeze and stutter while using Windows Client or Web interface
These two problems existed on both cameras (410 and 420) and I was using the latest Reolink Windows Client v7.2.2.28. My four other cameras are still fine. You go to the manufacturer's website and you find that they have not released any firmware for these newer hardware revision 51xx cameras. I understand they may not be aware of the problems or perhaps a bad batch has been released into the market. Certainly there are many happy reviews of these two models. Unfortunately I have to return these as they are unusable. I will not buy the older 4mp models just to see if they are any better as that stock will run out and you will not know what you will get next or in a year or two when you need replacements. Too risky and frustrating to deal with...
Too bad, I really like their PC Windows Client for motion detection recording on my dedicated Windows 10 PC. On to another brand for consistency in quality.
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