It's excellent to watch your pets or kids indoor but as a security camera for motion detection, just forget it. Picture quality is excellent, field of view is perfect for indoor use, WiFi connection is stable even with the NVR, pan/tilt function works perfect however with some serious lag but it's OK, pan/tilt covers more than enough angle to look around in the room (even behind the camera), software is user friendly, built quality is exceptional so in general it's a very nice piece of engineering work. It's clearly a big update from my previous unbranded indoor camera.
That's why it's shocking to find a basic engineering mistake like the behavior of the motion detection in certain conditions. I know this camera has a pixel-based motion detection, I understand how it works but when you realize it detects the switching between day (color) and night (b&w) mode as a motion, it's priceless. I presumed that the motion detection is disabled for a few seconds while the image mode is changing (b&w - color) because that's how it would make sense to avoid false alarms, but no it's not disabled and that event is not handled at all by the camera sw. So 2 false alarms (dusk & dawn) are coded into the system for every single day as default. If the weather and lights are changing it can be even more and your phone chimes several times per day per camera! So after a while you ending up turning off the notification for motion detection hence as a security camera it's not a good option. I really hope it will be fixed with a new firmware.
That's bad because otherwise this camera is amazing but cannot deliver what's promoted on the website.

• Reolink Balazs - Feb 22, 2022

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  Dear Customer,
  Greetings,
  Thanks for your feedback.
  the E1 pro is based on motion detection, it judges whether each macroblock has moved by dividing the grid. When the number of moved blocks reaches a certain proportion of the number of armed blocks, the alarm will start. 
  
  If these false alarms bother you, you can try our camera with AI detection, which can reduce these types of false alarms.For further information, you can contact our Pre-sale Team https://reolink.com/contact-us/
  Best Regards,
  Reolink Service Team

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I got two E1 Pros to be able to check in on the house while out of town. They're the same model, one plugged in via the LAN port and the other connected via WiFi. Both are extremely unreliable, reboot sporadically, and take a very long time to become responsive when connecting. They're cheap, but still not worth the money.

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I bought more than 10 Reolink RLC-810A outdoor cameras, so I bought 2 E1 Pro cameras for indoor usage. I am disappointed because I tought all of Reolink cameras have the same software feature set , but E1 Pro is not supporting FTP recording which is shame. Also there is no 4K quality indoor camera this is why I have to choose E1 Pro only.

• Reolink info - Dec 03, 2021

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  Hi there, E1 Pro is 2k(4MP) WiFi camera and it doesn’t support FTP. If you need to backup the recordings, you may need to download them from Reolink software to your phone/computer.
  Besides, if you want better resolution and FTP function, you may consider E1 Zoom with 5MP, 3x optical zoom.
  Anything we can help with in your next purchase, please feel free to contact us and we are more than glad to provide suggestions to choose product models.

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hi all ..i have this one hooked up inside the window upside down ..i turn the IR off as it will reflect off the window and you wont see a think ..i have a street light out the front and it is like day light at night ..no one and see it or steal it ..then motion alarm still works great , you just dont get out side sound ..i love it

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i've several Reolink camera, image quality is good on each, good detection.

but the E1 Pro don't have HTTP server, so i can't integrate into Home Assistant ! the E1 Outdoor has this fonctionality !

very disapointing !

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I have 2 E1 Pro ,
I am pleased about the quality of the picture ,
but Person detection feature is missing with my units .
Why ?

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Setup was very easy. The image quality is fine.
But I mounted the cam upside down under the celing to monitor our dog in a L-shaped hallway. The tilt is not enough to watch the space directly under the camera, so the dog can hide there (and does, as it is the best place to overlook the whole hallway).

• Reolink Trigit - Jul 22, 2022

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  Dear Customer
  Greetings，
  
  We would forward your case to our support team for further troubleshooting. They will help you to adjust the monitoring angle.
  
  Best regard
  Reolink Service Team

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I have 2 Reolink cameras and I'm satisfied with the hardware (the image quality is clearly good in comparison with competitors) and with the software which is very simple. However, I don't understand why it's impossible to turn the PIP off with the E1 Pro, whereas it is possible with the Argus. Would it be possible to add this functionnality ? It does not look very difficult and it would make this product perfet for me.

• Reolink Bertrand - Jul 22, 2022

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  Dear Customer
  Greetings，
  
  We would forward your case to our support team .They will contact you within 24 hours.
  
  Best regard
  Reolink Service Team

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Devo dire che di queste tipologie di cam ne ho provate tante, ma questa è di gran lunga la migliore che si possa trovare a questo prezzo anche per gli smanettoni come me.
Ha assolutamente tutto quello che deve avere una telecamera del genere: 4MP, Pan/Tilt, infrarosso per visione notturna, rilevamento del movimento (con possibilità di regolare la sensibilità), esclusione di zone dal rilevamento movimento, oscuramento di aree sensibili nel video, registrazione su scheda sd (continua, o solo in caso di rilevamento movimento e quando si riempie cancella i video più vecchi), allarme sonoro, audio bidirezionale (ascolti i rumori ambientali dalla cam e puoi parlare nel telefono e si sente dalla cam), regolazione accurata della qualità dell'immagine (esposizione, bilanciamento bianco, retroilluminazione, 3D noise reduction; in più si possono impostare due qualità differenti da scegliere poi al volo in fase di visualizzazione in base alla velocità della linea), notifiche push, notifiche email con allegato (immagine o video), programmazione a calendario settimanale degli orari di registrazione (per ogni ora si può scegliere se deve registrare sempre, mai o solo in casi di rilevamento movimento), gestione utenti, led di stato oscurabile, gestione di scene (ad esempio attiva tutti gli allarmi e notifiche o disattiva tutto), eventuale Cloud storage a pagamento e spero di averle dette tutte dato che ha un sacco di funzionalità.
La telecamera è compatibile con vari protocolli di comunicazione: Onvif, RTSP, RTMP
Sono chiaramente disponibili le applicazioni sia Android che IOS e tramite l'applicazione Mac è possibile andare ad modificare, oltre alle opzioni sopra citate che si possono fare anche da app, varie impostazioni avanzate per integrare la cam in sistemi domotici o di sorveglianza più complessi (non so se esista anche sull'applicazione Windows). Si possono ad esempio modificare le varie porte (Media, Http, Https, Rtmp, Rtsp, Onvif), disabilitare UPNP, disabilitare P2P e altre piccole cose.
Chiaramente l'attivazione e la configurazione rimane assolutamente alla portata di tutto come una qualsiasi altra cam quindi anche i meno esperti saranno assolutamente in grado di installare e configurare la loro E1 Pro.
Insomma per il prezzo che ha questa cam è assolutamente il top.

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Hello, only on day 2 , but im impressed so far, simple to setup, clear pictures!
Would recommend!

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