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@davidw717

8 ай бұрын

That is a pretty big flaw.

@mattsaxon994

8 ай бұрын

The UK affiliate link looks wrong to me, this is for the 4G, not Wifi version I think.

@ial6658

8 ай бұрын

I have a question paul. I have an Ezviz C2C camera. And it will not connect in any way. 1. do you know whats wrong with it and 2. Is there anyway I can bypass the connection issue?

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

@@mattsaxon994 Argh, sorry dude! Corrected now!! thanks for letting me know!

@PhantomScottZ

8 ай бұрын

I have a Reolink doorbell and a E1 Pro PTZ camera and my Google Nest also has a massive delay viewing footage. A car could drive past the front, and it could take up to a minute thereabouts to actually show on my Nest Hub. Sounds like it's either a Reolink playback or something on Google's servers? But hopefully Reolink can do sort something themselves as a blanket fix.

“Get out of my garden you slag” 😂😂 Love it..

@David-bl1bt

8 ай бұрын

Slaaaaaag! 😂🤣😆

Excellent presentation once again. As usual, I'm very thankful that you mention the shortcomings of these devices and not leave us all with questions. I hope they come out with a POE version that will be compatible with other systems. Have a great weekend and stay out of trouble or don't get caught, lol.

I look forward to seeing an update video on this camera after you've used it a few months. It sounds like something I'd really like to have - but it'd be nice to get it to work in a routine so I could turn my porch light up when someone is approaching the door. I had this in the dark ages using Linux, Wemo motion and a wemo light, but can't seem to get it sorted since switching to a mix of different tech. As always, love your videos and thank you for making this Saturday extra nice by just being your usual goofy self. Loved the treadmill gag on X too!

A bit over a year ago, I was testing and then installing the 1080p versions of these but with 4g SIM cards instead of WiFi. And they were solar powered. They were absolutely amazing for remote CCTV installs and getting footage out of the app was really easy, too. Absolutely blew my mind that we didn't have to have any power on-site for these and they worked so well.

Great video as always!! Thanks for the presentation.

Why you do not have 1m subscribers is beyond me. Between the concise thorough review and the humor peppered into each video, hands down you are the best of the best.

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man, I needed that today ❤️

Very funny and informative again as always keep up the great work 👍🏼. Vehicle, package, person and animal detection you’ve seen before in the EVE outdoor camera.

Great video as always! 👍 IIs it possible to connect the camera to Reolinks NVR?

Happy Saturday Paul. Thank you.

Looks really good, unfortunately the lack of third party support rules it out for me personally. I am looking for a decent HomeKit camera.

Paul, you should take a look at their dual lens PTZ camera - records and displays both wide angle and 6x zoom simultaneously. It’s like how cctv works on TV!

I would love to see an episode where you showcase all the smart home products that you use on a regular bases. are you living like the Jetsons yet? you need a robot nanny, a instant food making robot, a flying pod car and a house in the clouds then you'd be all set!

Oh my God, I loved Chas. Thank you just for that.😊

I've recently thrown all 8 of my Ezviz cameras and replaced them with Reolink, and I feel like my life has been a lie all this time. I'm so annoyed that I put up with that absolute trollop for so long when it could have been this better. I actually legit took a hammer to one of my Ezviz cameras as I've been so ffkkkknnn frustrated with it for so many years, it was the release I've been needing. Now got some 811A's up and never had it so good, I can actually see video when I ask instead of spending 20 minutes refreshing a page hoping the link to China is stable enough to show me my garden.

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

Wow, that's a shame! I've really liked all the EZVIZ cameras I've tried, though I did at some point have an issue with them not liking my router. Wonder if it's a compatibility thing!

@Neil3D

8 ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert I reviewed some of their gear through their PR team for the channel and they seemed great in small doses, but living with them for around 6-7 years it's been a totally different story. They've failed to capture things when needed, the 1 job they had, and on those times that you really need fast on-demand access to your clips it times out frequently and dies. Many of the outdoor cameras have subsequently failed too. I'd sooner employ a dodgy less than trustworthy guard called Winston Jr with a sketchy past to watch out over my house than install Ezviz again. I had everything, their NVR, outdoor, indoor, doorbell, the lot, the doorbell was the worst tbh... it was like trying to communicate with the Mars Rover

@Suzukii-DIY

8 ай бұрын

I'd like to do the same to my Arlo Scam Cams as soon as I can find a suitable replacement for all 8 of them. They are 4k/30FPS but only record at that resolution when one is a paying subscriber after the initial 1yr which was not the case when I purchased them over 3+ years ago

One thing that's important to note AND no review seems to mention this: Reolink battery cameras like the PT Ultra do not support pre-recording. What this means is that you will often receive notifications of an event (e.g. Person detected, Car detected, etc.) but the video associated with the event will just be an empty scene (i.e. no Person, Car, etc. within view). By the time the camera wakes up and starts recording, the triggering "thing" has already left the frame which is why you want pre-recording support. While I could see this being a feature for when these cameras are not connected to any power source (solar panel, USB cable, etc.) it doesn't make sense to leave it out when they are connected to a power source (solar panel, USB cable, etc.). As a security device the omission of a pre-recording buffer is highly problematic.

Love the comedy. Good review. You are fantastic.

Educational, accurate and funny as ever and a pretty good price too. Lack of third party support is a shame. I'd be interested to know how far away the solar panel can be placed or perhaps the lenght of the cable supplied please.

Interesting video as always? Does the camera support RTSP? Is the image resolution anything to do with slow video connections or notifications?

@BadgerBob

8 ай бұрын

Their POE ones do (work great with home assistant and HomeKit via Scrypted) but their WiFi ones don’t. Not sure if this does.

@acts9531

8 ай бұрын

@@BadgerBob Many wireless cameras do not support RTSP because the protocol assumes an always on connection. Not always on power, always on connection. If the camera only sends a video stream when called then it very likely doesn't support RTSP either. If you're using something that needs ONVIF and/or RTSP you need to be careful with your camera selection. I have WansView and EsCam wireless cameras that supports RTSP but I was diligent in finding out if they did so before I bought them. If the camera supports those protocols you can use it in a third party camera server application like Blue Iris. If not you probably can't. BTW, those cameras are the most finicky and least reliable of the 20 or so cameras I have in service. If wired is an option, even if it means pulling cable and setting up drops, it's always the more reliable choice. Sometimes for whatever reason wireless is the only option but there are liabilities that go with that which wired cameras do not suffer from, or at least do not suffer from nearly as much.

I use a lot of reolink cameras, and the new doorbell is very good - worth a review!

Hey Paul, can you run different schedules dependant on geofencing result?

I watched all 14 minutes because there were head explosions and innuendoes. 😊 keep up the good work.

Love your videos. I have not seen any videos about Logitech CircleView cameras. Thought I’d share the Logitech CircleView cameras have facial recognition and alerts for animals, vehicles, and packages.

Hi Paul, first of all congrats for for such an amusing channel. I really like it and one of my favourite things about you is your english! yes, let me explain it. English is not my mother tongue and even though my english is not that bad !you are so easy to understand!. Please I have seen so many of your videos... I think I remember you recommending one cable duct. But no way finding that one. Could you please help me? Thanks and go on riding that fly!

Do you know if home assistant support and onvif are going to be supported in the future

BlueIris is pretty good for the cameras. I have some Reolink cameras setup in BlueIris. The AI in BlueIris will shoot out an MQTT message if it sees a person. I can then combine this with automations in Home Assistant to send out notifications if it's a person comming onto my property from outside the property (as opposed to someone leaving the house).

@Artificial.Unintelligence

8 ай бұрын

Yeah need some clarity on if it's just not directly useable in home assistant but can work through things like blue iris.. I added a giant list of questions to his main pinned comment because I feel like it was a decent review but a lot of details missing that SHOULD be getting compared in all reviews, even if it's just a chart on the screen for ease

10:55 Reolink looks so good.. it even has x-ray vision to see through plants!

I have been using the Argus cameras for a while with solar panels. Is this camera actually waterproof as you put it in your garden ?

Hi, I know that it states indoor/outdoor but I couldn't find any info on the operational temperatures of the camera, would you happen to know? Thanks :)

With the PTZ does it follow you around when it detects a face like the eufy indoor cam does?

Are there any starvis2 cameras coming out? I saw the Imx678 sensor in a demo and it looks amazing in ultra low light

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How quick is the app to display the live feed? I've recently purchased a similar camera and takes roughly 12-15 seconds before I see a live feed.

damned rad! one day, I will buy you that coffee/beer

Did you recommend to the company that they should make their products more compatible by adapting them for use with matter and or thread? Also apple HomeKit and home assistant ? From a profit and market share perspective , this adaptation makes a lot of sense. I’m surprised at the lack of forethought and innovation in the implementation of this product before bringing it to market.

@dracomon84

8 ай бұрын

Their POE and standard WiFi cameras (powered by 5V or 12V depending on model) can be integrated into Home Aassistant, not sure about Homekit though, just not the battery/solar powered cameras. If someone wanted to do those integrations they could look into the E1 Outdoor Pro as a direct comparison to this one. The E1 Pro also has person tracking.

@dalesupertramp9234

6 ай бұрын

@@dracomon84The E1 also has 3X optical zoom and color night vision.

Cheers, followed your link, and ended up buying the wrong one 😢 luckily just read someone stating it's wrong, and now ordered the right one, and have the blumming hassle of sending the wrong one back 😮 I'm hoping I'll be happy with it now lol👌

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

So sorry mate, glad you saw the other persons comment. I updated it as soon as I heard. Sorry again 😕

Hahaha I’m going to be so pissed if you don’t do the “on the fly” joke every time now lol I wait for it every episode!

If you were to mount it upside down or to the side, can the video be rotated?

Have three Argus 3 Pros and they work great as standalone devices but without POE they're just about useless for HA integration. Since they use solar and battery they can't do constant streaming and using something like Neolink to get the RTSP stream will just drain the battery. Wish Reolink would come up with some kind of workaround so they can be better integrated with Frigate and "wired like" functionality.

Looks from their website it also has 4G/LTE? Or is that a different model. Does it have an Ethernet (wired) port also for backup/config? Tks

These seem very impressive compared to the current competition, so was just about to ‘add to basket’ to replace my aging Arlo 2 Pro system, when thought does it have geofencing like Arlo does. Apparently not on any Reolink products, want this to disable cameras when at home, so back to the drawing board….

Can you access the camera and recorded video on your phone when you are away from your house without signup?

Could you put it near a bird table or would it trigger all the time and flatten the battery ? Only really need on-demand watching rather than recording.

Hey Paul. Was just thinking about how you don't appear to have texted any Wyze cameras to see where their various offerings stack up in the budget end of things, but then i remembered that they're not in the UK. Wonder if they'll ever launch for you guys in old blighty?!

Hiya Paul, I don't see anywhere if the camera is waterproof or not. It says it's an outdoor camera but it doesn't list waterproof specs.

They had me until I saw it was transmitting and recording at less than 30FPS and had no color night vision. So sad. I got all excited and would've dumped my Arlo cams for a few of these.

Can it be used in LAN mode? I feel 4k over wifi is going to saturate it a bit, I already have a few cameras running and this would be awesome to replace my old PTZ I have pointed at my chook shed (It also reports stuff back to huawei which is why it watches the chickens haha) but it doesnt let me set home points so if it hears a moth fart it turns to face it so I had to turn off sound and person detection.

Morning! How good are the solar panels in the uk? Especially with the shorter days at the moment.

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

I have a south facing garden, and they've always been great for me for all the devices I've used. Obviously this one hasn't had a winter yet, but a previous Reolink cam I had never died :)

@chimaerad

8 ай бұрын

I have 3 Reolink Argus Eco solar (not this model) and they are all showing 100% - never had them drop below about 80%

Is infrared night vision still a smeary mess with moving objects like all other Reolink cameras are? I know they can look reasonable with still images but moving images are more important given intruders don't tend to stand still for the camera :) Couldn't really tell that well on the short footage you had. I have had delays on other Reolink camera's with Alexa and Google, so I believe this may be an issue with the Reolink integration. I don't have the same delay on Home Assistant with wired cameras. I would like to play with a wireless camera in Home Assistant as there is a Reolink integration for it. Might be able to get it to work with some playing.

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

No smearing that I can see dude!

Bloke complaining about the smut forgot to take the plastic tag off his shirt sleeve 😂

Just picked up one for my mother-in-law's house. It was stupid easy to setup. I think it took longer to download the app.

Havnt tried this camera but you can use other reolinks with Frigate in Home assistant.

Honest review, shame about the Alexa delay. I would suggest calling in a structural engineer, your house looks a little unstable (10:56).

Would have been great to see a real test and see things like the recording results. I have six Reolink cameras two are outdoors and suffer from Battery issues with recording. When I walk past the camera by the time they wake up and start recording I am no longer visible. For me this is an important feature because I want to be able to identify anyone who is checking out things first before coming back later. A 4k recording is useless if the person is not visible on the recording. My powered cameras when they record also have the 10 seconds prior to being triggered, which due to this draining batteries I have not see a good fix for yet on battery Cams.

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

I didn’t notice that issue during testing. I am putting the camera up permanently soon as I liked it so much and will test this!

@MrAshman3000

8 ай бұрын

I have the same problem with my solar powered reolink. Terrible for picking up motion. I can go in and out of the shed and it won't capture anything.

I would be keen for an update video on this if the delay gets fixed. Any chance of that? Maybe a bit of an update on what it's like to live with?

@RobDickson69

8 ай бұрын

There is an update.

@knifeyonline

8 ай бұрын

@@RobDickson69 oh haha 😅 I know about the reply from Reolink saying "Please patiently wait for the update.", I was referring to an update like... they actually fix the issue or claim to have fixed it.

You’re describing 75% of Eufy cameras

Was surprised to find it says use only above freezing temp, great option for Africa then!

No functionality blocked behind a paywall? No account needed to use it? Free cloud storage? Very nice🎉 Some companies need to learn from Reo if this stays like this forever What about integration with Home assistant or other ones? So we don't have to use their app?

I’ve got multiple models of Reo cams some wired some WiFi All have the delay issue in Alexa … been like it for at least 2 years .. on latest firmware

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

Doh!! Hope they stick to their promise and get it sorted!

If it had onvif and local notifications then I'd already be disassembling the couch to scrape together the money to buy this. :(

Does Reolink have an API, and is it local? Seems like some cameras of theirs do, some don't. Does this camera have a local web interface, apparently if it does then it also has a local API. This is why I stay with Foscam because it has a local device side API and web interface. This is important for home assistant, and other custom, integrations. Also did it come with mounting hardware for the wall? I didnt see any in the unboxing area?

I have an indoor camera from the same brand that cost me a fraction of this one, that tracks people as they walk by, adjusting its position and following the action. Why this camera doesnt do that?

I never knew the name of that programme until now

Sigh you had to show me this. I already have 5 Reolink cameras and now it looks like I will have 6 or 7 :-) Also screw cloud storage. I store to my local NAS for free. Reolink cameras do work with Home Assistant with a custom integration.

When I set presets on My Reolink ptz camera over time it turns them all by 180° which means the home preset is now facing my house wall! Lots of footage of the wall . I end up having to reset the cam and set the presets again! Got fed up in the end , cba to faff with it again!

Could this work as camping security cam? ie Can a smartphone connect directly to it without a router?

@michaeljohnson89

8 ай бұрын

Turn your phones hotspot on, easiest way

You might want to check eufy S350

11:40 that problem is an old one, I have been using reolink since their Argus pro and I had the same issue. But otherwise, they are good cameras.

The trouble with 4K wifi cameras is that if you have several of them, that's a lot of data being moved around the network and uploaded to the cloud. Its a big drain on bandwidth. I have a couple of Ring indoor 1080P cameras and they are perfectly fine, a lot better image wise than the abysmal quality on your outdoor one.

The WiFi bandwidth monopolized by a 4K wireless camera is ferocious. While a single 4K camera might be doable if you require multiple cameras with multiple views you're going to experience tremendous network congestion and lag. If all you need is a single camera you'll probably do just fine with this one and get a better picture in the bargain. If you need a couple or a few of these they're going to gum up your wireless network so nothing works well, including the cameras. I have nearly 20 cameras monitoring the acreage I live on and I can't spare the bandwidth for even one or two of these cameras. I always prefer Ethernet wired nodes (including and especially cameras) where possible because I'm an IT pro so I have a very robust WiFi and wired LAN infrastructure. Wired cameras are just a far more preferable option for me but you're not me and your requirements might vary quite a lot. The real deal killer for me with this camera is lack of RTSP and ONVIF support. That means I cannot integrate this camera into my monitoring software/camera server so I wouldn't even consider buying it. At least not until Reolink offers that feature. I do have a place I'd love to put a camera like this but that camera in that place absolutely must be on a wired network and not WiFi. I have Reolink cameras and they are among the most reliable and best detailed viewing I own. I have nothing at all against Reolink, they're good cameras. I just can't and won't use this camera because while it might generate a great picture, that's useless if I can't put that picture where I need it. Where I need it is on my camera server (Blue Iris) program.

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

The 2 things are related I guess. No Onvif because too much bandwidth. You could have 100 of these cameras, and they'll only utilise bandwidth whilst they're being viewed.

@acts9531

8 ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert That makes sense and is undoubtedly true. So this camera will not work for someone like me and you make a good point. For the people this camera will work for it won't jam up their WiFi except when the camera is actually being viewed. That's a very valid thing to understand if someone is considering this camera and it was good of you to take the time to point it out. I didn't mean to scare anyone away on the basis of bandwidth so I gladly accept your additional information and clarification. I think in terms of a static camera display that's always on, the full display of all cameras is constantly on a computer monitor and all cameras are available at once via an app or browser. A 4K camera in such a system will gobble *_WiFi_* bandwidth constantly and aggressively. The people who use a camera system where they don't need or desire a constant video display from the cameras 24/7/365 are the target market for this particular camera. Which bums me out a bit because of the lack of hardwired Ethernet access to this camera. If it had an onboard Ethernet connection then the bandwidth would not be an issue. There are several TV's here where I live that might all be playing a 4K stream from a provider platform at the same time. They also happen to be connected by a gigabit or higher physical wire or optical adapter feeding Ethernet in the immediate proximity. My physical network could handle a properly configured 4K camera or two, maybe three, placed where that kind of resolution would do the most good. Sadly because it lacks RTSP and ONVIF support that means this camera is not usable by me. That said, it's good that we discuss this so that people can understand what they're getting into. If they're like me this camera is a hard pass. If they use a camera system like most people (clearly I'm not like most people which makes me odd 😎 ) then this camera should provide excellent service. Reolink makes good, dependable cameras at a fair price point. They're not the cheapest offerings but they're better than the cheapest cameras too. The price and features of Reolink cameras compare well with much more expensive cameras that don't perform significantly better. Reolink also has a configuration app for Windows 10/11 for those cameras that I use exclusively. I have a pretty serious IT system and I hate doing things on a tiny little phone or pad screen that I could more easily do with a desktop. Which is yet another thing that makes me odd. Thanks for all you do, Paul. Information that allows me to decide not to buy is as valuable as information that facilitates the decision to buy. Keep up the good work. *_Illegitimi non carborundum_*

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

Thanks dude! I’ve not looked at bandwidth issues on WiFi for a while, are you saying that watching 4k streams on more than one Tv at a time could be difficult if doing so via WiFi? There’s only me and Neesha in the house so we’ve never run into this issue as we watch Tv together, but I’m curious if there was another person in the house watching a 4K stream in another room whether I’ll suddenly have an issue! I’ll have to test this theory! We’re using an amplifi hd router and it had never occurred to me the WiFi bandwidth would ever be a bottleneck at 1300Mbps 🤔

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

Just doing some research and I’m wondering where I’m going wrong with the math, you sound like you have more experience in this regard so don’t take this as me trying to get one over on you, it’s quite the opposite, I’m assuming I’m missing some information… The bandwidth required for a 4K stream is 25Mbps, and my router is capable of producing 1300Mbps, so shouldn’t I be able to watch 52 of these cameras at a time?

@acts9531

8 ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert I don't know how much you know so if I seem pedantic to you, forgive me. You probably won't be the only one reading this. Which means this is going to be pretty 'long winded' for a KZread comment but it is what it is. The incoming stream is directed to the playing device at your perimeter interface (router) via NAT from your public IP to your internal LAN IP. If you're running two 4K TVs playing two different shows (or the same show at different points in the show) that signal is split at your router and directed to the respective device. Your external ISP connection may be able to handle that at Gb/s + speeds just fine. If your local wired LAN is either gigabit Ethernet or better (like optical) then the solid physical connections on your network can take quite a bit of data volume if you have the proper networking gear. Wireless LAN (WiFi) is a different matter. It's still networking and it still uses the same TCP, UDP and other protocols but it's a radio transmission and reception. It's subject to all the same problems as any other radio transmission. Theoretically if you had two 100 watt beam antennas facing each other across an empty room it would behave exactly like your wired network does. Up to the limit of its carrying capacity including networking overhead. Of course you do not have two 100 watt beam antennas facing each other across an empty room. You have walls with plumbing and wiring in them, furniture, appliances, and lights. Appliances like microwave ovens and fluorescent lights are extremely "radio noisy". You have moving resistors packed with electrolytes called human beings and those are often moving a fairly significant radio source of their own around with them in the form of cell phones, Bluetooth or other wireless devices. External to your home you have things like aircraft and police radar that work on bands that are either close or overlap with your internal WiFi bands. Unlike your wired or optical network components the wireless environment is constantly in flux. On a physical connection you get a clean full capacity signal from end to end unless you did something drastically wrong setting it up. Like running an Ethernet cable in the wall directly behind a microwave oven or laid over the top of a fluorescent light fixture in a drop ceiling. You pretty much never get that quality of signal with WiFi, our modern world is just too noisy in the radio bands and radio signals have issues with obstacles between transmitter and receiver. Density of the obstacles is also important. A radio signal will pass through a wall much more readily if it's hitting that wall at a flat 90 degree angle. As the angle becomes shallower the effective density increases. I.E. at a direct perpendicular angle it will pass between studs in the wall, at a shallow angle it has to pass through a greater span of wall material and even possibly several wall studs. These things all act to attenuate a radio signal. What that all boils down to is that your wireless networking has to adjust to the environment to work properly. Being digital and not like analog radio, wireless POTS phones and analog TV the data flow has to be as near as perfect as possible to work. It does this in two ways. The first is reduction in speed . Your WiFi will drop to a lower speed when the connection isn't perfect. It may search on its own for a cleaner channel or in the case of newer WiFi RFCs it will try multiple broader parallel channels. Neither of which is guaranteed to be successful and usually amounts to a compromise. Which reduces speed too. The second is re-sending failed packets. If the receiving device cannot decode a digital packet perfectly it requests that the packet be resent. Basically while this happens very quickly everything stops until it gets a good packet and is ready for the next one. This also happens in wired networking but not anywhere near as much as in wireless networking. It's a relatively rare thing with wired networks and a comparatively common thing with wireless networks. This also has the effect of reducing speed. What happens is that all these things add up to wireless network saturation long before the same amount of data would saturate a wired network. So the more data that is traversing your wireless network the sooner this saturation occurs. Your wireless network can only carry so much data no matter what and that maximum is reached well before it would be on a wired network. Sorry for the 'long winded' explanation but it's important to know these things in order to understand what's happening in a WiFi network and to answer your question thoroughly. Back to you and Neesha and watching 4K TV via wireless networking ... If you only have one 4K video stream active being fed by one wireless device like a wireless router in a relatively proximal placement you're probably not going to have any problem. As you add more 4K devices to the mix you're going to more closely approach network saturation with every additional device. It has to be so, you're increasing the data flow with every device. That network saturation is dependent on a lot of variables, you might get more available bandwidth in your house than a house across the street with identical networking gear and configuration. Or vise-verse. 4K is a significantly higher data flow than lesser resolutions, more information makes the picture more detailed and clearer and more information means increased data flow which is higher bandwidth consumption. You can offset this to a degree by hard wiring any 4K device that it's possible to do so. On my network I avoid WiFi like the plague, or at least as much as is possible. And I have a pretty robust network both wired and wireless. You could run more 4K TVs (or cameras, or etc.) by hard wiring them all than you could by using nothing but wireless. You can compromise a bit by only running hard wiring to some devices and freeing up WiFi bandwidth for those devices where hard connections are impractical or impossible. I.E. if you had a TV in the same room as your wireless router, plug an Ethernet cable into the back of the router and to the back of the TV and leave the WiFi networking to drive the TV in the next room. It's also very helpful to use WAPs (Wireless Access Points) that are hard wired into the network on the back end. Then set those WAPs up to use different channels and allow device roaming on both the WAP and the devices. If you can get that all balanced out well you can avoid saturating any particular segment of your WiFi because everything will connect to the nearest (strongest signal) WAP which then connects to your hard wired network. If something is interfering with the strongest signal the device will drop back to the next strongest to get a cleaner signal. Etc. This gives you a bunch (depending on the number of WAPS, I have 8 and that barely does the job for me. I really need more.) of wireless network nodes each with it's own saturation limit and none depending on a single WiFi coverage umbrella. Everything in digital networking has an upper limit and that limit is hard and immutable, set by the equipment and configuration you're using to establish your network. When you reach that limit things stop working well. Exceed it by too much and they don't work at all. With the case of video streaming signal(s) in the former case you'll start seeing buffering and transient pixelation, or a temporarily blank screen. in the latter you'll get a "No Internet Connection" error message. With "smart home" stuff you'll start seeing failures to respond from the smart home gear. When your network is saturated, it's saturated. Smart home stuff will start having problems whether it's driven locally by something like Home Assistant or in "the cloud". I hate that "in the cloud" phrase BTW. Finally, why is this important? Because as our demand for interconnectedness goes up, this is something that will be encountered sooner rather than later. I have over 160 nodes on my network and every one of those things is using bandwidth. IOT and smart home stuff might not use a lot of bandwidth but it all adds up cumulatively. The fewer nodes and the less bandwidth those nodes use, the less likely you are to encounter problems. I started having problems a few years ago so I had to spend money, buy gear and take steps to remedy them. Now I can run 4+ 4K TVs and a bunch of other stuff all at once and my ISP feed can handle that. If I were to replace all my (20 or so) cameras with always connected 4K cameras I'd start having problems with everything again. And with the current state-of-the-art gear and 40 years of experience in IT I just might not be able to solve those problems anyway. Pushing the accelerator in your car to the floor does not mean unlimited speed, the car will only go so fast. The same applies to networking and any other machine devised by man. If something seems to have infinite capacity it's just because you 're not using its full capability.

Wyze Cameras have vehicle detection also.

What secret thing is it this time? Is it like the time you broke into house houses and took pictures of yourself wearing the owners underwear?

I have to admit, you and Chaz do have very similar voices. ;)

Does it have rstp?

Does any one know of it has rtsp so I can use it with and exiting nvr?

Does it really not work with home assistant? Why would this one in particular not work when others from Reolink do? I know the integration is community made so have they just not added support for this particular model yet? I'm bummed out because I was specifically looking for an affordable camera for HA.

Happy Hibbertday 😁

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

Right back atcha brother!

Please don’t think that I am stupid but I am. But I have a brain tumor that is hurting my brain. Ok my stupid question- will this camera scan on its own once something enters its preset detection areas. I am 79 years and my REOLINK Trax cam is just to complex for me. It would be so neat if this cam would scan on its own to preset areas it was set for and than return on its own to its dog house until the next alert. I have asked 3 other channels and have gotten no response back. I need to send my Trax back by the 27th if I want to get the camera you texted. I have also the first model of the cam you tested for four years with only it gong out two times from snow covering its solar panel. I hope I am making sense sense the more I type the more confused I become. LMAO 😅I love your channel so guess what I subscribed and clicked on full alerts. Thank You Sir

How does this camera stand up to two hours of constant rain?

Ride that fly boy ! Double funny

Having just purchased this very camera I’m a little disappointed that it doesn’t auto track on its axis you have to physically move the camera via the directional control function in the app .. you would have thought that for the money it would have that basic function that nearly all lesser priced units have .. or am I missing something

The fly, the fly, always the fly and never the elephant. I don't know why he puts up with you; he just sits there and cries. This "secret" project better be about about elephants, is all I can say. He ways nothing less than a David Attenborough special. Can you mount this camera upside down and use it like a ceiling camera? Is dis look cool though. Good job Paul and I think I can speak for all of us when I say... More mid-week videos!

I’m assuming it’ll come to home assistant with an update? What do you think?

@Artificial.Unintelligence

8 ай бұрын

If it doesn't it's pointless

@michaelthompson657

8 ай бұрын

@@Artificial.Unintelligence I thought so too

WOWWWWWW not available on Australia Amazon. We still have to pick from the lovely 2k 4MP range. Hello from the arse end of the world in 2K by the way. Get it? Arse? 😉😄

Sadly it can't do target following which is usually a basic function of a PT(Z) camera even in the lower segment. Without this the pan and tilt function is just a gimmick.

Dear algorithm. Please play nice!!!!

Arlo started out free and the later on they changed to charging everyone.

Tony ❤ shout out 👍

Why doesn't anyone ask how long they last on battery and how quick they charge with solar .

Looks nice, but needs ONVIF and also viewable from a browser window at home would be very useful rather than needing to use your mobile all the time.

@Artificial.Unintelligence

8 ай бұрын

Definitely needs home assistant or other 3rd party open source useable for most people to bother..

No invif = no integration with frigate = no go :)

No discount code?

reelink is awesome

No 3rd party integration means no sale. I was getting ready to order a couple until you said this. Too bad.

Yeah but that sound isn’t the flies wings is it dude 💨 xxx

@paulhibbert

8 ай бұрын

It's tiny Hibbert farts... tinier... tinier Hibbert farts. xxx

@garethjones5068

8 ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert like blowing tissue through a hair comb xxx

Ring is a con, once my battery dies i'm not replacing it, terrible quality and terrible battery life. The give us really low specs for the money we pay.

No account definitely appeals to me.

Hopefully they'll invest in the integrations, looks amazing, but that's the "elephant in the room" for me 🤔

@frozenbutt

8 ай бұрын

There is a custom integration for Home Assistant and it works very well

The free 7 day cloud storage is only for your first camera.

You keep saying you’re filming on the fly. I don’t get it. It doesn’t look like you have a camera when you’re on the fly. How are you filming anything without a camera.

@SmartCrossblade

8 ай бұрын

@paulhibbert I think you need to fix this to make the joke even better 😎