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Hey guys,

I've absolutely had it with my Ring camera and doorbell, ive started using a network wide VPN and they are just too unreliable and expensive to continue - let alone actively blocking IPs from VPNs which I didnt know about and think is ridiculous.

I have looked in to Reolink cameras because I've seen someone talking about them before on lemmy, question is:

Have any of you used Reolink cameras and NVR in your setup and how well does it integrate / whats your opinion on the cameras themselves?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Any cameras that support RTSP and ONVIF should work well with whatever software you want to use. I've got some Dahua and Amcrest cameras, but Reolink is decent too. Reolink isn't great in low lighting though, so prefer higher quality (albeit more expensive) Dahua cameras for outdoor cameras in areas that are dark at night.

I use Blue Iris. Frigate is good, but it's not nearly as powerful as Blue Iris, and its bundled AI models aren't as good as the ones in CodeProject AI (which Blue Iris uses).