REOLINK 4K 16CH WiFi NVR with Wi-Fi 6 and 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band WiFi, Built-in 2TB HDD, Support 16MP/12MP/8MP/5MP/4MP Reolink Cameras, 24/7 Recording Home Security Camera System, Not PoE Ports, RLN12W

Great if you don't want to pay monthly subscriptions. This is pretty nice, taking care of rolling storage and a separate network for all the camera traffic. It's easy to setup, has robust configuration, and otifications work well. The only thing that's a little annoying is that there are 3 separate monitoring UIs that all function a little different. Plugging a monitor directly into the server seems to provide the most features but is the least convenient. There are also mobile and web UIs which are a little different as well. All in all I'm very happy with the system. Reolink has a nice system of cameras at a good value. I started with just a doorbell camera and have been adding more cameras around the house.

Awesome product! all the cameras are connected to my TP-Link network. I have 4 trackmix PoE, one trackmix wifi, one rlc-823a, a rlc-820a. Plus connected a plug and play wireless mouse.Replaced a Laptop running Blueiris for the Reolink. The Blueiris image was getting delayed and the quality of the picture was not as good.Very easy to setup. It is so talk my son into getting one.

I've had this NVR for almost a year now. I'm using two of the Reolink Duo Floodlight WiFi cameras and the Reolink Doorbell WiFi Camera. As soon as I installed my cameras I knew that a direct connection to the NVR was not going to be possible. The connection was too poor. The camera on the back of my house is like 20ft away (conservatively) and it had no shot.I spent a lot of money trying to get a good connection from my cameras and nothing has worked. I was running Google WiFi Mesh with three different access points throughout the house. I specifically placed one access point as close as possible to the camera on my garage. The connection was still terrible. Since I couldn't turn off the 5ghz band on the Google system, I decided to switch to a TP-Link Deco Mesh system that would allow me to run exclusively on 2.4ghz in hopes that it would connect over a longer distance. As you can see in the picture, the connection is still terrible. The camera on my garage constantly lags behind. The connection will also randomly drop altogether for a few seconds every couple of minutes.I bought this unit and the cameras to go with it to replace Ring WiFi cameras that I had the exact same issue with. It's extremely frustrating that I'm having the same issues after spending probably close to $1000 (NVR, cameras, multiple routers) in hopes of resolving the connection issues. For reference, my phone stays connected all the way to the street and beyond, which is roughly 60ft from the nearest access point. The camera on my garage is about 15ft from the closest access point. My house is a regular suburban colonial. Most people I know have a single router that covers their entire house. I can't understand why a company would make and advertise a WiFi camera system that works so poorly under some of the most average circumstances.On top of all that:-The user interface for the NVR is atrocious. You basically need a computer science degree to use it. There are a million options and you will need to Google what every single one means because they offer no information on the UI.-The motion sensing takes a ton of tweaking to get right and even then it's still finicky.-The Android app will show you what and where is triggering the motion sensor, but the monitor I have connected to the NVR will not. Why? Whyyyyyyyy?-If ever you should try to manually input the WiFi information when connecting to a camera and get it wrong, you have lost the connection forever and you will have to uninstall the camera from wherever you have it set up and bring it to the NVR and connect it directly with an ethernet cable. You will also need a power supply for this if you are using WiFi cameras. Ask me how I know. If you have misplaced the adapter cable for the doorbell, you will have to order a power supply from Amazon because Reolink does not sell that on its website.Now for the positives:-It comes with a large hard drive and overwrites the oldest footage when it's full.-Compared to Ring it's great because it's always recording (as long as you have a connection lol).-I removed a star from my review when thinking about this because my only other positives are about the actual cameras.I don't know what the answer is, but I know it isn't this.

I have now had the 16ch NVR and indoor/outdoor cameras long enough to write a review. I have used WiFi security cameras in my home in Costa Rica for years and all of them have been problematic. Most homes there are built like Roman fortresses and have issues with Wifi conductivity. After the companies tried to force everyone to the paid cloud I bought the RioLink system and have been 100% pleased conductivity is great even through concrete and they were very easy to set up. An added bonus is that the software is great and can be viewed from PC or mobile devices and it is reliable. Your recordings are stored on your site and not out in the cloud......great system.

Setup instructions are not very clear. I used a remote netgear wi-fi booster to plug the cat6 cable into to do the setup (per instructions) but the reolink nvr would only work if I left the cat6 cable connected, all the channels went blank if I unplug the cat6 cable. Thats fine, I can live with that. Next problem: when you are setting up the channels everytime you hit the refresh button, you get a different list of cameras, so I had to refresh at least a dozen times before it found all the cameras. One of the cameras I had to manually enter its info before it would add it to the channels list. Overall, installation took me 3 hours to get the nvr set up, that was with cameras that have been on an existing network for 2+ years. Since reolink dropped cloud support for the e1 series cameras this was a fairly cheap alternative ($170-ish), just make sure you have time to troubleshoot the setup. Since the setup, no issues with any of the cameras recording and doing live replay.

This works well for our security cameras, and makes a huge improvement on the reliability and frame rate of camera feeds since I can place it more centrally between the cameras. My biggest complaint is that it needs an Ethernet hardline and can't connect to my home WiFi. I didn't have a line run to where I wanted this NVR so I ended up buying a TP Link Access Point. I really think that's something that they should add for future capability on new models.

Great product allows me to connect to all my real link wireless cameras and have it on one Central station with large recording capacity. A must-have if you want to monitor all your cameras and have a display attached

1st day. So far, its better to buy a pc and record locally instead of this peice of crap.Has stabilized mostly. Have to power cycle every so often. Seems to help for a while. Attempting to run cameras at lower resolutions (6 channels used), to see if the lag goes away. This lag was not present when cameras were through router only, before nvr. Upgraded from 1 star to 2 stars. Will continue to update as needed.