Budget Friendly Surveillance IP Camera Setup: Synology, Reolink Cameras, and Netgear POE switches.

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[beatmoser]

Fact is: Reolink (811a at least) do not support multiple streams, meaning you can chose between network-overload or bad image quality. It would be necessary to be able to switch based on events - yet exactly that does not work. You really should highlight that in the video. I have seen lots of comments online (at synology) pointing that out.

[UpcraftConsulting]

I usually buy the junction box to install these. Making a hole big enough to push the entire pig tail through to the inside of the building appears to be what you are doing here, I just prefer making a smaller hole in the wall and it is easier to do weather sealing on that hole if it can be fixed inside the junction box (Canada winters beat your Michigan winters).
Just have to order the right junction box for the camera you are buying from Reolink as there are 2 variations. Also need to add 2-3 weeks for delivery since they ship from Hong Kong (maybe add another week these days as cargo is delayed with less flights going to China/Hong Kong)

[EsotericArctos]

I find the Reolinks are good quality, as long as you have decent light. Build quality is quite good and they survive in wild weather generally. Where I find Reolink falls down badly is low light and night conditions. The IR night vision is so blurry and smeary that you cannot recognise people unless they are virtually on top of the camera. Bright light conditions though, they are great.
**Did you find the optical zoom sometimes randomly changed on the Reolinks?
I had a few Reolinks where the zoom and focus would just randomly change, causing blurry pictures.

I use a DS918+ to do my home security, but I went for Dahua cameras. They are a little bit more expensive than Reolink, but the night vision was important for me.

[JeffRaye]

I support 6 bars with reolink cameras, blue iris for NVR software, aruba switches, aruba wireless. I love the reolink cameras with Blue Iris.

[msmolyansky]

Reolink is a good on the budget camera system . Make sure you silicone a living crap out of all outside holes . Most of the POE cameras get distroyed by moisture from the lazy installs . Don't be fooled by the enclosed RJ45 tube jack.
Definitely be careful running CCTV on Windows OS . Something Linux based is the best way to go

[aguyandhiscomputer]

I have eight ReoLink 5 MP cameras at work with their factory box. Works well.

[johnson]

We have multiple ReoLink cameras. The product and picture quality are decent and reasonably price. The mobile application for ReoLink does its job well, with minimal delay. Our problems with ReoLink system is their NVR software is not very user friendly when it comes to searching for an event and downloading the video in a suitable format. Our BIGGGG problem with ReoLink is their support. They are entirely in China, which means you can only communicate via email, and you will only get responses in the middle of the night (time difference) that are in broken English. To their credit, they do try to help, but it is extremely frustrating and slow anytime you have to get assistance from ReoLink.

[Snpy]

Amazing value solution with excellent performance, supportability, & simple Ops. What a great company with a lot a great content.

[suehunt]

great video, do you have any vids about how to setup the ip cameras on a serperate nic and how to setup the firewall rules? love your channel, many thanks.

[DiyDadFL]

I've been looking for a different solution, since UniFi transitioned to UniFi Protect. I've actually been looking at the Reolink/Synology solution and I'm thinking of ordering a couple cameras to try out and see how I like them.

[paticiohk]

Hi, Thanks for the video. Can you do video how we can improve the network bandwidth for IP camera system?
What are the methods, hardware can be used? VLAN, jumbo frame, LACP, IGMP, Q0S, managed switch, bandwidth control?
It is not only for IP camera system. In general, it can be for someone hosting many services on the network.

[FirinMahLazer]

Finally pulled the trigger on a Reolink 5MP system with the NVR. I'm not expecting miracles but everything I've seen they appear to perform above their price point. My thought is, at a minimum it gets me *something*. The lines will be ran so if in the future I want to switch to a standalone system run on Blue Iris or something like that I'll just be swapping cameras.

[charlesr.]

Tom thanks for talking about the costs. That was my biggest issue with Synology Survanance licenses.

[Noodles.FreeUkraine]

Great video! Love my DS 918+, the only drawback is that it lacks an HDMI port to connect it right to a monitor, which is commonly found on it's main competitor's (QNAP) devices. Still prefer Synology after all myself, though.

[sharedknowledge]

Nice video and especially timely given the poor choices being made by Ubiquity lately. One key point you left out is every system has limitations on the max number of cameras depending on the NAS/NVR performance, resolution, codecs/compression in the camera, and frame rates. It’s something many don’t realize until they buy a bunch of hardware and find out they can only run a couple cameras at 4K at even 15 FPS. So they end up running at 1080 or even 720 resolution so they can get a decent frame rate with say 8 cameras which means buying 4K cameras was a waste of money or they should have bought a higher end NAS/NVR. The NAS/NVR manufacturers often make the specs obscure in this regard. But a $500 NAS is NOT going to simultaneously record 8 cameras at true 4K and 30 FPS.

[BorisFett]

I've used Reolink for years. Their software, the video quality and the cheap prices sell it for me. I want allot of local storage so I install the software on an old server and have about 28TB of redundant storage at the moment. Out of 18 cameras, I've only had one fail after about 3 years of use and I dont think it was the camera. Cool overview video. I would like something like that Synology if it had the storage i wanted.

[Ressy]

Hey Tom, nice, does that setup allow for blind zones if in motion detection mode?
As in, camera covers driveways and of course part of road, they want it to record people walking up driveway, but not trigger with all the cars driving up and down the road :)
And if so can it be set as multi-blind zones in that one camera?

[auditocanarsie]

I don't see an affiliate link to the Netgear GS116PP 16-Port Gigabit PoE+ Compliant Unmanaged Switch used in the video.

[UnkyjoesPlayhouse]

The 1 Reolink camera I have is junk, it goes offline all the time, my Amcrest camera's including the indoor PTZ are running great with 0 failures in over 2 years of use. Great video..Synology really needs to lower the license cost when I can get Blue Iris for $60, it is the only thing that keeps me from using it.

[asdf]

That Netgear 16 port PoE switch is unmanaged, which means a single 1G uplink to the L3 switch. How many simultaneous 4K video feeds can you push over a single 1G uplink? Better to go with one that has a 10G uplink? (alternative solution: use motion detection on the cameras so you don't have so many multiple simultaneous feeds)