Reolink 6MP Fisheye Panoramic Camera US$100.97 (~NZ$188.72) Delivered @ Reolink Official Store AliExpress

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(First time posting a deal, hope I have all the info!)

Pricing (NZD) For the FE-P PoE Single Camera:
* PB Tech: $327.99
* Ali Express: $188.72 (Broken Down: [Camera $168.05] + [Shipping $1.71] + [GST $23.85] - [Store Coupon (automatic) $4.89])

Other options available:
(These will need to have the $1.71 shipping and GST added to them)
* FE-W Single (WiFi) $182.72 NZD
* FE-P Double (PoE) $329.45 NZD
* FE-W Double (WiFi) $357.45 NZD

I have x2 of these along with many other Reolink cameras and NVR around my house (integrated with Home Assistant to create a full home security system and trigger automation/lights etc.) and some cameras at my place of work too.

Reolink cameras are a great 'bang for buck' system that has many differnt styles of cameras/specs and most off Ai detection for People, Cars and Pets for less false triggers.
Most of their cameras can be used on their own (no NVR needed) with just power and an SD Card to record to or can combine with an NVR for larger storage.

YouTube video of one in use

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  kiwijunglist on 09/01/2024 - 10:11

  +2

  Great first post thank you for sharing

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  Wakrak on 09/01/2024 - 10:43

  +3

  Discount	Min Spend	Coupon Code
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  $5	$49	24WS05
  $10	$89	AENYA10
  $10	$89	24WS10
  $20	$169	AENYA20
  $20	$169	24WS20
  $30	$249	AENY30
  $30	$249	24WS30

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  $169.17 with the US$10 off code.

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  Bazz on 09/01/2024 - 10:50

  Be keen to know more about your home assistant/smart home set up.. I am wanting to get into it. I want some automatic roller blind motors that will work with either time, movement etc.

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    callum0001 on 09/01/2024 - 10:57

    Likewise @SteveMan I use Reolink cameras extensively across my place somewhat integrated with Home assistant for basic triggers, but, would be keen to see your configuration to see how I can incorporate AI as part of your setup.

    Imagine I would have to replace a bunch of cameras though.

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      PANiCnz on 09/01/2024 - 11:37

      If you haven't already seen it Frigate is a great tool to use as your NVR with HA. Really good integrations with HA and does great object detection.

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      SteveMan on 09/01/2024 - 12:32

      +5

      My implementations are mostly simple but, so effective (to me at least haha).
      Over the past year, I have been expanding and adding to all my automations to try make things as 'automatic' as possible. Started out simple and then slowly added more and more to them.

      I use them to trigger floodlight outside the house - using person Ai detection as all normal motion sensors keep triggering with cats or strong winds at time. using Ai detection from the Reolink cams means almost never a false detection.

      There is a strip of addressable LEDs under my TV in the lounge that will flash orange or red if someone enters my driveway or front door way - super handy heads up when home and have loud music or movies playing.

      I then have automations for wen my alarm is set, if a camera detects a person, HA takes a snapshot of that camera and sends it to me via Telegram - this is super convenient to look at and see that its just a courier or something else, only takes a couple of seconds compared to opening the app and having to load a camera feed to see what triggered it.
      As part of my alarm, I have it set in such a way that each cameras notifications can be enabled/disabled separately so I can be in the garage or the yard with out setting any alarm/notifications off but, still have the front of house and driveway be active.

      I'm most happy with the my latest automation, if my lounge TV is on and a person is detected on the driveway, a pop-up appears on the TV (android smart TV) showing a live feed of my front door cam - this took a lot to get going and still needs to be smoothed out but, very neat!

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    SteveMan on 09/01/2024 - 12:56

    I've just started playing with a roller blind and relised that it's more difficult that I though to find an acceptable way to control it year round as time/lighting changes so much.

    Using sun elevation is not ideal as that vary so much between summer and winter.
    Using time is not ideal as sun rise/set time changes so much.
    Using the trigger 'sun rise/set' wasn't satisfactory to me either as there are some rainy days that the evening light gets so low but it's still much before a 'normal' sun set time.

    If I don't shut my front blind when light starts to get low outside, you can see into my house due to TV/lights being on inside so, I'm likely more fussy than others.

    I have comprised my own open/close trigger based on the following:
    * outside LUX levels (I have x3 zigbee sensors on different sides of my house to measure outside light - different sides ans one side is bright for sun rise and other is bright for sun set, need an 'average' light).
    * Sun rise/set (offset +/- an hour, I think)
    Mostly uses outside average LUX and then sun rise/set + offset to fine tune it

    The above automatically changes an input select that controls the brightness and colour temp of all the lights in my house as well as blinds now, as well as input from room motion occupancy sensors too.

    Input select ranges from the following and repeats.
    Ligthing brightness and tmp changes at each step and the blinds [open at Med -> Bright] or [close at Bright -> Med] transitions.
    Dim -> Med -> Bright -> Med -> Dim -> Late night ->

    much more overkill than I planed but, works out extreamly well for my use case.
    No doubt in 6 mouths time I would have redone it all in some other way due to learning more..

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      fairgod on 09/01/2024 - 13:21

      Have you though about picking up sunrise/sunset data from Metservice for example? I do this for my cumulative rainfall for today/tomorrow calculation. Here's an example for Hamilton: http://metservice.com/publicData/riseSet_hamilton

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        ace310 on 09/01/2024 - 13:47

        +1

        I believe that won't be enough though depending on which side of the house you get the sun at different time of the day. As mentioned by Steve, lux levels is probably a better way to do it. That way during rainy days you will have low light which can still trigger automations based on lux values.

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          fairgod on 09/01/2024 - 14:50

          @ace310: I agree that it's more accurate with realtime sensors

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      Latex Fist on 09/01/2024 - 16:18

      Always been interested in reolink cameras due to no cloud. Where did you learn about the automation though? Got a handy resource?

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        SteveMan on 09/01/2024 - 18:45

        +1

        Unfortunately I didn't save any thing and have a memory like a sieve so, cant exactly point you in any particular direction.

        Using the Reolink integration is very straight forward and exposes most things you'll need.
        YouTube was by far the biggest help, juts spent a long time looking on there and slowly got the bets I needed to do what I want.

        YouTube Pro Tip:
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        2. wait for search to load, then click the new book mark you just made.
        3. the page will reload and not have all the other junk in the results, just videos actually related to your search.

        Bookmark text: javascript:location.href=location.href+'&sp=CAASAhAB';

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        seifer on 10/01/2024 - 13:19

        +1

        I have four Reolink cameras and they are great. The person/vehicle/pet detection works really well to remove all false positive alerts

        The only thing it's lacking is big picture notifications (notifications that include a photo of what the camera sees on it) but I used Tasker and AutoNotification to implement that myself.

        I added fairly simple but useful automation mainly via Tasker:

        • Implement different alerts based on camera and time , e.g a person detected in day time on the driveway produces a subtle alert whereas someone detected later at night in the side yard produces a much more attention grabbing one.
        • Custom cool down on the notifications that is different for each camera
        • Integration with a motion sensors to turn the PTZ camera to a different direction (saves on having to install more cameras)
        • On screen rich notifications on both the phone and the Android Smart TV

        All the recent cameras have a fairly powerful API to use: https://community.reolink.com/topic/4196/reolink-camera-api-…

        For example you can get a snapshot from a camera just by simple GET like this

        http://(camera I.P)/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=1&rs=hello&user=(user)&password=(password)&width=800&height=600

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      Bazz on 09/01/2024 - 19:54

      what product to use for the roller blind motor/device?

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        SteveMan on 10/01/2024 - 09:27

        I got my blind from a place called iSmart Windows. Work well and will be ordering more soon.

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  saxasianguy on 09/01/2024 - 10:56

  RTSP/ONVIF?

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    taeken on 09/01/2024 - 12:55

    +1

    https://reolink.com/product/fe-p/#specifications

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  justaddwater on 09/01/2024 - 12:25

  Mains power from the ceiling.

  How do you power this?

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    quasar on 09/01/2024 - 12:27

    +2

    I'd go for the PoE one (Power over Ethernet), you need a switch that supports this (or an injector) but it means the power is provided over the network cable.

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    SteveMan on 09/01/2024 - 12:37

    You can power either of these (WiFi or PoE) from a wall plug. The WiFi version comes with the power supply included but, the PoE version it is not included.
    They are about 12v-1a.
    PoE is simple if you have a Reoling NVR as that has a single cable that supplies both power and data, can also plug it into a powered network switch or PoE injector.

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      justaddwater on 09/01/2024 - 12:38

      Do you put the power/ethernet cable in the roof space?

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        SteveMan on 09/01/2024 - 13:00

        +2

        Yip, I did for my installs.

        The mounting base has a hole through the back so you can feed the cable/s up into the roof (through a 20mm hole) so it looks clean and tidy with no cables seen once installed.

        The mounting base also has a notch on the side so the cable/s can pop out the side next to the camera, then you can route the cable/s along the roof/wall inside the room - keep in mind the Ethernet plug on the cameras cable is quite chunky ~20mm so would be hard to make look tidy if routing cables inside the room