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Security Cameras
The Reolink cameras I actually run at home — separate from the trail cam I use for camping and the backyard.
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REOLINK RLC-520A PoE Security Camera, 2-Pack
This is the exact camera pack I'm running at home — hardwired PoE, no battery to worry about. One covers the front door, and the other just went up in the backyard pointed at my bird and critter feeding area. Once that one catches some good footage, I'll post it here on the blog.
See the microSD card I use for local storage →See the camera that watches my driveway → Check it out
SanDisk Ultra microSD Card, 64GB
This is what I use to log video locally on the camera itself, so I can pull footage straight from the Reolink app without needing a separate NVR. 140MB/s, and 64GB is plenty of buffer for a camera recording on motion.
See the Reolink camera I run it in at home →See the higher-res camera it also goes in →See the driveway camera it also goes in → Check it out
REOLINK RLC-820A 4K PoE Security Camera
This is the one we use for the front door entry at my business partner's house. Higher quality than my home setup because it's mounted farther away, and we may have to use it to identify somebody someday — worth paying up for the resolution on a camera like that.
See the microSD card it uses for local storage → Check it out
REOLINK RLK8-520D4-5MP 8-Channel NVR Kit
This is the complete kit we picked for my business partner Gene's house — 4 wired PoE cameras plus an 8-channel NVR with a 2TB hard drive, so everything records centrally instead of relying on individual microSD cards. He's got most of our equipment stored at his house, so getting the coverage right there matters a little more. We added the RLC-820A above onto the same NVR for the front door specifically, since that spot needed sharper resolution than the cameras that come in this kit.
See the upgraded front-door camera on the same system → Check it out
REOLINK RLC-842A 4K PoE Camera
This is the one that watches my driveway. I ordered it June 3, 2022, and it's been working well ever since — going on 4+ years now. 4K with 5X optical zoom, so it can pick out detail across the whole driveway instead of just covering the area right under the camera, and IK10 vandal-proof housing for anything mounted at ground level where it's reachable.
See the SD card I use for local storage →This one's currently unavailable — see the newer replacement model → Check it out
REOLINK RLC-843A 4K PoE Camera
This looks like the newer version of the driveway camera above — same 4K resolution, 5X optical zoom, and IK10 vandal-proof housing, plus it adds spotlights, color night vision, and two-way talk. Haven't run this exact model myself, but it's the one Amazon points to now that my current driveway camera is unavailable.
See the driveway camera it replaces → Check it out