Wireless Outdoor Security Camera Lumus 2K, Upgraded 4MP Spotlight Color Night Vision, 2.4/5GHz Dual-Band WiFi Plug in Camera, Smart Person/Vehicle/Animal Detection, Two-Way Talk, Local Storage

Update: Now that we've had it a minute, we're still pleased. It is a little hiccupy on Google home, but we're pretty ok with that. To be fair, it interrupts the music streaming to display the camera anyway, so we haven't done it that way much at all. The notifications are usually prompt on both of our android phones. When there is a delay, I'm pretty sure it has to due with the sleep status of the phone and not with the camera, though that's really just my theory. The picture quality is great. Being able to block sections out of the motion detection has worked nearly perfectly - the angle of the sun does affect some shadows stretching farther than what i have blocked in the morning, but I haven't decided whether to draw over that part, leave it be, or set up times when notifications are off. It's obviously not a big problem or I would have fixed it. So anyway, that's the update. We haven't needed to use the speaker or microphone, but we did test them. Neat things...you have to have the volume on your phone on to be able to hear the person! (Duh, I know. I always have mine turned off, though, so I just didn't think about it at first). Also downloaded the PC version, which was easy to set up and streams perfectly with no hiccups. Very handy while working, since I can pull the camera up that way and not interrupt my streaming music. And the light is very bright, according to my husband, who has to leave super early in the am for work each day. ;) Original review: Snagged this camera on a flash sale, but I had already mostly decided on this brand for good reviews, reasonable pricing, storage options, and Google compatibility. Before installing it, I plugged it in and set it up to make sure everything would work. No need to drill holes in the house until you verify it's not DOA! Setup if the camera and app was super easy, though there wasn't really anything in the instructions about it. The hard part was belly crawling through our super tiny attic multiple times to map, plan, and fish wires. The plug doesn't appear outdoor rated, but it didn't make sense to us to plug it in outside, anyway. I mean, then someone could just unplug it, duh. So in the teeny tiny attic I went. After several trips and most of the afternoon, we finally got the wires where we wanted. Since I had already set it up to test, all that was left was to mount the camera, plug it in, take a ton of tylenol, have some beer, and wait until the next day to aim it. As far as mounting, it's a nice and easy base, and they even include a little paper template to drill the holes for anchors. The night picture is before going back out to aim the camera, but you get the idea. The field of view is great. The motion detection is adjustable. Neat feature in there, too- you can mark off areas where you don't want it to detect motion. I've marked off the top right corner where it's still picking up the edge of the road and the paw print dangling toward the top left. Turned the motion detection down a few times to eliminate notifications for shadows, etc. Less than a day in and I think I've just about got it fine tuned to pick up a car in the driveway or a person walking up to the house, but to ignore headlights passing, leaves moving, etc. Picture quality seems great to me. I haven't viewed it on the TV yet, but it's more than enough resolution on a phone or Google hub display. I've played with saving pictures and videos. I've seen plenty of screenshots taken from a variety of other camera which were grainy, poorly lit, etc, and you wouldn't be able to identify anyone. These are much more clear than most I've seen, in case we were to need to ID a person or anything. Also, motion push notifications are prompt. The spotlight is plenty bright enough. The night vision is clear, both in grayscale and when it automatically switches to color. Pleased with all aspects.

Very good camera. I love the brand. Great quality. Easy to setup. Need to get a SD card but it is very good storage. Good for security and high quality. It has a light that triggers when it senses motion at night and also has a built in microphone or a quick saftey alarm to scare off unwanted activity.

I bought this camera about a year ago and it has worked really well. I use it w a 128GB mem card and it stores several days of motion-detected videos in a pretty busy areas without any issues. The video is clear and even at night it is better than a Ring camera I also own. If I had to cost it a point anywhere it would be the app, which while very good, doesn't have the ability to skip forward / backwards 10 or 15 seconds or something like that. It makes trying to narrow down when something happened a bit tedious. (i.e. say I wanted to know when someone knocked on the door and I know its between 1pm - 3pm, it could take a while depending on number of motion triggers to find that moment) You can increase replay speed but sometimes you miss things if speed is 8x or 16x. But besides that one small inconvenience, it is a really good camera and the price can't be beat. So why am I writing this review a year after I bought it? Because it stopped working and right before I was going to buy another one, I figured I'd see if it was under warranty.. didn't really hope for much since the camera was only like $40 or so but not only was it under warranty, I put in the ticket Friday night and was getting emails from their support by Saturday morning.. really excellent support. SO I give this camera 5/5 stars due to value / money and the way this company backs their product.

I now have a 13 cameral Reolink system on my home ( I have a LOT of corners ). Especially liked this model for the spotlight and 2-way talk feature. Unlike my other cameras which are POE, this one is wifi and fully independent of my NVR. Camera with motion detection and night vision works GREAT - check! Spotlight is bright for a unit so small - Check! 2-way talk, well, not good. We have a horrible echo coming from the camera. Person outside the house comes in very clear but the voice coming from the unit to that person outside is very garbled and echoes. At one point it was echoing the person speaking to the camera outside the house. BUMMER. Pros: Great camera and bright LED spotlight for the price. Very Nice. Con: 2-way talk completely useless due to a known issue with Samsung Phones. I suggested that Reolink inform buyers on amazon of this but their response was that this issue was talked about on their forums on their site. Well, if I wanted to shop on their site, I would be there, not on amazon. Overall, I am happy with Reolink products and most of their service. I did have the option to return the camera but as stated above, the features that do work for me and the price point, I was willing to live without the 2-way talk.

Ordered this camera and a large SD card for local storage plus 7 day free cloud recording as backup. Installed it over the driveway so it only needs to record a few events a day. Captures motion just fine, video quality is great, and has plenty of space to record everything. App works as intended; so far all is good, right? Sounds like a 5 star camera and service, doesn’t it. Keep reading and you’ll understand why you’ll despise this, but not until after the return window closes. The biggest selling feature that I liked for this camera is that it has 7 days of cloud recording for free. It’s a differentiator as other vendors don’t have this. Because I installed an SD card in it, the only reason I’d need the cloud recording is if the camera gets stolen or destroyed by someone, where I can capture that event and not lose it (because the SD card is in the physical camera and not in an external box like my old Sansung camera this replaced). Installed it and activate it and all was fine. I was pleasantly as to how well it worked. Please note that this has a 30 day return window with Amazon before you are stuck with it….but if it works, why would one want to return it? So far so good. But here’s why. I installed it and activates the cloud recording. Security cameras for most folks are are usually set them and forget them. You DON’T want to have to mess with the camera or the app again unless there is an event you care about and need to check on. And hopefully that is never. However before the 30 day window closed after installing, I start getting receiving annoying emails that my BASIC cloud plan will expire soon and that I have to login select a new plan. What? Why? I don’t want to have to login and change anything, so I figured after it “expired” it would auto renew. Nope! The 30 day window after I activated the Basic 7 Day cloud plan (note I also have an SD card) the Basic Plan expired and stopped working. And it did NOT auto renew. Cloud recording is now dead unless I take the action to login and manually renew for a term of 30 days. This happens 1 day after my return window closed. So then I have to login to the app (something I wanted to avoid like the plague) to reselect the same Basic plan which will expire again in 30 days requiring me to login again in 30 days to reselect it. Why Reolink? You had a win here with a device and service that differentiated from the competition, so I thought I’d give it a try. And they messed up the concept of subscription. People don’t want to have to login every 30 days to subscribe manually to another 30 day service. Have it set as indefinite or auto renew (you already have a max storage and max 7 day recording period defined…why are you unsubscribing and expiring the service after 30 days). And of course you won’t find this out until 1 day after your return window closes. This device has 5 star potential which drops to 1 star after 30 days. This turns from “what a great camera and service” to “what a disappointment” after 30 days of ownership. Yes I went in and renewed it manually after being constantly nagged and after it expired and stopped, but nobody want to have to repeat these steps manually every month for something that one should be able to simply install, setup, and touch only when needed. See pic of the app that expires and requires manual renewals every 30 days. What a disappointment.

Excellent- easy to install. Cable length was generous. Setting was a breeze with lots of options like being able to flip the vertical so I can mount upside down from a rafter. First night I got a lot of recordings from vehicles going by but you can paint a non detection zone and this has stopped - what a great feature.

“I was looking for something affordable but reliable, and this Reolink Lumus totally delivered! Setup was a breeze—just plug it in, connect to WiFi, done. The 2K quality is sharp during the day, and at night? Wow—the spotlight kicks in and gives full color vision, no more blurry black-and-white. AI detects people/vehicles perfectly, so no fake alerts from cats or wind. Two-way talk works great for scaring off strangers, and the siren is loud enough to wake the neighborhood! Waterproof, no monthly fees (local storage rocks), and it looks sleek on my wall. After a month, zero issues—five stars, best security buy I’ve made!”

Literally never works when I need it to. It'll work when I check it for random fun, to see what my yard looks like. But then as soon as I'm expecting a package or someone to come by for an important meeting, "Connection failed." Tried on 5ghz and 2.5ghz, same problem. As soon as I get home and join the same wifi network, suddenly it works perfectly fine. I have a reolink argus on the same network that never gives me issues, so I know it's not my wifi. I've removed and readded the camera in the app, I've unplugged it and plugged it back in, ive tried every "fix" I could find online and I still have issues. Can't tell if it's app or camera specific but it's the same company and the other camera type doesn't seem to have this issue. When it works, I think it's just fine. Good quality and mounting hardware is sufficient. But it hardly ever works when I need it to. Also, says color night vision, but all the night vision video it's ever captured is very clearly not in color, so not sure why it's advertised this way when it's all black and white video