To expand on a previous poster asking about local only devices in general…

Has anyone found a reliable local only doorbell? I’ve been meaning to replace my Ring doorbell ever since Amazon bought them. I finally bought a Reolink WiFi doorbell and it looks great and was really easy to set up without Internet or their app, BUT…

It doesn’t work. Capture to FTP gives me nice clear images but the videos are corrupt, maybe truncated. I can’t even open them with VLC.

I tried installing an SD card and then moving the SD card to my laptop. The videos on there play for a few seconds and then freeze.

Reolink support hasn’t responded to any of my questions, which is another minus for them.

I did notice that the unit seems to run very hot. Did I just get a dud?

So are there any alternatives? Should I just try buying another of these? At least returns (Amazon, Walmart) are easy.

  • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.ioEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I used Unifi Video for a long time until they moved away from letting me run the NVR on my own VM/hardware in the Uniti Protect world.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I was real real pissed about that. I have hundreds of TB of storage but I can’t use any of it because they limited it to their shitty NVR

      • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.ioEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        When my current Unifi APs die, I’ll probably look at moving to MikroTik for WiFi. I’m still salty about them not supporting anything but their appliance.