The Best Wireless Camera For Home Assistant - Reolink E1 Outdoor Pro Review

What's so special with Reolink E1 Outdoor Pro - except Pan/Tilt/Zoom, Auto tracking, two way audio, siren, motion detection, time lapse functionality?
That it works out of box with Home Assistant, and you can use your HA as a simple NVR or monitoring station. This is #1 feature I look for in cameras - and price. It has to be affordable and support running without a cloud.
All that and more is packed into this compact outdoor camera.
Reolink E1 Outdoor Pro link:
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00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Full disclosure
01:47 - Reolink Anniversary Sales with discounts
02:20 - Features of Reolink E1 Outdoor Pro camera
07:19 - Unboxing and initial setup
11:58 - RTSP, ONVIF and RTMP ports!
13:00 - Integrate Reolink E1 Outdoor Pro with Home Assistant
15:34 - Controlling camera from within Home Assistant
16:17 - Verdict on Reolink camera
17:49 - Sunset time-lapse
18:36 - Clouds time-lapse
19:05 - Sunrise time-lapse
19:51 - Clouds 4K time-lapse
20:37 - Clouds time-lapse
21:00 - Night Sky
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[@BeardedTinker]

Here is the link for this camera on Reolink store: reolink.com/product/e1-outdoor-poe/?aff=191

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

Lol, @1:15 when you paused after "my almost...", I was expecting "...honest opinion "😂 I do trust you and your experience, I just thought you were gong to joke a bit.

[@BeardedTinker]

Missed opportunity 😂😂😂

[@makeitworktech]

yes, I love this camera! Works really well as a 3d printer camera because you can PTZ to see exactly what's going on with your print. Great review!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you Aaron. Hoping to get it soon to the seaside for nice views of the coast 😉

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

What would be great, and may already exist (if anyone knows, please tell us), is a 3D printed arced rail with servo to have a camera panning sideways around the print to be able to see different angles of a print.

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

I do prefer POE for reliability. I have invested in quite a big roll of outside TP cable, and after getting a container-like guesthouse, I need to make a new entrance to the backyard since bigger transports can't pass the guesthouse. Therefore, I need at least one more camera to monitor the new entrance. That will be about 50-60 meters away from our house, so I may go for a WiFi camera there since i have more important routes for my outdoor cable already. This looks interesting for the job. Power can be taken from the barn, so no problem there. Lost of loose thoughts, as you can see (if someone is bothered reading it all😂). I do get a lot of great ideas from this channel, so I throw out my thoughts and maybe get Great ideas ideas from it❤

[@edwardvanhazendonk]

Thanks for sharing and the extensive tests, seems like a really nice product, will search for your Reolink doorbell video as well.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you - here is the link to Doorbell camera - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKKsoJZmerCEiqs

[@edwardvanhazendonk]

@@BeardedTinker found it, also a very nice product.

[@andrea00]

Thank you!! The Reolink e1 outdoor pro are on my wish list! Same for Reolink doorbell! Great video!! 😊

[@andrea00]

By the way.. nice videos of the forest! Clearly that’s your personal forest since you live in Wayne Manor! Great choice! I visited Wayne Manor when I was looking for a house, but in the end I’ve bought Stark Tower! 🤩

[@BeardedTinker]

That's actually our apartment building backyard - we have really nice backyard, just a bit too steep of a climb... Can't have everything :) How's Start Tower going for you? I was considering it, but after all of the fighting in it, skipped it due to concerns on stability :)

[@andrea00]

@@BeardedTinker What a nice view! I see a supermarket from my windows: not as beautiful as a green landscape, but really convenient when I have to buy something! Ahahah Stark Tower is awesome, but I had to replace Jarvis with home assistant in order to make my tower smarter! :D

[@vk2him]

Reolink seem to be missing one important setting - dynamic range. I have a few cameras including Reolink - the others have dynamic range adjustment and they would be able to deal with the bright sky and dark forrest. It's all done in software so there's no reason why Reolink couldn't do it. It's a shame it doesn't have POE as well ... thanks for the channel BT !!

[@BeardedTinker]

I've seen some models with Dynamic range (reolink) but they were older models (for example my old RLC410), but not on newer models. Thanks for the comment!!!

[@EsotericArctos]

Reolink do make some good cameras at the price point, though I am still a little disappointed with the night vision capabilities on most of their camears. I personally I have no real need for PZT camera's, but this is a good camera for well lit areas in situations where PZT is needed. Having the WiFi 6 capabilities is nice on a wireless camera. Not many cameras have that and a lot of wired cameras are only 100mbps ethernet, not even gigabit, so it is nice to see a manufacturer looking at higher bandwidth capabilities.

[@BeardedTinker]

I've been very happy with them. As for PTZ - I do have only 2 places where I can use them, and for both it's more of a novelty to get nice panoramas, than really security need. As for night, well - they do have one of the best night modes, but still, it can be sometimes hard to see clear face due to all of the artefacts on image.

[@AndriusNera]

I have Reolink E1 Zoom, this camera working with 10 seconds delay in HA, does Reolink E1 Outdoor Pro have delay ?

[@BeardedTinker]

There will (almost) always be a delay. HA takes stream and needs to re-stream it. YOu can see in video how fast it updates when I do left/right with camera, and also zoom. There is a delay, but definitely not 10s. Also depends on the stream quality.

[@arniespace]

Thanks! I'm looking for Home Assistant compatible camera for my backyard. Reasonably priced as well.

[@BeardedTinker]

There are a of o brands that are both OK in terms of performance, but also price is OK.. Next week I'll be releasing video on latest Reolink Duo 3 camera - but that one is a bit more expensive.

[@zyghom]

bought 5 of them and very happy. blocked them all internet - only local LAN and ftp

[@BeardedTinker]

I have cloud access currently for Doorbell and this one as I've added them to app - but yes, usually working with cameras only locally!!

[@jerryaycock]

Sure wish Reolink would get more of these for sale !!

[@BeardedTinker]

Hopefully soon...

[@martin.bartak]

Thanks for the review! I'm just looking for camera which will work with my HA and seems like we have winner for wifi version. Is there any recomendation for POE one?

[@BeardedTinker]

I've so far tested 410 (now 410A or 411A is replacement) - it works with HA nicely. Also, 510A and 811A - this has more recent video on my channel too. All of them where PoE cameras. Some are bullet style, others dome. Depends on what you prefer.

[@dkickelbick]

Thanks a lot for the review. I have a question: How does the privacy settings work? Is this a mask on the landscape or on the camera view. Here in Germany it is not allowed to observe public space, like the street in front of the house. But the Camera can move and now I wonder if I could mask the street independent of the camera position or if it masks the upper left corner of the camera e.g.

[@BeardedTinker]

Unfortunately, mask is not aware of camera movement. So you can set mask over a building/street but if you move camera, mask is at fixed position.

[@dkickelbick]

@@BeardedTinker Thanks for the answer.

[@loxaXcracker]

Thank you for making this video. Please confirm if two-way audio works correctly in the HA Reolink integration. I heard that it only works in the native Reolink app, but not in HA. Is that true?

[@BeardedTinker]

Can't confirm that - it's not possible. For now there is now way to use mic on HA to push sound to Reolink camera. You can use pre-recorded messages and trigger them, but not mic.

[@loxaXcracker]

@@BeardedTinker that's a real shame. Thank you.

[@jtcothran]

A good camera, but presets get confused and have to be manually reset and the camera can permanently lose focus making it unusable and unable to regain focus after factory reset. I like their software and setup, but tending to go more with fixed position and focus cameras from them due to these issues.

[@BeardedTinker]

I haven't noticed so far any loss in waypoint position. Did you maybe have power issues with camera? I think it needs calibration after that. But yes, it's always good idea to have PTZ as extra and not primary camera

[@l0gic23]

If you have multiples of this camera and or other (reolink) cams, can they work together to ensure coverage? If one cam is tracking someone, can a 2nd cam be auto-activated to provide additional coverage, particulary in the area the tracking cam no longer is capturing? For example, if a decoy is tracked so a bad guy can sneak onto or in a property, it woukd be great if other cams are automatically activated to cover gaps. By pre-activating they may catch more than what would be caught waiting for individual motion activation.

[@BeardedTinker]

Excellent question. What I usually do is have cameras pointing at each other plus in middle auto tracking camera. So I still have images from other cameras that are doing smart recording (recording of everything if there is event) + PTZ that tracks event. Or that's what I had before my old PTZ camera died. But depending on the NVR - that should be possible.

[@TheSprinterVan]

The stupid question? How are you able to view and control from your pc? Do I need a special program? Thank you for the very very informative video.

[@BeardedTinker]

You don't need anything special - camera has web server so you can access everything from there.

[@TheSprinterVan]

@BeardedTinker thank you for the Speedy reply and once again an excellent video I must say . I'm very interested in purchasing the camera you reviewed and have been watching every video I can possibly find. Your video is by far the most comprehensive and informative of all

[@chrisdixon5241]

Very nice looking device. I've been looking at their bullet cameras for a while as I don't need the PTZ feature, though if the price is similar I'm now thinking it might still make sense - don't have to move them just because you can and might make it easier to point exactly where I need them to. Plus if someone is moving around on your property and the camera starts tracking them it might help encourage them to leave :)

[@BeardedTinker]

I have 4-5 different cameras from them. This was my first PTZ from Reolink. It really depends on what you want to cover - but auto-tracking helps a lot with that.

[@theattorney6072]

​@@BeardedTinkerfor how Many Time does it auto track ?

[@BeardedTinker]

@@theattorney6072 until person/object is stationary for some time or moves out of range - that time is defined as return to home time on camera.

[@theattorney6072]

@@BeardedTinker Unfortunately this is a weak point in this feature, as soon as someone stops walking the camera goes back to its initial position.

[@Wayde-VA3NCA]

Does this , or other Reolink cameras, require a cloud account to operate, or do they run ( or can they run ) autonomously?

[@BeardedTinker]

All mine cameras run locally (except when I test apps from Reolink). They don't require a mobile app or cloud access/account.

[@74357175]

​@@BeardedTinkercool. And do you need the app to fully configure it, or is everything accessible from the web interface?

[@BeardedTinker]

From the top of my head, yes, everything can be configured. From standard features up to auto-tracking, waypoints, etc.

[@Wayde-VA3NCA]

@@BeardedTinker Thanks that's good news! Does Reolink also make an HA compatible doorbell camera? ( or just doorbell, and a separate camera? ) Any recommendations?

[@BeardedTinker]

I have Reonlink Doorbell camera - works awesome with HA (there is video on it from few weeks back I made). The only problem is audio - you can play pre-recorded message from HA (if I remember correctly), but not talk via HA. For that you need Reolink App.

[@danielroberts3844]

Great review thanks. Is there a version of this with PoE that also works with HA to the same extent? Many thanks.

[@BeardedTinker]

There is (non Pro ) one. It should have same entities available in HA, but I didn't try and test it.

[@Badg0r]

Are they available in black too?

[@BeardedTinker]

Not at this time as far as I know.

[@wolfganglienbacher]

To give you some honest feedback, I think you completely failed to provide a useful review of the image quality. You pointed the camera right onto the edge line of the sky with trees in the shadows. There is no surveillance camera available as of this time that will deal well with this kind of image, and honestly this also is not the kind of image I would use a camera like this for. How does it look pointed on my front yard, my parking lot, my entrance? Ho much detail can I see from whatever it catches? Can I tell apart a rat from a hedgehog? Can I recognize faces or are they completely blurred out? Nothing of this is subject in your videos, and I honestly think it should. Yes features are important for me too, but you can do that with any reolink camera. Much more important for me is image quality in regards to my use case. I like your channel, keep up the good work!

[@daylen577]

Don't use PTZ cameras, especially not once that auto-track. They're completely useless unless you set them to look at one spot and keep them there, but at that point you're paying extra for a feature you don't use. PTZ just means you have a moving blind spot, and because it gives you a false sense of coverage you increase your chances of missing something important. Just get some bullet cams (NOT dome cams, those fog up and get milky over time!) and point them at the right spots, that's the only way to get any real security benefits.

[@BeardedTinker]

This one has an auto track, as I mentioned. But don't forget the auto patrol setting where the PTZ camera moves and zooms to specific locations in intervals. So even ones with just PTZ can be used to patrol large areas.

[@daylen577]

@@BeardedTinker Yeah but the problem isn't where it's looking, it's where it's not looking. Auto patrolling 180 degrees with a 100 degree FOV means you're always missing 80 to 100 degrees of your view, and that's not good for a security camera. Way better to just get two cheaper cameras at strategic locations (covering any entrance) than to assume your PTZ can cover a wider area.

[@BeardedTinker]

Check my other comment under the video. I always cover everything with fixed cameras first. Covering each other. Than comes PTZ

[@Mnya136]

So it’s not wireless..? Why did the title say wireless if you still need to provide it mains power I feel like people say “wireless” when the device doesn’t have to attach to a power outlet or a switch.

[@BeardedTinker]

It is wireless, problem is that people are mixing wireless data transfer with solar/battery powere. There is no wireless powered camera as current technology is not capable of transferring power over the air - at least not on longer distances. It saws wireless because you don't need Ethernet cable, you just need to provide power, even when there is no switch nearby.

[@Mnya136]

@@BeardedTinker you don’t need futuristic energy transfer mechanisms to power something without hooking it up to the wall - you can use a battery. And you can even charge that battery with a built in solar panel to be truly and fully wireless, or continually charge it with a solar panel and a functionally attached solar panel (which is close enough that searches for wireless cameras will also pull up) I’m just saying lots of people will assume wireless to mean these things, ie a wire not attached to a fix point in your home. I think it would have made more sense to just refer to the camera as a “Wi-Fi” camera, then no one would make the assumption you are using the term “wireless” as most people would

[@Mnya136]

@@BeardedTinker in any case it makes sense and it is technically wireless with respect to audio/video output. But I think nowadays atleast colloquially people will associate the term “wireless camera” with one that transfers audio/video wirelessly and also doesn’t have to be attached to a fixed point to be powered

[@BeardedTinker]

Yes, but actually no - those will always be wireless solar camera or wireless battery camera. I haven't seen any company selling them otherwise. Again wired vs wireless is used for data transfer, while PoE, battery, solar, mains are for power distribution.

[@BeardedTinker]

Ohh and one more thing - if you go for wireless solar or wireless battery cameras, those are usually (in 99.9%) not real cameras. All (99.9%) battery cameras don't feature 24/7 video transmission. They are activated by motion or events. That also means that they can not be used with NAS/NVR as they require real cameras that are not just capturing still images or small clips of video. This is due to high power usage for constantly streaming cameras over WiFi.

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