New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

[Jim_OS]

This has probably been discussed on the previous 94 pages, but I didn't want to go through them all again.

I'm using:
Reolink Video Doorbell WiFi (D340W)
Hardware: DB_566128M5MP_W
Firmware: v3.0.0.6460_2605211897

and I've now installed the latest firmware (May 2026). Even with the older firmware version, I had the problem that the day/night switching and vice versa repeatedly triggered motion detection and thus recording. This is something I've never experienced with my Dahua cameras and, of course, don't want.

I've already reduced the motion detection sensitivity to 9, but that didn't really help. I still have the sensitivity for person, vehicle, and pet detection set to 50 because I don't think these settings affect recordings during the day/night switching. Or do they?

Is there any useful setting to prevent recordings during the day/night switch?

Instead of various screenshots from the Reolink app, here are the relevant settings via the Reolink integration in Home Assistant.



By the way: The timeouts I mentioned above when accessing the Doorbell WebGUI still occur for me even with the newer firmware version. As mentioned previously, I suspect that the CPU simply cannot cope when "too many" devices access or are connected to the doorbell at the same time. In my case, these are:

• Reolink App
• Dahua NVR
• Home Assistant

If a client also accesses the WebGUI, it seems to be "too much" for the Doorbell. But as long as there aren't any good alternatives to the Reolink Doorbell WiFi that also offer and fulfill the points I mentioned in #1880, I'll have to continue living with the Reolink Doorbell Wifi.

 

[David L]

How is the Dog or Animal motion detection? Just curious...

 

[Jim_OS]

Hi Dave

I don't quite understand your question. Do you want to know how I configured them – which is already visible in the screenshot – or how well or poorly they work with the current setting (49%)?

Dogs don't roam around my property, but cats seem to be detected quite well – at least at night. However, I can't really judge this yet, as I haven't been using the Reolink Doorbell in practice for very long.

 

[David L]

Hi Dave

I don't quite understand your question. Do you want to know how I configured them – which is already visible in the screenshot – or how well or poorly they work with the current setting (49%)?

Dogs don't roam around my property, but cats seem to be detected quite well – at least at night. However, I can't really judge this yet, as I haven't been using the Reolink Doorbell in practice for very long.

Thanks, yeah was just curious how good it detects. I use AI in Blue Iris so was just wondering...CodeProject.AI works pretty good for me...

I see 2025-03-12 they added AI-Animal support in firmware 4662_2503122270 & 4662_2503122271

 

[Jim_OS]

As I said, I can't really say much about it yet, except that there are recordings with "Animal" in the recordings, and I can see recordings of cats there. But I can't really judge how well or poorly cats - or other animals of that size - are recognized, because I don't know when which animals are around the doorbell. In other words, are animals really recognized reliably, or more by chance?

Currently, there's also the problem that I can only view the Reolink recordings via the Reolink app and not via Home Assistant, because there seems to be a bug with the HA Reolink integration. The Reolink integration accesses the SD card in the Reolink doorbell, and this only works once. As soon as you try to open another recording, the connection freezes,

Logger: homeassistant.components.reolink.views
Quelle: components/reolink/views.py:123
Integration: Reolink (Dokumentation, Probleme)
Erstmals aufgetreten: 17:14:25 (2 Vorkommnisse)
Zuletzt protokolliert: 17:15:11

Reolink playback error while getting mp4: Server disconnected
Reolink playback error while getting mp4: Timeout on reading data from socket

and the Reolink doorbell has to be restarted before the HA Host can re-establish a connection. Simply restarting the HA Host isn't enough.

By the way: The AI detection (person, vehicle, pets) of the Reolink Doorbell isn't available via ONVIF either. With my Dahua NVR, to which the Reolink Doorbell is integrated via ONVIF, there are only the standard motion alerts and nothing about people, vehicles, or animals/pets. That means the cat recordings don't appear on the Dahua NVR at all. But okay, I didn't expect anything different with the Reolink + Dahua NVR and ONVIF combination. But I still wanted to mention it in connection with your question about animals.

Edit and PS: I'll be offline again until tomorrow.