Reolink Elite Floodlight Security Camera

[Music] Mark here and today we're going to talk about the Elite Flood Light by Real Link. So, what did I get when I received the package? Uh, I had a little bit of help from my cat Kota. Uh, so, uh, he helped me out with the unboxing here for a little bit. Uh, and what I first received was a cable, a cord. So, this cord is meant to wire up to a plug-in outlet. Uh, now you don't need to go this route. You can actually hook this up to a junction box, either one that you're planning on installing or maybe you have one already installed that is uh a light for your house. Uh, you can remove the light and then install this unit to that. Uh, so getting to the box, uh, what do we have inside? Of course, we have the decals stickers and we have the instruction package. Uh, and then inside we have a small box and the camera. So, the small box contains uh a tightening tool as well as hardware uh for the installation and of course a USBA to USB C cable. So, this is used for the initial setup. Uh, so you'll want to before you install that, plug that in, plug that into your uh, uh, power source and then use the app to install it. Of course, the app's pretty easy. Um, alls you need is a QR code. Uh, on all of Real Link cameras, it's somewhere usually on the back of the camera. Uh, and it's a pretty straight through operation. Now, the last thing, of course, in there is the camera itself. Uh, and then on the back of the camera, you have a mounting plate that's on there. Uh, so you want to first mount that mounting plate, get all that sorted. Uh, and then once you're ready to go, you um mount the camera to it. And there's two screws that secure it in place. It's a pretty easy installation. Uh but I do urge uh that if you are working with electrical and you're not comfortable with it to please reach out to an electrician uh who can help you out with that portion of it. So the resolution of this camera is 5120x 1552 uh 8 megapixels at 20 frames per second. Uh the field of view spread is of course 180° by 59° vertical. So, you do get a full shot and it's nice for the side of a house. Uh, so you can see pretty much everything. If you had four of these cameras, for example, you would have overlap on a lot of areas of your house, uh, and you'd be able to essentially see everything. Uh, they do also make the Argus 4 Pro, which does have color night vision without the flood lights. Uh, so the flood light ones you would probably use maybe on your back door or on your garage uh somewhere of that nature and then you could go with the Argus 4 Pro uh to get the other areas uh that don't necessarily need a flood light. Real Link now has their new AI and it is called Rio Nura. And what it does is it uses all of the footage in your database uh and it scrubs it for any information that you're requesting. So, for example, I did a search for uh a red vehicle. That's all I put in, just a red vehicle. And what I got from that is multiple clips showing all of the different red vehicles that it had detected. Uh if you have someone in a blue shirt, maybe it was somebody snooping around your yard in a blue shirt, then all you have to do is type in blue shirt into the search and voila, there you go. You've got all the clips of people that were in blue shirts. With that in mind, there are a number of geo fencing technologies that are also in this camera. Uh, so here on the farm, I don't have to worry too much about that. Uh, because I'm not seeing neighboring properties. But let's say you live in a residential area in a city and you have a sidewalk and you have the road and you have even houses across the road. uh you don't want to be detecting things that are outside the boundaries of your area. If somebody were to cross that line, the camera would then activate and start recording or turn on the flood lights if that's set. Now, getting back to the flood lights, uh they do have multiple settings. You can do a dust till dawn uh if you want just lights on all the time. Uh they can be on a timed circuit. So you can have them come on and off at certain times during the night. Uh and then there's also the detection. So motion tracking uh as soon as somebody is motion tracked on the camera, the lights will then come on uh free for a predetermined amount of time that you can set in the app. The flood lights are 3000 lumen. And they can be adjusted both in brightness and in color temperature. So you can adjust it from 3,000 Kelvin to 6,000 Kelvin. Uh meaning from a cool light to a warmer light. And you can set this up to maybe match your preferences. Maybe you have a certain color temperature light on your house uh that you want to match it up with. So recording and playback. Now, there's three different options here. The first one is, of course, a micro SD card. Uh, this camera will accept up to a 512 gigabyte card. Uh, that can be inserted into the camera and do local recording there. Now, there's always question about what happens if somebody steals my camera, then all that footage is gone because, of course, it's in the micro SD card that's in the camera. So, there are two other options. Uh the other option is you can have a hub, a real link hub or an NVR, a network video recorder. Uh and you can pair your wireless and wired cameras all to your NVR or your hub and you can safely store all of your data inside your home or business, keeping it safe. Somebody steals your camera, they're not stealing the data. Uh so those two options are free. There are no extra fees after you purchase the camera. Uh there are no cloud storage fees unless you want that option. So of course it is an option. They can store data on their cloud. Of course there is uh a small fee for that. But the other two options are completely free, which is why I really like the real link system. Uh cuz you buy the camera, you spend that money. Maybe you buy an SD card or a hub or NVR, you're set. Uh you don't have to make any more payments. You own the system, you own your own personal storage cloud, and everything is secure. So, how does the audio sound? Well, I did an audio test. Unfortunately, it was a little windy, but that's actually not a bad thing. Uh because you don't want to do recording in perfect environments. You want it in a real environment. Uh so here's the footage that I took of the audio test at 25 and 50 ft away from the camera. Sound test at 50 ft. Sound test at 25 ft. So, I did some recording at night just to kind of get an idea of what we're looking at for night vision. It does have IR camera lights. So, it will record infrared at night without the flood lights. if the flood lights are on. Of course, that IR turns off and you get full color vision. Uh, so here's some of that clip that I took at night. So, that's it for the Real Link WiFi Flood Light. I hope you enjoyed this video, and I hope it answered all of the questions that you have about it. If not, please leave a comment down below in the comment section, and I will uh answer your questions as best I can. Take care and we hope to see you again. Bye. [Music]