How secure is this? What happens to the camera stream when connected to the internet? Does the camera upload everything to a reolink server, or does the app stream directly from the camera, without anything in the middle?
If you connect the camera in LAN, it will just pull the stream from the camera. If you connect the camera remotely via UID, our P2P server will be in the middle to transfer the data. It will be safe. You can also disable the UID if you just need local access, support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007010033-What-is-Reolink-P2P-Server. For more information, you can learn from this article, reolink.com/p2p-ip-camera/#p2p%20camera.
the wifi camera is connected via ethernet. the reolink app is via phone connected via wifi. i cannot detect the camera. how do you connect the phone via ethernet? this is insane.
Hi, please connect the camera to the WiFi router that provides WiFi for your phone, then they'll be in the same network. If the camera still cannot be detected, please contact our tech support team (support.reolink.com/hc/requests/new).
Yep i gotta agree, this SHOULD be easier. Ive been running these cameras for years, and had nothing but headaches any time i changed internet provider, or required some kind of network update.
I have the Argus PT. Purchased it along with the solar charger on the understanding that I could run it off my phone via the mobile hotspot. The camera will not connect to the hotspot so is junk to me. Connects to home wifi fine but not to hotspot. Anyone want mine cheap ??
Ah, completely useless to me as i do not actually have a network system that HAS a lan port. It was apparently too hard for you to include feature that allowed the camera/phone to directly communicate trough WiFi bands to at least set the camera up trough it to connect to the network. Now i have to go get network switch and hook it directly to my pc.
Hi, there. The WiFi cameras can be set up only through a WiFi network. You can choose the WiFi connection option after scanning the QR code to complete the initialization. The whole process doesn't require network cables.
@@ReolinkCameras hmm, interesting. When i tried doing that it did not establish the connection. Maybe there was some permission the application needed, but it did not ask for or give notification about it. Phone application just gave that trying to connect notification for a while and then said that it failed. At the end i dug out my ancient modem and used it as LAN host and set the camera to use WiFi trough the pc applicatio.
@@moroit1 I double-checked with our support team. Most of our WiFi cameras can only be set up with a network cable connected. For now, only the TrackMix WiFi can be set up directly via WiFi.
