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My old ReoLink Argus was a great camera as well - it didn’t have pan/tilt/zoom, but was used at my lake lot to protect my property… and that it did! It effectively notified me of trespassers and warned them automatically through a custom siren that their presence had been reported. This caused them to leave. 6 other trailers had been broken into at the campground before the Reolink scared them off.
That said, I decided to upgrade this year to this new pan/tilt/zoom camera with auto tracking.
This camera is amazing. The video quality is top notch. It allows you to zoom in more than 40 feet on optical zoom and see a clear image. With zoom you’d be able to easily read a license plate number, even in the dark.
The pan/tilt/zoom functions are great. You can control them manually, you can setup preset focal points (and preset the zoom level), you can setup a monitor point (the main area you wish to protect). It will automatically follow intruders and zoom in as they distance themselves or as they approach from a distance.
The programmability of the camera is also second to none. You have the ability to set several different types of schedules. For instance, you can have a schedule for the auto tracking feature, a schedule for when it warns a person that they are on video, a schedule for recording video, and a schedule for when it notifies you on your phone. These features allow for a highly customizable set up.
You can also set detection zones. This allows you to filter out areas of the video that you don’t want to get alerts about. This is helpful when you’re trying to protect and area and the camera can see beyond the space, catching cars or people that might be travelling past in the periphery.
Another neat feature of this camera is that it gives the ability to tell you if the trigger event was caused by an automobile, a person or a pet. You can also use these features [automobile, person, pet] to decide when to record video or notify you. For example, you may only want to be notified if it’s a person, rather than if the car goes by or a cat or dog happens to go by.
Set up of the camera is extremely easy. It sets up within minutes. Installation of hardware is relatively simple as well.
I use my camera to protect my campsite. I have included photos and video to show the quality of image that can be obtained and to show some of the pan, tilt and zoom features.
The beginning of the video shows manually adjusting the pan tilt in zoom (which I did using a slower pan setting), while the second half the video shows camera automatically going to a predetermined location. The video ends with it returning to its monitor point.
