Reolink
Reolink Elite WiFi (Dual-Lens 180°)
- Wi-Fi
Verified September 2026
A dual-lens 180° panoramic alternative to the PTZ TrackMix — good for covering a whole driveway or garden in one static frame instead of relying on motorised tracking. It adds Wi-Fi 6 for a sturdier link on congested 2.4GHz networks, and ships with a built-in spotlight and siren for active deterrence, not just recording. Note the Elite now runs pricier than the Duo 2 WiFi it succeeds (£139.99 vs £103.99 when the Duo 2 was last live), so weigh the panoramic coverage and Wi-Fi 6 upgrade against that premium. Same fully-local RTSP/ONVIF path via HA's native reolink integration either way. Best suited to driveways, gardens, or wide frontages where one static wide-angle frame beats a narrower single-lens camera.
In Home Assistant
| Control | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Camera | Camera | Single main-stream entity exposing the fully merged ~180° image, with a separate lower-resolution substream entity for lighter-weight NVR/dashboard use. |
| Person/vehicle/pet detection | Binary sensor | AI detection sensors evaluated against the whole stitched frame, avoiding the per-lens detection gaps seen on some earlier dual-lens Reolink hardware. |
| Detection sensitivity | Number | Per-detection-type sensitivity sliders (person, vehicle, pet) that tune AI trigger thresholds across the combined wide frame. |
| Siren | Siren | Onboard siren with configurable volume and duration, triggerable directly from automations built on the wide-frame detection sensors. |
| Signal strength | Sensor | Wi-Fi signal quality, worth watching given the camera's higher combined-stream bitrate versus single-lens Reolinks on the same link. |
Unlike some earlier Reolink dual-lens cameras where HA created two separate lens devices and detection sensors for the second lens sometimes never populated, this generation's reolink integration stitches both sensors into one device with a single merged main-stream camera entity, plus a lower-bitrate substream for cheaper preview or NVR pulls. That single wide frame is a real asset for automations: one person-detected or line-crossing binary sensor can cover the entire driveway-to-garden boundary, instead of needing to OR two lens-specific sensors together like on older dual-lens architectures. The tradeoff is bandwidth — running both the stitched HD stream and the SD substream simultaneously (e.g. to Frigate and the HA dashboard at once) pushes noticeably more data over Wi-Fi than a single-lens Reolink, so weak signal or channel congestion is more likely to show up as stream stutter.
Specs
- wifi
- Wi-Fi 6, 2.4/5GHz (802.11ac/ax)
- audio
- two-way audio, built-in mic + speaker
- power
- mains (plug-in, 12V/2A)
- siren
- built-in siren, triggered on detection
- storage
- microSD up to 512GB
- placement
- outdoor
- spotlight
- 3x 2W LED, 6500K, colour night vision
- streaming
- RTSP + ONVIF, native Reolink local API
- dimensions
- 153 x 128 x 57mm, 574g
- resolution
- 4K 8MP dual-lens, 180° panoramic (5120x1552 combined, 20fps)
- night vision
- IR up to 30m (6x 850nm LEDs); colour night vision via spotlight
- weatherproofing
- IP67