Reolink
Reolink Video Doorbell (Battery)
- Wi-Fi
Verified September 2026
Reolink's cordless option, and still Platinum-certified Works with Home Assistant — but budget for more than the £99.59 sticker price: proper local storage and the full local API need a separate Reolink Home Hub (roughly £50 extra), since standalone mode drops both. What you get for that is genuine no-drill install — mount anywhere within WiFi range, no bell wiring or transformer needed — plus HDR night vision that holds up well after dark. If you already have bell wiring, the wired WiFi model is the simpler HA setup: no hub dependency, no battery-aware polling throttling to work around.
In Home Assistant
| Control | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Battery | Sensor (%) | Reported battery charge level; updates instantly on wake events despite the throttled polling for other entities. |
| Battery state | Sensor | Discharging, charging, or charge-complete status. |
| Battery temperature | Sensor | Battery pack temperature; useful for flagging cold-weather charge/discharge issues on an outdoor-mounted doorbell. |
| Sleep status | Binary sensor | Awake/sleeping state of the camera; the recommended automation trigger since it fires instantly and avoids acting on throttled polling cycles. |
| PIR sensitivity / interval | Number | Tunes motion-wake trigger sensitivity and the minimum interval between wake events — the main lever for trading event responsiveness against battery drain. |
In Home Assistant terms, standalone isn't actually a supported configuration — the Reolink integration only ever talks to this doorbell through a Home Hub or NVR acting as a bridge, so there's no direct camera-to-HA fallback the way there is with the wired models. Once bridged, entity polling is battery-aware: camera-waking entities refresh only on a PIR wake event, after a period of silence, or on a shared multi-hour ceiling across all battery cameras sharing the hub, versus the wired doorbells' flat 60-second poll. Push-capable entities (battery percentage, battery state, sleep status) still update near-instantly outside that throttling, which makes sleep-status-becomes-awake the right automation trigger — chaining notification/snapshot actions off that single transition avoids re-triggering on every polled refresh during one visitor interaction.
Specs
- power
- battery (7000mAh, ~5 months) or 8-24V AC/24V DC wired; USB-C charging
- storage
- microSD up to 256GB; Home Hub (sold separately, built-in 64GB + 2x512GB expansion) recommended for full local recording
- ip rating
- IP65
- streaming
- Reolink local API + RTSP/RTMP/FLV; best local behaviour needs a Home Hub
- dimensions
- 160 x 48 x 29.5mm, 231g
- resolution
- 4MP (2K), 2048x2048 @ 15fps
- night vision
- infrared with HDR, no-drill battery install
- field of view
- 150° horizontal, 150° vertical, 180° diagonal
- two way audio
- dual mic + speaker, noise reduction and echo suppression