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Works fine IMO. I get about half a second of lag, and have no issues having conversations with people.
I don't notice a particular difference between having it connected wired or via Wi-Fi. Of course if I am connecting via my phone when away from home, there's a little extra lag.
That said, I also have a range of Reolink Wi-Fi cameras and 2 way audio works fine on them too. The older battery cameras are slightly slower - likely due to being on 2.4GHz. Notably the 2.4Ghz cameras were flakey and laggy until I reconfigured a dedicated clearer channel for them.
Reading online most people don't seem t have an issue, so the ones that do are probably dealing with networking problems.
"Notably the 2.4Ghz cameras were flakey and laggy until I reconfigured a dedicated clearer channel for them" <— any online links to assist with how to do this?
The basic idea is that each 2.4Ghz WiFi network operates on one of 14 channels. A channel is a band of radio frequencies around the 2.4Ghz range. Each channel has some overlap with a couple of channels either side. Other WiFi networks that are close together also use one of these same channels, and they can interfere with each other. This is most problematic where there are lots of WiFi routers located close together, such as an apartment building.
Think of it like neighbouring opera singers, each singing loudly from the middle of their own apartment. From your own apartment, you can probably hear all of their voices to some extent. The ones that are closest will probably be loudest, and you might be able distinguish each voice because they have different pitches - some have higher voices, and some deeper. But all together, it's very loud and confusing because they all blend into each other and it's just noise.
You can do a 'survey' of which channels are currently in use using a phone app. This will show the channel used by your own WiFi router, and those of your neighbours. In order to get the best signal for your own WiFi network, you can set your own WiFi router's channel - hopefully, there's a gap and you can select one that has very little overlap with other nearby routers.
More reading and some diagrams here: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/179344-how-to-boost-you…
I have the argus 2, do you have any recs for improving it? There's a good 3-4 second delay and it is extremely distorted
Wifi shouldn't be an issue as I have 3 mesh routers and pretty good speeds, unless there's a setting I have incorrect
Yeah ok - I have an Argus 2 and testing just now delay is under a second. It's 2.4GHz only so not as good as newer 5Ghz Wi-Fi cameras, but certainly you should be able to improve things.
Make sure you are running the latest firmware - For the Argus 2, it is upgraded via the app.
I found the Argus 2 not great on my mesh network. It works, but often I had trouble connecting to the camera. But once connected it was solid. My camera is outdoors with a solar panel, so it may be getting confused between mesh nodes.
I found it much more reliable on a dedicated 2.4GHz network. I used an old router set up as a dedicated AP, but you can just set up an extra network with your existing routers. Make the new SSID 2.4GHz only, and ideally not mesh. Then connect the Argus 2 to the closet router.
You will want to set your channel bandwidth to 20MHz (not 40MHz) as while it reduces max throughput (which you don't need anyway), it will improve latency. You can download Wi-Fi scanner apps to try and see what channels are most congested, but generally your best bet is channel 1, 6, or 11 (or 13 instead of 11). So often the easiest thing to do is just try each channel and see if it helps.
If you are still running into issues, I'd suggest also setting your mesh network to use 20Mhz 2.4GHz channels, in case it is causing interference.
The cloud monthly fees for 5 cameras is quite well priced compared to other brands like ring.
do you guys reckon there's a newer model coming out soon?
No. This is a relatively recent released product, and certainly isn't due for an upgrade just yet.
Reolink doorbells have been in short supply because of logistics and/or manufacturing issues for quite a while.
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How's the two way audio on these? I have the regular wifi cameras and it is completely unusable