Reolink 8ch 2TB NVR + 4x 8MP Cams $378.02 or 4x 5MP Cams $274.10 @ AliExpress Reolink Official Store

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As part of AliExpress 11.11 sales, the following NVR and camera packages can be had for ATL pricing, if you tick all the boxes. “All the boxes”includes taking advantage of their price drop for singles day, an automatic seller discount, using an AliExpress code, a Reolink Direct code and a coins balance which you may or may not have. It does not include up to $60 more which you may receive from your cashback provider of choice if it is deemed eligible - so the final price may be even cheaper. Given the amount of coupons and discounts already being applied to a sale price item, it’s entirely possible that the transaction will be deemed ineligible, so treat it like a bonus, if you get it.

As briefly as possible, Reolink are a perennial OzBargain favourite due to their solid build quality, bang for buck and zero subscription fees. You can buy direct, from eBay or Amazon, or for a considerable discount from AliExpress. And because they are shipped from NSW, no additional GST is payable on the quoted AliExpress price, albeit they are priced in US dollars by default, so pay in $US with you currency conversion fee free credit card for best rates.

They’ve got a heap of cams, NVRs and combos on sale, but for the purposes of this post on concentrating on one-stop shop NVR and 4 cam packages. And because it’s OzBargain, I’m focusing on the value segment of the market. These are midrange 8MP and 5MP cams which are a couple years old - so are no competition for the latest 12MP and 16MP advanced commercial cams, but are accessible via the NVR or phone app by default and include microSD card slots in addition to the NVR storage. They are reliable, well built with mature firmware including AI functionality with Car/Person/Pet detection and hit that resolution vs file size sweet spot to ensure you have sufficient detail to identify intruders without exhausting the modest but upgradeable 2TB drive too quickly.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001631504351.html
2TB RLK 8CH NVR + 4 x 820A 8MP Turret cameras = US$380.96
Minus $10 seller discount, minus $20 store coupon REOLINK1695 minus $60 AliExpress coupon minus 4191 coins = US$249.05 = AU$378.21

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000727863806.html
2TB RLK 8CH NVR + 4 x 520D4 5MP Turret cams = $US270.00
Minus $10 seller discount, minus $10 store coupon REOLINK1694 minus $40 AliExpress coupon minus 2970 coins = US$180.30 = AU$274.10

Note, in the 8MP range, there are three other choices in turret and bullet designs. It’s generally a matter of personal preference, but turrets generally work better when mounted under soffits, whereas bullets generally work better mounted off walls. The two slightly cheaper options are crippled to ensure they only work with the included NVR, so pay the extra $15 bucks to get the 810A (bullet) or 820A (turret) over the neutered B800 or D800 options.

Granted, you’ll pay a little more if you use the above links and do not have the necessary coins to max out the discount. You can’t link to the coins page in AliExpress app, so ensure you navigate to coins to get the $11 discount rather than the max 5% it caps out at on their main linked page.

Hopefully you’ll qualify for the extra cashback too. If I do, a 4 x 8mp cam + 2TB NVR will have cost me just $328. It’s my intent to use the great reddit support group below to use it as the basis for two seperate systems - one for the folks using the NVR plus 2 of the cams, and one for myself using a SFF minipc running free NVR software Frigate using the other 2 cams. I’ve already got some Duos and Trackmix’s that I’ll use for the different setups thanks to previous OzBargain deals, but there’s some great prices available for other cameras for anyone else looking to max out their other 4 vacant channels. Check out The Hook Up’s channel on YouTube for some great comparisons of their entire camera lineup.

www.reddit.com/r/reolinkcam/comments/133vod7/welcome_to_the_…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBRTveD9_w

Apologies for the long blurb - I’ve done my best to condense some of the most valuable info of garnered over the past six months since picking up my first Reolink Argus Solar cams after previous deals. Welcome to the wonderful world of CCTV and NVRs…

Original Coupon Deal


Voucher update

For store voucher, use REOLINK1697 for US$20 off US$269+

For AliExpress voucher, use AU1165 for US$40 off US$269+ or use OZAF90 for US$60 off US$359+.

Assuming you’ve got max coins, the 8MP bundle remains at AU$368 and the 5MP drops by a further $15 to AU$263.

And best of all, plenty of folk have had (initial) cashback success with the upsized rebates tracking and scheduled to deliver further rebates of around $50. Even though I’m almost out of coins, think I’ll buy another system at these amazing prices…

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Comments

  • +1

    Ended up paying $351.02 inc cashback.

    • +2

      Nice work! Good result after paying slight overs initially.

      Shopback didn't work at all for me, but did for an extra camera I bought an hour later using the exact same process on the iPhone - at all of $5.86!

      I clearly tempted fate when suggesting in the original post that cashbacks were a roll of the dice. Glad to hear that yours came through…

  • Trying to checkout "some items are out of stock. Refresh the page…"

    Yet all the items I'm trying to purchase show in stock. Any suggestions?

  • Do you enter the REOLINK1695 code at checkout, or somewhere else? I get the message "This coupon code is for single use only and can't be used here"

  • I have tye 2TB NVR and 4 camera systek plus doorbell.i can vouch for it as had no hiccup since installed a year ago .everything just works all the time .my only complain woukd be the doorbell not having answer from phone feature that most comp6etotors do ! Very basic feature that was advertised to be available in latest firmware but i could not get it working

    • It works on my doorbell. In fact I don't have the NVR so that's the primary way I used the doorbell.

      • Do you need to have all the notification ON for it to send the ringing to your phone ? Because i want it to ring my phone only when someone rings and leave me alone about every moving object !

  • Is REOLINK1695 working?

  • Voucher update

    For store voucher, use REOLINK1697 for US$20 off US$269+

    For AliExpress voucher, use AU1165 for US$40 off US$269+ or use OZAF90 for US$60 off US$359+.

    Assuming you’ve got max coins, the 8MP bundle remains at AU$368 and the 5MP drops by a further $15 to AU$263.

    And best of all, plenty of folk have had (initial) cashback success with the upsized rebates tracking and scheduled to deliver further rebates of around $50. Even though I’m almost out of coins, think I’ll buy another system at these amazing prices…

    • Sighs.i just purchased it without the $20 discount. Thibking to cancel my order and buy again… sighs

    • OZAF90 not working

      • Yes it is. Minimum spend $359.

    • Where do I enter the store voucher code?

      • +1

        Store and Ali codes can both be entered on the final checkout screen, under “Promo codes”.

        • Thank you. For some reason it wasn't working for me before - but it's working now.

    • Getting an error trying to add AU1165

      It says

      Sorry, the coupon you entered is based on a first come first served basis.

      Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here?

  • My shopback didn’t track sadly. Forgot to disable ABP though.

    • Scratch that it did eventually track

  • So if I have power to the NVR and stick the NVR in the roof space with no monitor and spoke off all the POE cable runs to the cameras, can I log into the NVR via putting the NVR IP into any browser on any of the other workstations on the network?

  • I’ve added all the code without the coins. It comes to $465 aud. Anyone else having the same for the 820a package?

    • Yes same here

      Can someone please help us.

      What are we doing wrong

      • on phone app
        1. open ShopBack
        2. search for aliexpress upsize
        3. within shopback app - on aliexpress page search for Reolink 8CH
        4. In serahc result select you item - this will take you to aliexpress app
        5. select option and add item in aliexpress
        6. make sure you select USD currently for maximum benifit
        7. On checkout page try following promo codes
        a: OZAF90 or OZAF65
        b: REOLINK1697

        See if this brings down the cost. Good Luck

        • Thanks will try this

  • Guessing 2TB is plenty for running 4 cameras 24/7?

    • Is the local storage secure btw? I heard cloud for eufy brand was not secure?

    • Not likely. I suspect you'll get less than a week's retention, especially if you're using the 8MP cameras unless you downscale the retained resolution.

      I'm waiting to see what hardware version of the NVR is received (fingers crossed for the latest N7MB01) since different versions of the RLN8 and RLK8 NVR (both are fundamnetally the same, but the latter is sold in bundled kits with cams) can officially handle upgrades to 4tb, 6tb and 8tb on the internal drive plus whatever you may wish to attach via the SATA port. Unofficially, some people are reporting maxed out 8 camera setups with up to 20tb+ drives getting over a month's retention, but there seems to be a lot of inconsistency between different harddrives and different NVR versions and firmware.

      Different hardware revisions and officially supported drives listed below;
      https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000602543-H…

      A couple (of many!) reddit discussions on the topic to whet the appetite…
      https://www.reddit.com/r/reolinkcam/comments/1gi531a/reolink…
      https://www.reddit.com/r/reolinkcam/comments/myll2f/max_inte…

      • ok, so I guess we wait and see until we know for sure whether we know the limits of the internal drive + external

        • Hopefully all NVRs are from the same (latest? 🤞) hardware version which seem to be the most accommodating of HDD size and brands.

          I'll post which version I receive if anyone doesn't beat me to it, but it will be a case of all care no responsibility, since Reolink only guarantee up to 8tb drives.

          It will be interesting to see how far we can push the envelope and what kind of drive the included 2tb is. There's lots of forum posts from people doing hdd upgrades who repurpose the included drive as their secondary E-sata drive via an adaptor.

      • So would it be recommended to get specific type of drive?

        For eg endurance type card for dashcams

        • Definitely.

          Either Surveillance or at least NAS drives are highly recommended due to the constant writing and extended duty cycles.

          If you're not familiar with the different models (as I'm not beyond WD Purple and Red, and Seagate Ironwolf drives), just search Amazon for "Surveillance + harddrive" or "NAS + HDD" to see some options. With all the takers for this deal, I'm sure a decent Black Friday / Cyber Monday 8tb surveillance drive deal will get a few upvotes…

          • @UncleRico: I'll be looking to pickup something from East Digital HK

          • @UncleRico: Thanks man

            Any websites to learn more about these things

            Also what about things like preventing your local storage of recordings from being hacked

            And rtsp to capture footage?

  • have been looking into getting a new system as well. how does reolink compare with tp-link vigi which is similar in price point? thanks

    • +1

      I've only got one Tapo cam which isn't running off an NVR at present, so I can't comment on how their NVR hardware or software compares, but my single TP-Link Tapo cam feels a lot more plasticky than the various Reolink cams I've assembled.

      Lots of online comparisons, including the quote "I have tried both extensively. Both work very well with scrypted. Build quality and motion sensors on the Reolinks are much better. Motion sensors on Tapo are unacceptable (check Tapo forums)." from the first hit below from googling "Reolink vs Tapo NVR"
      https://www.reddit.com/r/Scrypted/comments/1c9xyq5/tapo_vs_r…

      There's further opinions pro and anti each option, but if you're looking at pricepoint and bang for buck, the Reolink 4 x 5MP cam / 2TB 8ch NVR deal lands at under AU$260 minus any cashback you receive. Not sure that there's an equivalent Tapo deal for anywhere under double that price…

      • thanks for the feedback. and would you say the 8MP is worth the upgrade in terms of performance? I read in my research not to chase the MP, though the 8MP looks to have a larger sensor (1/2.49" CMOS Sensor vs 1/2.7" CMOS Sensor) so it would perform better at night time?

        • Yeah, I'm conflicted and don't actually know.

          Conventional wisdom is that 4-8mp cams are the sweet spot and it's a law of diminishing returns beyond that. Whilst the 8mp qualifies for a bigger coupon discount than the 5mp pack ($60+$20 vs $40+$20), the 5mp list price dropped $80 for Singles Day, whereas the 8mp only dropped $20, so it's a really strong value proposition. Both cams are same generation and were released at the same time - Oct 20, so should have very similar functionality with latest firmware. Apart from the sensor size you noted, the only other changes apart from the resolution and price, is the slightly larger field of view and addition of Pets on the 8mp to the listed Person & Vehicle detection capabilities of the 5mp, and the resulting max FPS drop from 30 fps on the 5mp to 25 on the 8mp, presumably as a result on the bigger resolution and filesize.

          I'm probably going to pull the trigger on the 5mp pack as well, with the intent on using 2 x 8mp for front yards plus 2 x 5mp for back yards (supplemented by a variety of existing Duo, Trackmix and ColorX cams) on two different installations. Presuming that the included cams aren't bound somehow to their existing NVRs.

          • @UncleRico: thanks, probably make sense on the 5mp, save some money for a future upgrade (looking at the Duo and CX series)!

            • +1

              @taxdeduction: Agreed.

              I spoke with Noora again on online support and she confirmed that cameras are not tied to their bundled NVR, so the 5mp and 8mp can be split across different installations. I'm going to order another 5mp bundle as well.

              I'd do exactly as you're planning and grab the 4 x 5mp 520A pack, and then supplement with Duo's and ColorX cams as per your use case. Also consider the excellent Trackmix line - although beware, they are huge. Can't think of a better visual deterrent than a big panning, tilting and zooming cam following any intruder across the property…

  • +2

    Just received my order. They must have a warehouse in Sydney.

    • +1

      First cab off the rank! Fingers crossed that mine is waiting for me at home, although past Reolink deliveries have always been diverted to the post office when someone wasn't home to accept delivery.

      I'm not sure whether it's printed on it anywhere, but let us know what hardware version of the RLK8 NVR you received so we can all start planning HDD upgrades. Hopefully it's the latest N7MB01.

      https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000602543-H…

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