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New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?
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TechBill
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I’m looking at getting the Reolink PoE Doorbell. Running an Ethernet cable to the doorbell location will be easy, but I noticed in the photos that it uses a thinner RJ45 connector on the doorbell's pigtail.
For those of you who have installed one, will a standard Ethernet cable with a regular RJ45 connector still allow the doorbell to sit flush against the door frame? Or do you need to drill a fairly large hole in the door frame to hide the connector behind the doorbell?
For those of you who have installed one, will a standard Ethernet cable with a regular RJ45 connector still allow the doorbell to sit flush against the door frame? Or do you need to drill a fairly large hole in the door frame to hide the connector behind the doorbell?
I drilled my hole just wide enough for the jacket of the ethernet cable, and then put the head on myself with a crimping tool
Yes, a normal cable and standard RJ45 works fine. I've installed 3 that way.
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Thanks!
I installed all of my security cameras using buried Cat6 solid copper cable, so it's a pretty thick cable and doesn't like making sharp bends. I'm hoping the back of the doorbell has enough clearance above the mounting hole that the cable can gradually bend into the wall without putting pressure on the connector or requiring me to make a larger hole.
It's a little tight but you can probably make it work. Worst case might have to enlarge the hole through the wall a bit to let the bend start sooner.
Check to see how your original doorbell was installed as you might not need to run new ethernet. The electrician that wired up all the phone jacks in the house used the same cat3 cable to wire up the doorbell since that's what he had handy. It made it easy to cut the RJ-11 end off and crimp an RJ-45. The doorbell chime was mounted to the coat closet that my ethernet switches are installed in, so the other end of my wiring was extremely easy as well.