Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra vs Argus Track & TrackMix: Worth It?

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The Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra is a solar battery camera with two lenses that can point in different directions at the same time. The top lens is a fixed 4K wide view that holds the whole driveway or yard on screen. The bottom one is a 3K pan-tilt camera that pans up to 355 degrees to follow a person, car or animal, and it stays on them after they leave the wide shot. It went on sale October 21 for $229.99 with the solar panel in the box, and Reolink’s own store had it at $206.99 during launch week.

Reolink has sold battery-powered dual-lens trackers since the TrackMix in 2022 and the Argus Track a year later. On those, the whole camera turns to chase whoever set it off, so the wide view swings away too, and anything else going on in the yard drops out of frame while it’s busy. The OMVI 2i Ultra leaves the wide lens where you aimed it. It also gets a 10,000mAh battery you can unclip and charge on the kitchen counter, where the Argus Track and TrackMix have theirs sealed inside.

I haven’t mounted one on my own house. I worked from Reolink’s spec sheets and launch announcement, the one detailed English-language hands-on so far (Kevin Cheng’s, for Digital Reviews Network in Melbourne), and Reolink’s US prices for five older cameras, checked October 24.

Key Takeaways

Two views at once: a fixed 8MP (4K) wide lens covering 110° across, plus a 5MP (3K) pan-tilt lens that turns 355° and tracks on its own.
Price: $229.99 list with a 6W solar panel included; $206.99 on Reolink’s US store October 24. A two-pack is $449.99 list, $404.99 on sale.
Battery: a detachable 10,000mAh pack, rated for up to six months at five minutes of recording a day.
Shorter night range on paper: infrared reaches 10 m (33 ft), against 30 m (100 ft) on the Argus Track and TrackMix.
Motion-only recording, no pre-record. The Altas PT Ultra ($219.99) can record continuously and keeps the seconds before motion.
Cheapest dual-lens tracker: the Argus Track at $149.99 with a panel, with a smaller built-in battery and a body that turns as one piece.
If you can run a cable, the only detailed reviewer so far would still pick the wired OMVI 3i PoE.

What the OMVI 2i Ultra Does Differently

Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra with its solar panel on top, a two-lens fixed camera above a round black pan-tilt camera, with spec callouts for each lens — The fixed 4K lens sits in the upper block; the 3K pan-tilt camera hangs below it. Image: Reolink

The wide view stays where you aimed it

The upper lens sees 110° horizontally. You set its angle by hand when you mount it, and after that it doesn’t move. The lower lens has a narrower 52° view and a motor, so it can pan 355° and tilt 55°. Until something happens it can watch a second spot, say the side gate while the wide lens covers the driveway.

When the wide lens spots a person, vehicle or animal, the pan-tilt camera locks on and follows, even past the edge of the wide frame (Reolink calls this SyncTrack). Auto-Framing zooms in or out to keep the target a readable size. With Pinpoint you tap a spot in the wide image in the Reolink app and the lower camera turns to look there. Both tracking features need a calibration in the app once the camera is up outside.

If your driveway is where the scooters and bikes live, the wide shot can stay on the kids at the curb while the second camera trails the delivery driver up the walk.

Split view of a backyard from the OMVI 2i Ultra, the wide lens showing the whole lawn and fence on the left and the pan-tilt lens zoomed on a child running on the right — Reolink’s illustration of the two feeds: the full yard from the fixed lens, and a closer look from the pan-tilt lens. Image: Reolink

The battery comes out, and the panel is in the box

The 10,000mAh battery detaches, so when it runs down you carry the pack inside to charge instead of running a cord up to the camera. Reolink rates it for up to six months per charge, a figure based on five minutes of recording a day and standby the rest of the time. A busy street or a lot of live viewing will cut that down; Cheng names long live-view sessions as the biggest drain.

The 6W solar panel ships with the camera. It can sit on top of it, or you can mount it somewhere sunnier with an extension cable. Reolink says 30 minutes of direct sun a day keeps the battery topped up and claims a 26% gain in charging efficiency for the panel. The Gadgeteer’s launch coverage pointed out that the 30-minute claim “is not a guarantee for shaded walls or winter weather,” Cheng’s panel kept up through his test period, with a Melbourne winter still ahead.

The Argus Track’s 4,800mAh battery is built in, and Reolink’s own FAQ puts it at about one to four weeks per charge. The battery TrackMix holds 5,100mAh, also sealed. If size is all you care about, the Altas PT Ultra packs 20,000mAh, twice the OMVI’s, though you can’t pull that one out either.

White Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra mounted under the eaves of a gray house in the rain, with its solar panel attached on top — The panel can ride on the camera, as here, or mount separately where the sun is better. Rated IP65. Image: Reolink

Wi-Fi 6, used one band at a time

It connects over dual-band Wi-Fi 6 (2.4GHz and 5GHz), with Bluetooth for setup in the app. Cheng found it uses one band at a time, 5GHz by default. He mounted it at one of the farthest points from his router, with walls in between, and the connection held. The Argus Track runs on older dual-band Wi-Fi without Wi-Fi 6.

What the First Review Found

Kevin Cheng mounted his OMVI 2i Ultra on a corner of his house in Melbourne, where the wide lens covers the front of the property. In daylight the fixed lens “easily delivers the better image.” The pan-tilt camera looked sharp standing still but showed “some blur and artefacts” while tracking, which he partly blames on the 15 frames per second both lenses record at.

At night, infrared footage was “clear and defined.” Switched to color night mode, the foreground fell into “an inky darkness with little detail.” A 4:15 a.m. Amazon delivery made a good test: with headlights pointed at the camera, the license plate came out washed out, the pan-tilt camera tracked with a delay and didn’t hold the subject the whole time, and the fixed lens recorded the full delivery. He had to tune detection to cut false alerts, and it missed at least one event.

His verdict: “The OMVI 2i Ultra solves a very specific problem.” Where he can run cable, he’d still choose the wired OMVI 3i PoE, which records continuously.

OMVI 2i Ultra spotlight lighting the side of a house at dusk as a man climbs a wooden fence near a pergola — Each lens has its own infrared and white spotlight, rated to 10 meters. Image: Reolink

Where It Falls Short

It records only when something moves. There’s no continuous recording and no pre-record buffer, so if detection misses an event, there’s no clip of it. The Altas PT Ultra saves a few seconds from before motion and can record around the clock.

Night range is shorter. Infrared and the 6500K spotlights are each rated to 10 meters, about 33 feet. The Argus Track and battery TrackMix are rated for 30 meters of infrared.

More pixels, less reach. The 5MP tracking lens beats the 2MP telephoto on the Argus Track, but it’s a 6mm lens with a 52° view and no zoom rating. The Argus Track pairs its wide lens with an 8mm telephoto and 6x hybrid zoom, the TrackMix with 8x. For a face at the far end of a long driveway, the older cameras get closer.

It’s heavy. With its bracket it weighs 1,010 grams, about 2.2 pounds, roughly twice the Argus Track.

Storage is a microSD card up to 512GB that you buy separately, or a Reolink Home Hub. Local recording carries no monthly fee. The product page lists Google Assistant and marks Alexa “coming soon.” There’s no Apple HomeKit support.

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OMVI 2i Ultra vs. Older Reolink Battery Cameras

Camera	Released	Price with solar panel	Lenses	How it tracks	Battery	Night vision	Recording
OMVI 2i Ultra	Oct. 2026	$229.99 ($206.99 on sale)	4K wide (110°) + 3K pan-tilt	Lower lens tracks; wide lens stays put	10,000mAh, removable	Infrared + spotlight, 10 m	Motion only
Argus Track	2023	$149.99	4K wide (105°) + 2MP telephoto, 6x hybrid zoom	Whole camera turns	4,800mAh, built in	Infrared 30 m; color 15 m	Motion only
TrackMix (battery)	2022	$199.99 (list $249.99)	4K wide + 1080p telephoto, 8x hybrid zoom	Whole camera turns	5,100mAh, built in	Infrared 30 m	Motion only
Altas PT Ultra	2024	$219.99	One 4K lens	Whole camera turns	20,000mAh, built in	ColorX color only, no infrared	Motion, continuous, 10-second pre-record
Argus PT Ultra	2023	$166.99	One 4K lens	Whole camera turns	About 4 months claimed	Infrared + spotlight, 10 m	Motion only
Argus 4 Pro	2024	$214.99	Two lenses stitched into one 180° view	Doesn’t move or track	5,000mAh, built in	ColorX color only, no infrared	Motion only

Prices from Reolink’s US store on October 24, 2026, each bundled with a solar panel. Specs from Reolink’s product pages. Battery ratings rest on different daily-use assumptions, so compare them loosely. Every model here records at 15 fps, stores to microSD and needs no subscription for local recording.

Which Reolink Should You Buy?

Two areas to watch and no outlet nearby: the OMVI 2i Ultra, $229.99 list.
The least you can spend on a tracker: the Argus Track at $149.99 with a panel, $80 under the OMVI. You give up the fixed wide view, Wi-Fi 6 and the removable battery.
Faces or plates at the end of a long driveway: the battery TrackMix, $199.99, for 8x hybrid zoom and 30 meters of infrared. At 1.4 kg it’s even heavier than the OMVI.
You want the seconds before someone walked into frame: the Altas PT Ultra, $219.99, the one battery model here with pre-record and continuous recording. It has one lens, so it turns away from the rest of the yard to track.
A basic pan-tilt camera for a porch: the Argus PT Ultra, $166.99 with a panel.
A wide backyard and nothing you need followed: the Argus 4 Pro, $214.99 with a panel, which sees 180° from one spot.
You can run an Ethernet cable: the wired OMVI 3i PoE ($299.99 list) records continuously, and it’s what Cheng would pick.

Already Own an Argus Track or TrackMix?

Keep it unless the swinging wide view has already cost you footage, or its sealed battery now needs charging every week or two. Your older camera’s telephoto reaches farther and its infrared lights three times the distance. What you’d be buying is the fixed second view and a battery you can take inside to charge without unscrewing the camera from the wall.

Running it with the rest of your house: Reolink lists Alexa, Google Home, Home Assistant, Homey and IFTTT among the platforms its cameras work with, though the OMVI 2i Ultra’s own page still shows Alexa as coming soon. If your cameras, lights and locks each live in a different app, our review of the Homey Pro hub covers one way to pull them into one place.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra?

It’s a wire-free outdoor security camera with two lenses: a fixed 4K wide lens and a 3K pan-tilt lens that tracks people, vehicles and animals on its own. It runs on a detachable 10,000mAh battery and comes with a 6W solar panel. Reolink released it October 21, 2026.

How much does the OMVI 2i Ultra cost?

$229.99 for one camera with the solar panel, or $449.99 for a two-pack. Reolink’s US store had them at $206.99 and $404.99 on October 24, 2026.

What’s the difference between the OMVI 2i Ultra and the Argus Track?

The OMVI 2i Ultra’s wide lens stays fixed while its second lens tracks, so you keep the full scene in view. The Argus Track turns as one unit. The OMVI also has a removable 10,000mAh battery (the Argus Track’s 4,800mAh battery is built in), Wi-Fi 6 and an included panel. The Argus Track costs $80 less with a panel, zooms farther (6x hybrid) and has longer infrared range.

Is the OMVI 2i Ultra better than the Reolink TrackMix?

For watching two spots at once, yes, because the TrackMix turns its whole body to track. The battery TrackMix has stronger zoom (8x hybrid) and 30 meters of infrared against the OMVI’s 10, and it costs $199.99 with a panel.

How long does the OMVI 2i Ultra battery last?

Reolink rates it for up to six months per charge at five minutes of recording a day. More motion, more live viewing and cold weather shorten that. The included solar panel needs about 30 minutes of direct sun a day, by Reolink’s figures, to keep it charged.

Does the OMVI 2i Ultra need a subscription?

No. It records to a microSD card of up to 512GB (sold separately) or to a Reolink Home Hub with no monthly fee. Reolink also sells cloud storage plans.

Does the OMVI 2i Ultra record 24/7?

No. It records only when it detects motion, and it doesn’t keep a pre-record buffer. Among Reolink’s battery cameras, the Altas PT Ultra offers continuous recording and up to 10 seconds of pre-record.

Is the OMVI 2i Ultra 4K?

The fixed wide lens is 4K (8MP, 3840 x 2160). The pan-tilt lens is 3K (5MP, 2880 x 1616). Both record at 15 frames per second.

Does the OMVI 2i Ultra work with Alexa or Google Home?

Reolink’s product page lists Google Assistant support and marks Alexa as coming soon. It doesn’t support Apple HomeKit.

Is the OMVI 2i Ultra weatherproof?

It’s rated IP65, which covers dust and water jets from any direction, so it’s built for rain and sprinklers. Reolink’s spec table lists an operating range of -20°C to 55°C (-4°F to 131°F).