A year after Reolink used IFA 2025 to introduce its ReoNeura AI platform and TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi, the company is back in Berlin with another sizeable expansion of its security ecosystem.
At IFA 2026, Reolink has unveiled the new OMVI 2i Ultra, expanded its TrackFlex family with the TrackFlex WiFi, introduced the Home Hub 2, and revealed a particularly interesting new ReoNeura capability: AI detection that users can train around situations specific to their own property.
And unlike plenty of increasingly AI-heavy smart home platforms, Reolink is continuing to make local processing and subscription-free functionality a substantial part of the pitch.
Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra combines two very different cameras
The headline hardware announcement is the Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra, a wire-free addition to the company’s OMVI family.
Rather than simply putting two lenses alongside one another, Reolink has combined an 8MP 4K fixed wide-view camera with a separate 5MP 3K pan-and-tilt camera.
The fixed camera provides a 110-degree horizontal field of view and keeps watching the overall scene, while the PT camera can pan 355 degrees and tilt 50 degrees to follow whatever has caught its attention.
That’s important because it addresses one of the compromises inherent in a conventional PT camera: once the camera turns to follow something, it isn’t watching where it was originally pointed.
Reolink’s approach keeps the wide-angle camera looking at the overall scene while the second camera does the chasing. The company calls the system SyncTrack.
When the wide camera detects a target, the PT camera can lock onto it and continue tracking even after it has moved outside the fixed camera’s field of view. The PT camera can also detect and track targets independently.
There’s also a neat PinPoint Control feature. Tap somewhere on the panoramic image in the Reolink app and the PT camera can be directed straight towards that area.
No power cable required
The other significant difference is how Reolink is powering all of this.
OMVI 2i Ultra has a detachable 10,000mAh battery and a 6W solar panel using what Reolink calls SolarEase technology.
Reolink claims the battery can provide up to six months of operation on a charge, depending on settings, usage and temperature, while around 30 minutes of suitable sunlight each day can provide enough solar charging to maintain operation.
The camera also gets dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi 6, up to 512GB microSD storage, people, vehicle and animal detection, infrared and colour night vision, two-way audio, light and siren deterrence and compatibility with Reolink’s Home Hub range.
The Reolink OMVI 2i Ultra is expected in Australia during spring 2026, with local pricing still to be announced.
Reolink will also be showing the considerably more ambitious OMVI X16 PoE at IFA, packing 24MP resolution and 16x optical zoom. That’s expected to arrive in Q4 2026.
The X16 isn’t entirely new to us either. We covered Reolink’s OMVI X16 and broader push into local AI at CES 2026, so its appearance at IFA is another step towards an eventual retail launch rather than its first outing.
ReoNeura can now learn what you actually care about
The hardware is interesting, but perhaps the more consequential announcement is what Reolink is doing with ReoNeura.
We first covered ReoNeura when Reolink unveiled the platform at IFA 2025. At the time, its capabilities included natural-language AI Video Search, person and object detection, Smart Event Detection, Video Captioning and a collection of business-focused analytics.
Now Reolink is adding Custom AI Detection.
Rather than being limited to classifications determined by Reolink — person, vehicle, animal, parcel and so forth — users will be able to train the system to recognise circumstances specific to their own environment.
Reolink gives the example of a side gate being left open. Train the system to recognise what the closed and open states look like and it can alert you when the gate has been left open.
That’s potentially considerably more useful than simply adding another category to a predefined detection list.
The wider ReoNeura platform now encompasses AI Video Search, object and event detection, perimeter protection, Video Captioning, Smart Summary and commercial features including people counting, heat maps and crowd monitoring.
Importantly, Reolink says Custom AI Detection is performed on-device without requiring a subscription.
Custom AI Detection will be made available on supported Reolink camera series through firmware updates, rather than requiring users to purchase an entirely new generation of camera hardware. Reolink expects the feature to begin arriving by December 2026.
Home Hub 2 brings local AI search together
Reolink is also introducing the Home Hub 2, providing a central local home for recordings from up to eight Reolink cameras.
It supports up to 16TB of external storage, but the interesting part is how Reolink is bringing ReoNeura into that local repository.
Local AI Video Search lets you search recorded footage using natural-language descriptions rather than manually scrubbing through hours of recordings.
We’ve already used Reolink’s AI Video Search on its cameras — including the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi — and while the implementation we’ve tested hasn’t always been perfect, being able to type a description of what you’re looking for is a substantially better starting point than scrolling through a timeline.
And processing the search locally rather than requiring footage to be uploaded to a cloud service addresses one of the obvious privacy questions surrounding AI-powered security cameras.
The Reolink Home Hub 2 will arrive in Australia this spring for $259.99 AUD.
TrackFlex loses the floodlights
There’s another familiar name among Reolink’s IFA announcements.
The new TrackFlex WiFi expands the TrackFlex family with a standalone 4K dual-lens camera.
And expands is the important word here.
DRN first covered the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi at IFA 2025, and we’ve subsequently had one installed and running for months before publishing our full Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi review.
The new TrackFlex WiFi takes much of what we’ve already seen from that camera and puts it into a considerably more compact package without the enormous integrated floodlights.
Reolink has now provided the full specifications, confirming an 8MP 4K wide-angle camera paired with a 2MP tracking camera, along with 6x hybrid zoom. The wide lens provides a 104-degree horizontal field of view, narrowing to 38 degrees through the tracking camera.
There’s still plenty of movement available too, with up to 350-degree pan and 50-degree tilt, along with a guard position and up to 64 preset positions.
More importantly, the particularly useful 270-degree out-of-view detection from the Floodlight model remains.
Three PIR sensors allow the camera to detect movement occurring outside wherever its lenses happen to be pointing. Rather than waiting for a person, animal or vehicle to walk into the current frame, TrackFlex can rotate towards activity detected elsewhere around it.
That’s a feature we’ve already experienced on the Floodlight version, and it solves one of the obvious limitations of a conventional pan-and-tilt camera: being able to rotate through a huge area isn’t terribly useful if the camera doesn’t know something is happening behind it.
The TrackFlex WiFi also supports people, vehicle and animal detection, two-way audio, infrared and colour night vision, dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi 6, up to 512GB microSD storage and 24/7 recording.
It is also considerably smaller than its illuminated sibling, measuring 110 x 127 x 170mm and weighing 725 grams before accessories.
In other words, if you liked the surveillance capabilities of the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi but didn’t need a pair of 3,000-lumen floodlights hanging off the wall, this is the more conventional version of the idea.
The Reolink TrackFlex WiFi will be available in Australia from 20 October for $289.99 AUD.
Reolink is also getting considerably friendlier with the smart home
Reolink is broadening its smart-home integrations too.
The ecosystem now works across Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Home Assistant, Homey and IFTTT, with Reolink saying further integrations are coming.
Alexa and Google Home provide the familiar voice control and live camera feeds through compatible displays, while Home Assistant and Homey are arguably where things become more interesting for enthusiasts.
Camera events can become triggers for wider automations involving devices outside Reolink’s own ecosystem rather than the security system existing as an isolated island.
IFA 2026 looks more like evolution than reset for Reolink
Taken individually, none of these announcements completely changes what a security camera can do.
Taken together, however, there’s a pretty clear direction.
Last year Reolink introduced ReoNeura and the original TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi at IFA. This year it’s building on both rather than starting again: TrackFlex becomes a wider camera family, ReoNeura gains user-trainable detection that will also roll out to supported camera series through firmware updates, Home Hub 2 pushes more AI capability into local storage, and OMVI 2i Ultra combines persistent wide-angle surveillance with active tracking without requiring wired power.
The Custom AI Detection may prove to be the most interesting part of the lot.
Security cameras have become very good at telling us what they’re looking at. Teaching one to understand what is unusual about your particular home is potentially a much bigger step.
Reolink is exhibiting its new products at IFA 2026 in Hall 1.2, Booth 181 at Messe Berlin from September 4–8.
