REOLINK GO SERIES G340 - 4G STANDALONE IP CAMERA

The G in the name means its own mobile internet, not your router

Reolink's Go Series is the line with a built-in 4G/LTE modem, and that single fact separates the G340 from the Wi-Fi Argus models and from the brand's wired P-series cameras. You insert an ordinary nano-SIM with a data plan, and from that moment the camera reaches the internet on its own and streams to the app — no router, no cable run, no need for your home network to reach the far end of the plot. The modem covers the European bands B1/B3/B7/B8/B20/B28, which is exactly what Ukrainian operators run on, so network registration is rarely an issue. What is worth checking before you buy is coverage at the precise spot where the camera will hang, because at the edge of a cell the radio works harder and eats noticeably more battery. One practical detail trips up most first-time buyers: activate the SIM in a phone first and switch off the PIN request, otherwise the camera simply cannot register on the network by itself.

A 28 Wh battery: how many days that really is, and when you need the solar panel

The built-in 28 Wh pack charges over USB-C, and how long it lasts depends on events in front of the lens rather than on the calendar. With a typical load of fifteen to twenty triggers a day and a couple of short live views, a charge covers roughly one to four weeks; on a quiet plot where almost nobody walks in, the camera can stretch to one or two months. Hang it over a busy driveway and watch the live feed for several minutes daily, and the same battery is down to days — not a defect, simply physics, since pushing a 4K stream over LTE is the most power-hungry thing this device does. For uninterrupted operation there is the 6 W Reolink Solar Panel 2, which plugs into the same USB-C port and in the warm half of the year fully covers daily consumption. Winter needs a fallback plan: in December and January daylight is short, the panel harvests a fraction of its summer yield, and the official lower operating limit is -10 °C, so choose a mounting spot you can still reach to take the camera down and recharge it indoors every few weeks.

Event recording, not round-the-clock — understand this before ordering

The G340 keeps no continuous archive: it idles most of the time, wakes on motion and writes a clip of a few seconds to a few minutes onto a microSD card of up to 128 GB. That behaviour is exactly what buys the autonomy — a camera recording 24/7 would flatten this battery within a day, so event recording is not a firmware limitation but the condition that makes the format possible. In practice you see every moment when something happened on the property, but you have no continuous timeline and cannot scrub back to an arbitrary minute of an empty night. There is also a nuance that annoys newcomers: roughly a second passes between the start of motion and the start of recording while the sensor wakes, so somebody walking fast right past the lens may enter the frame already halfway through. If a continuous archive is what you actually need — a warehouse or a shop floor where any episode of the working day must be recoverable — that is a direct argument for the wired PoE Reolink models instead of the Go line.

8 MP, a 105° field of view and deliberately short-range illumination

The 1/2.7" sensor produces a 3840×2160 frame, four times the pixel count of the common 2 MP cameras, so digitally zooming into a fragment still leaves a face or lettering on a van door readable. At 2.8 mm the 105° angle covers a typical yard or entrance area in one shot, without a second camera for the side sectors. Fifteen frames per second is a conscious trade for battery life: it is enough to record a person or a car moving at normal speed, but frame-by-frame analysis of fast movement will be coarser than on a wired camera running at 25 fps. Night vision comes from six 850 nm infrared LEDs and is built for the near zone — around ten metres, meaning the approach to a gate, a porch or the area in front of a site cabin rather than the far corner of a large plot. That too follows from autonomy: stronger floodlights would drain the pack in a few nights, so this camera is placed close to the point it guards instead of being asked to cover forty metres of perspective.

Person, vehicle and animal recognition runs inside the camera

Classification happens on the device: before any alert leaves the camera it decides whether it saw a human, a vehicle or an animal, and you enable notifications only for the categories you care about. On a battery model this filtering matters more than on a wired one, because every false trigger costs not just an unwanted push but real charge, so well-drawn detection zones directly extend runtime. Alerts arrive as push messages in the Reolink app and by e-mail, and the recognition itself needs no subscription — it runs locally and works from the moment you finish setup. Reolink Cloud exists separately and is switched on by choice, mainly as an off-site copy in case somebody takes the camera along with its memory card; the service is not offered in every country, so plan around local storage first. The built-in microphone records audio together with the video, and sound often explains an event better than the picture does: you hear a car pull up, a dog react, somebody rattle the gate.

Where this camera belongs — and where it does not

The classic use cases for a G340 are a summer house with seasonal or no electricity, a building site before permanent power arrives, a remote garage, an apiary, a field with machinery parked on it or a plot bought for future construction. In all of them the task is phrased the same way: know whether anyone entered, and have video of that entry rather than a continuous recording of empty space. The housing weighs 450 g at 75×194 mm and carries an IP65 rating, so dust and rain are handled, but a camera with no cable holding it is also a valuable object in its own right — mount it three metres up or higher, out of reach from the ground. It is the wrong choice wherever mains power and a network already exist: in a shop, a warehouse or a stairwell a wired camera delivers round-the-clock recording and more detail for less money. It is equally wrong where licence plates must be read confidently at twenty to twenty-five metres, a job that calls for longer optics and stronger illumination rather than a wide angle and ten metres of infrared.

How it compares with the neighbouring models in this catalogue

Its closest relative is the Reolink Go Series G330-C in the same price bracket: identical autonomous LTE concept but 4 MP instead of 8, which makes it the weaker buy at equal money unless lighter data traffic on a mobile plan is what you are optimising for. The Reolink Go G430 without solar panel adds a motorised head that looks around, yet resolution drops to 5 MP and no panel is included, so the lower sticker price turns into a separate purchase later. If the site does have internet, paying for LTE stops making sense: the battery-powered Reolink Argus B330 follows the same event-driven logic over Wi-Fi for half the money. The wired 8 MP options in this catalogue put the price in perspective: Hikvision DS-2CD2083G2-LI reaches 40 metres of night illumination, while Dahua DH-IPC-HDBW2849E-S-IL records continuously and takes power over a single PoE cable. The conclusion is blunt: with the G340 you are paying for independence from grid power and internet, and when a site already has both, a cheaper wired camera is objectively the better deal.

Not sure whether 4G is stable at the spot you have in mind, or how long the battery will last with your pattern of activity? Describe the site to us and we will tell you whether the solar panel is necessary — or whether a wired model would serve you better.