Connect your camera with your phone's hotspot

Applies to:

Argus, Argus 2 and Argus pro

When configuring the battery-powered camera for the first time, if you hear "Connection to the router failed", and please press "Connection to the router failed " button without help, you can try to connect your camera with your phone's hotspot to exclude your router's problem.

Note:Using your phone's hotspot will consume too much dates and also you need two phones to  finish the whole process.

1. Please enable /turn on Personal Hotspot on your phone#1 as below:
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2. You will see below page as an example.
  (1) WLAN Password is your Hotspot password just like your wifi password and you can set it yourself randomly. 
  (2) To connect using WLAN: Choose" ×××" from the WLAN settings....
  "×××" is your phone's name and also the Hotspot name, and you can set the name randomly.
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3. Please follow here to set up: Add Reolink Argus/Argus Pro/Argus 2 via Reolink App

All steps are nearly the same with connecting to a router, just pay attention two below two steps

Step 2:use your phone#2 to scan the QR code of this camera rather than the phone#1 with hotspot opened.

Step 5: choose to enter your hotspot wifi name and the password that you set on phone#1

If your camera had successfully connect with your phone#1's hotspot, and you can live view on the phone#2's app, which means this camera is working and you need to check your router's settings or try another router.