Reolinkers’ Week Day 5: Reolink Client Version 8.7 Beta & APP Version 4.29 Release

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Reolinkers’ Week Day 5: Reolink Client Version 8.7 Beta & APP Version 4.29 Release
Hi all! Today is day 5 of the Reolinkers’ Week. We have felt your excitement and heard lots of feedback from you in this week. Today we have the 8.7 Client Beta and APP 4.29 release!

What’s new about Client 8.7.0 and APP 4.29?
Client 8.7.0:
1. Added the device list reorder function; (It's finally available!)
You can adjust the camera order by clicking on the camera and dragging it to a preferable position.

2. Added the “scrollview” button on the live view page and the scrollview interval in the local setting
This feature is the “tour” feature of the previous Client. You can watch video of each camera at a regular interval.

3. Added the function to customize the time, timezone and DST;

4. Added an individual configuration entry button to the NVR/DUO device list;

5. Added a refresh button to privacy mask, motion detection zone and object size settings;

6. Added strong and weak indicators next to the password input box;
7. Added new features, including AI detection type for spotlight, push interval, diagnostic Logs and “Http and Https” switch, for cameras with the latest AI firmware.
You can click here to know more details about the new feature of the new AI firmware in the post yesterday. https://bit.ly/3GPAtmo

Improvements:
- Reduced loading time for video playback;
- Accelerated the loading speed of the playback files;
- Users are allowed to resize client window with the sizer on the upper edge.
- Users can see the UID and IP information even when the device is disconnected.
- Moved the entry for adding device from the upper right corner of the client to the top of the device list
- Optimize UI design
- Fixed some known bugs.

On schedule:
Time-lapse function on Client!!!

Android & IOS v.4.29 APP
What’s New:
1. Added Push interval function!!!
Enable the push notification first to see the interval setting. With this interval setting, users can receive the notifications at an interval instead of the duplicated push notifications.

2. Added IOS critical alert (Push notification->critical alert)
You need to turn on the critical alerts both in the APP setting and the phone setting. With the critical alerts enabled, you will receive notifications on lock screen with sound alerts even if your phone is muted or under Do Not Disturb mode.

3. Redesigned the camera layout of the NVR.
--Adjusted the NVR default horizontal layout to the vertical single-column layout; --The layout of NVR list can be switched from vertical single-column to multi-column;
--Added the direct entry of the setting module of a certain channel of the NVR;

4. Added the “channel list” function to the NVR
You can change the device order by pressing the three-dash icon.
By pressing the eye icon, you can also hide the device which you don’t want to see on the display page. With this function, you can ignore the empty channel of the NVR now.

5. Optimized Android UI
6. Optimized FTP feature

Note:
Only the cameras with the new AI firmware v3.1.0.764 or v3.1.0.804 (for the RLC-823A and RLC-523WA) support some new features like the FTP optimization and push interval. You can upgrade the camera to the latest firmware. For more information, please refer to the post about the new AI firmware.
You can download the latest firmware here, https://bit.ly/3qLsPni.

Where to download:
1. Download the Client Beta Client v.8.7.0 via the link below：
Windows: https://home-cdn.reolink.us/files/client/electron-release/Reolink%20Setup%208.7.0.exe
Mac:
https://home-cdn.reolink.us/files/client/electron-release/Reolink-8.7.0.dmg

2. Download the IOS APP v4.29 from the Apple APP store.
Note: For the IOS APP, you can download it from the App store now. For the Android APP, it will be available in the google play store soon.

You can provide us any feedback for the Client and APP.
What else features do you want for the Client/APP? You can let us know in the comments!

Faasio

Can't wait for the Android version!

Maybe something to consider: everytime i change the screen in the app, i have to put it manually to 5 mp.
It woud be nice if it stay at the same and not have to change it all the time.

Thank you!

catalano_alessandro

Salve volevo sapere se l aggiornamento è automatico o lo devo inserire io manualmente grazie.

Tazzy

Thanks for the update, some useful features.

What would be really useful is if the PZT function 'zoom' and 'focus' had a bar on it, so you know how far you are e.g. zoomed in or out. Initially, I sometimes wonder when using this if I have reached maximum or not

Something like this....

Tazzy

schonuf

Great updates! I'm excited for some of the new features. I would also love to see the following features added to the app/client:

1. Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode on iOS? I've read on your forums that this was a limitation with iOS. Is this something that will be eventually overcome? I've started to notice some iOS apps implementing this feature (e.g.: Netflix).
2. Picture and/or video previews from push notifications. A picture of three-to-five second video preview of the motion/person/vehicle alert would help identify if further action is actually required, v.s. a false positive.
3. Creation of multiple detection "zones" per camera.
4. Quick forward and backward when viewing video playback: A button on the GUI to quickly skip backward or forward 10, 15 or 30 seconds when using the playback feature (whether using when viewing full recordings, motion, person, or vehicle alerts)

Faasio

@Reolink-Lorenz : Thank you for the explanation.

I have the bèta version on my phone now.
The live view stays at High now when i leave the app, but you are right, the loading time is longer.

iot casme

Congratulations for all the new releases.

I recently bought 3 new RLC-810A cameras, and I was testing the firmware beta version of 810A cameras, and there are many new improvements.
I was getting a lot of alerts with rain, spider-webs and fumes from water heater, and the new firmware with "Alarm Delay" feature solves these issues. Congrats!

Now, a suggestion for another improvement - the implementation of geometric shapes with edit points in "Motion Detection Zone", and also edit points in "Privacy Mask".

clive777

time lapse on client ...nice to have more control......the power ...lol

Faasio

My view freeses all the time. With live view and with watching recordings on Android.
I am using the old app version, because the bèta Android version was very slow.

Faasio

Playback also still doesn't work all the time.

Faasio

The date for the Time Lapse in the Bèta Android version is not correct.

Robert Hammond

With the Client Version 8.7 Beta

The live camera view defaults to Standard view (which I think is the same as Fluent). And I can change the camera view to Clear by right clicking on the live image. This setting change will remain while the client is running.

My recollection with the previous client version was that after changing the live view to Clear, this setting change would be saved so that when starting the client after shutting down, the client would boot the live view to Clear.

Observation with 8.7 Beta - changing the live view to Clear is not save after a client re-boot.

Philippe

I just installed the beta version 4.29.3 for android, and indeed the playback of recorded videos is very slow now Looks like frame-by-frame playback instead of having smooth video playback

Joseph

Hi Reolink Team,

I did capture some traces at both the RLC511WA and the Client sides and noticed that the all the packets transmitted by the camera have reached the clients. You have a byte denoting the packet number. When the playback was set to low, the video preview was smooth and the sound was continuous. This means that at low resolution setting the camera was able to transmit the packets at a CBR with no packet loss or delays between packets.

Then I changed the resolution to CLEAR and despite that there were no missing packets, the video can be seen sometimes freezing and the sound chopped. This is apparent when there is movement in both live and previews. There was no issue of bandwidth at all and both the source and the target were on the same subnet. Thence the issue is at source. It could be inefficient H264 encoding (I guess software encoding is used) at high resolution or hardware issue. I also noticed that the max downloading speed for FTP is 1.2Mbps. This is low especially when you are on the same subnet.

I even changed the bit rate for 5Mbps with the recommended value of 1536kbps but didn't observe any improvements.

I checked another model, the Argus 2 and the same issue has been observed at high resolution. Appreciate if the engineering team check and get back to us with their findings.

Regards,
Joseph

nickm

Alarm Settings is broke in this 8.7 beta. Does the same thing for all cameras and RETRY does nothing.