View camera feed on Roku

[jared_36401795568]

How can I see my reolink cameras on my Roku?

[joseph_1979]

@jared_36401795568 You can as long as the camera supports the ONVIF or RTSP protocol. You can install the IP camera viewer on Roku, set the cam IP, default ONVIF port 8000 or whatever you set on camera, credentials and the streaming URL. You may do a search on Reolink website and see how to set up RTSP/ONVIF on their cameras.

[jared_36401795568]

@joseph-chircop_497308027822318 Thanks!

[BranMan_824706912129181]

@joseph_1979 -- The Roku "IP Camera Viewer" really is (still, 2.5 years later) a miserable pile of (cr)app. I've been researching this for years now and STILL there is no desirable solution. Plex is a no-go because they've stopped supporting plug-ins, Emby's IPTV plug-in (and Emby in general) has a buffering issue such that RTSP streams can't recover when they pause or stop as RTSP is non-real-time traffic. Even implementing full QoS on the home LAN hasn't helped with that specific issue with Emby despite the higher traffic priorities for RTSP and RTMP.

Both the Plex and Emby devs seem to engage in high levels of hubris back at their users when requesting help or features on such subjects. And I've gone down the community forums' rabbit holes of "your network sucks" or "you don't know what you're doing" or "go away, you bug me" to the point where I've stopped listening. I am a network and systems engineer of 40+ years. I should think that I can "figure it out", but appealing to the Plex and Emby devs is counter-productive and a complete waste of time. The other random RTSP stream viewers out there work well enough in specific circumstances, but IPTV on Emby really seems to be the only Roku-specific application for security camera viewing that works even somewhat well.

That said, I've also tried Blue Iris and it works okay with an ONVIF source such as the Reolink cameras provide but it lacks functionality like Pan-Tilt-Zoom and audio support.

I have less than a dozen Reolink cameras on a LAN with multi-gigabit (1/2.5/5/10Gbps) core switches (Arista and Zyxel) with QoS and enterprise-grade access points (Zyxel), some wired cams with PoE and some wireless, and most of the solutions out there, OTHER than the Reolink mobile app and the Reolink NVR, suck as potential solutions to casual viewing of my security cameras. The Reolink NVR36 works really well although that's not really useful for casual viewing on a television anywhere in the home.

And so to my point; Reolink either needs to open-source some small sub-set of its viewer app so that we can develop around it or start supporting platforms like Roku and Linux desktops. (I currently prefer Ubuntu 24 Cinnamon.) The Linux support should be easy. The Roku developers' process is somewhat more distasteful and I stepped away from that a long time ago. But barring Roku channel development perhaps a proper Emby plug-in could be useful.

It just seems that this particular subject has been an itch that needs to be scratched for years now and Reolink's newer cameras bring the subject back to life yet again. And I'm talking native Port 9000 support, not just RTMP or RTSP or ONVIF, as those protocols would be sub-optimal.

So what is Reolink's official stance on this subject? Will the company continue to let it's users hang, or can it publish a software solution that would be versatile and helpful outside of the Apple/Android mobile context? (And yes, I already know about the Windows application, and no thanks for abandoning Windows 7 support.)

Thank you for listening.

[Chopstix]

@branman_824706912129181 us Global Moderators are not Reolink representatives. We are end user's just like you that have been asked to simply help out with the online community. If there are enough requests to Reolink support about it, they may escalate to the dev team.

[Daniel Breuer_406268733272281]