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Hi Carl- From what Ive researched, your company intentionally disables 3rd party cameras from working with your NVRs. Thats fine and is absolutely your perogative, however I wish you would have given a straight and honest answer instead of recommending that I "lower my bitrate" of my 3rd party camera to try and make it work.

For everyone else-

Ok, so after doing some research I probably should have realized this earlier- Reolink has embedded code prohibiting 3rd party cameras connecting to their systems. Pretty crappy for us guys who have cameras from multiple vendors. But I get it- in a market this saturated it makes sense to lock down your NVR. Still though- I definitely would have been a repeat customer with Reolink if they allowed 3rd party cameras---- but no way now.


Below is taken from a review of their system off Amazon-


"One thing I noticed when attempting to pick apart their firmware:
There is a dvr.xml file that appears to contain parameters

Previous firmware:
support_rtspauth="1"
support_onvifauth="1"
support_onvif="1"
support_rtsp="1"

New fimware:
support_rtspauth="0"
support_onvifauth="0"
support_onvif="0"
support_rtsp="0"
support_change_dvr_cameramode="0"

It looks like they disabled onvif and rtsp on the NVR. This shouldn't effect Reolink cameras at all, but might possibly cause issues if you're using other 3rd party cameras with the NVR."