Posts made by carbonita_23339214035

I made a mask for the IR emitter annulus on a 411ws, and added an external 850nm illuminator. Works reasonably well for keeping the bugs away from the lens.

Yes. Another cam set up for color.

Depends on the amount of the current bill. The Wattage is listed in the specs for the products, and is typically ~10W for a cam, which is approximately 10USD/year for my area. The IR illuminators increase Wattage at night, but depends on whether one chooses to use IR. The PoE switch will have some increment of Wattage due to efficiency losses, but I hazard that it will be modest as well, IMHO.

Today, 07nov2017, the reolink firmware director shows downloads with filenames including the string 170615 (2017 june 15). The most recent visible yesterday was 170830. Should we rollback to 170615?

Any news on whether the next firmware updates for wifi cams will include a KRACK fix? My other cams/routers/APs/OSs have received updates as of this post.

I have an RLC-411ws that is able to read license plates at night (and day). I use a PC instead of NVR, and have the shutter set to 1-6ms, gain 1-95, 3D-NR turned off, adjustments to BLC and DRC, and black and white only as well. Key issues in making the plates read are the mounting of the cam to avoid headlight glare, as well as positioning such that the vehicles will moving orthogonal to the sensor plane to increase exposure time while mitigating smearing. Good enough plate reads that cloud-based OCR may be used as well.

Thanks for the link to the existing thread -- I agree this would be a key feature, but likely difficult to add if memory for the masks is limited. Alternately, a very wide angle lens (with high resolution sensor) cam would allow for a single motion-detection mask, and probably not require as much additional memory nor coding. Actually, having 4 RLC-{422,411} cams (set to 95degree wide-angle) aimed outward from a ring might work too.

How does the motion detection work when the RLC-423 is panning or patrolling? For my use-case, it would be nice if the motion detection de-activates while the camera head is moving, and re-activates when stopped at a preset position (with a separate motion detection mask for each preset). From experience with C1's, motion alerts are sent when cam begins pan.

The RLC-423 (previous version, 4MP) is PoE. I am concerned about the Krack vuln with these WiFi cams as well, though I have several Reolink's, a mix of WiFi and PoE.

One of the best features of Reolink cams are the frequent {firm,soft}ware updates. Any timeline estimates of an update which patches the Krack (WPA2 wifi) vulnerability?

Can the subject line for email alerts be changed? I'd like to set up a filter in gmail for multiple Reolink cameras. Since gmail uses the subject line to group emails in a conversation, filtering by camera name doesn't work.