Posts made by Crimp On_62210811129

Another solution is to root the phone and replace the stock notification sound with one you prefer. Every time I try to use the link button to include a URL, my post gets rejected. A search for "root Moto G3" turns up references to Magisk, one of the primary tools for rooting Android phones.

There is an example of using the Tasker app to replace notification sounds on the Task web FAQ.

If you were doing this on your actual "Daily Driver" phone, I think it may be difficult to have some notification sounds be LOUD and others not be.

I imagine Push Alerts come through very quickly. I had wondered if it was possible to trigger an action when a specific email arrives. i.e. one that is from Reolink or has "Motion" in the subject. I have searched for how one might do this and not come up with anything. Probably not using a specific enough search term.

I would email support and say, "send me a link to this firmware you told me to install."

I agree. Would even go so far as to ask to be able to specify the notification sound for each camera and the volume level.

I have been frustrated for some time wondering, "Where is the d**n motion???" The camera made a recording, so the camera thought "something changed", but WHAT??? By random chance today, I saw a post that explained the VLC Media Player has an "advanced option" to detect motion. I use VLC all the time to look at recordings sent to my FTP server. Sure enough, that option puts a white rectangle around pixels that have changed from one frame to another.

I am not 100% happy with VLC because it seems to ignore the BIG motion changes, such as bright headlights moving across the B&W screen at night. My guess is that it is only the "edges" of objects that appear to "change" from one FRAME to another. The body of a possum, for example seems to be pretty much the same as it walks across the screen. It's the feet and tail that appear to "move".

Still, I am so excited to have stumbled across this feature of VLC that I wanted to share.

SUCCESS. This time, I left the Reolink Client (Windows) "open", but hidden behind other windows.
Set the hour 5-6 for 'timed' and 6-7 for 'motion', and both worked.
All of my five RLC cameras produced mp4 files in the identified directory. From 5-6, each file was 311MB, one every five minutes.84 files times 311MB chews through storage in a hurry.
Starting at 6pm, only motion is being recorded. (Neighbor's cat. Cars driving by. etc.) These motion files begin about 8-10 seconds before motion begins and stop the INSTANT that motion ends. (Unlike SD Card recordings which go on for some time.)
Both VLC Media Player and 5KPlayer display these files, "no problem."
This recording option is certainly quick and easy to set up, but having to keep the client app open all the time would be impractical for me. I'd rather use FTP, which happens directly between camera and FTP server.

There are LOTS of differences between PC and Mac. Could be the Mac version has a bug.

My experiment is a total failure. So far, there are zero files in the folder specified in the Windows Client settings for Record. To be fair, the client window has been minimized at the bottom of the screen. Maybe that makes the Client "dormant" or something. I will give it one last shot with the Client actually OPEN on the screen (totally in the way, but what the heck).

Well, the experiment is not going well. I set up "Timing" record in the Client for the hour of 6pm today and expected all of my PoE cameras to product one file each. And got.... Nada. No files at all. Then, I noticed the inconsistent parameters. Maximum video file length of 5 minutes. But... I just said to record for an hour! Which is correct?

Have reset the video file length to 61 minutes and to record for an hour later this evening. Will report.

Thanks for the explanation. I was aimed at the individual camera FTP configurations, which have the same options.
The general configuration does not mention FTP, so my guess is that you are correct. The client must be doing the recording.
I will try that as well.

I will test this with the Windows client. Just to be sure that I understand, on the FTP screen I set some time "blocks" to "Timer" rather than "motion", correct?

I have advocated for a "minimum length of motion" setting for years precisely because of objects that do not appear on the camera long enough to make any sense looking at.
Unfortunately, this type of setting will probably not be effective for avoiding rain. There is not "one drop" of rain that comes and goes away. There are hundreds of drops appearing constantly for (hours?) and they may appear over a large part of the area viewed by the camera. That would seem to call for a different type of artificial intelligence, i.e. if cameras can now detect "cars", "animals", and even "packages" (not Reolink), they should be able to detect "rain."

There has been no change to the WD Cloud server software? Each of my cameras FTP's to a different folder in my Filezilla FTP server, and I use a dedicated folder for transfers from the SD cards to my PC.

What are the three MPEG programs that complain?

The (very slick) web page clearly shows "Argus" as one of the available cameras, which is not correct. I was a Kickstarter backer of that first battery camera and still have two of them. They are NOT included in this capability.

Alas, the exercise is moot unless you have an Echo Show to view the camera feed on. The Alexa App on my phone refuses to play camera video. It would be easier to watch the front door if I could just tell Alexa (or Google) "Play front door cam", rather than open the Reolink app, hit the down arrow 10 times until it finally decides to open the list of cameras, and then... oh, darn. whoever was at the door is gone now.

I am confused by the combination of (a) file viewers and (b) Reolink Client. I have RLC-410-5MP, RLC-420-5MP, and RLC-510WS cameras on my network. I use the Reolink Windows Client to view them live and also in Playback. I also can download from the camera SD cards to my PC. These cameras also FTP motion recordings to a FileZilla FTP server on my PC.

I use VLC Player and 5KPlayer to view the FTP recordings. Both report that they are MPEG-4. (See the descriptions from 5KPlayer and Media-Info below.)

My confusion is because the Reolink Client is not involved in FTP file transfer. The file goes directly from the camera to the FTP server. My Reolink Client is almost never open, yet my motion records transfer via FTP all the time.

I am probably missing something. Sorry.

5K Player
General
Complete name : D:\Reolink\FrontDoorCam\2021\10\01\Front Door Cam_00_20211001144606.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp41/iso2/avc1/dash)
File size : 56.5 MiB
Duration : 56s 0ms
Overall bit rate : 8 456 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2021-10-01 21:46:07
Tagged date : UTC 2021-10-01 21:46:07

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=60

Media Info
General
Complete name : D:\Reolink\FrontDoorCam\2021\10\01\Front Door Cam_00_20211001144606.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp41/iso2/avc1/dash)
File size : 56.5 MiB
Duration : 56 s 0 ms
Overall bit rate : 8 456 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2021-10-01 21:46:07
Tagged date : UTC 2021-10-01 21:46:07

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings : CABAC / 1 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=60
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 55 s 976 ms
Bit rate : 8 389 kb/s
Width : 2 560 pixels
Height : 1 920 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
Minimum frame rate : 29.412 FPS
Maximum frame rate : 40.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.057
Stream size : 56.0 MiB (99%)
Language : English
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 56 s 0 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 64.0 kb/s
Nominal bit rate : 127 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel layout : C
Sampling rate : 16.0 kHz
Frame rate : 15.625 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 438 KiB (1%)
Language : English

Sort of disappointing that the Windows Client states that 8.3.1 "This is the most current version available", whereas the Reolink web site says that Client 8.3.2 was posted on Sept 24 (5 days ago).

So Sad.

Do not see an attachment?

Also interested in predicted time line. My RLC-510WA (ends with "A") camera does not support this feature.
Can someone please remind me how users learn of new firmware for cameras?
I see that the previous Support Center link to Firmware Updates no longer appears. (It was very handly to pull up that page and see, "Still no new firmware since April 7".) Should customers now bookmark the firmware page for each of their cameras and open those pages from time-to-time?

It was a good idea to test the camera before mounting it on the roof. The RLC-423 camera specifies a cable length of up to 330 ft. (100 Meters) I suspect there may be a flaw in the cable of the PoE injector. I would test the camera with a different cable (of any length). If that works, there is something wrong with the cable besides length.

If an ICMP packet does not arrive at an E1 camera, the camera cannot respond.
How can ICMP packets get to a Chromecast when they cannot get to an E1 camera?

Will Papertrail collect ICMP packets? That would be an ideal substitute for Wireshark.
The "fixed IP's" are done (a) by setting a Static IP on the camera, or (b) by entering the camera MACaddress into a router table so that it always assigned the same IP?

Dang. I wish I had a way to create multiple subnets. My WiFi router creates only one /24 subnet for all devices (wired, primary WiFi, Guest WiFi). Would love to capture packets on that 192.168.10.0/24 subnet and see if the E1 responds to those pings at all, or if it responds and they do not make it back to 192.168.1.0/24.

Since the E1 does not have a web interface, the goal is to monitor the E1 using the Windows or Mac client software?

I am pretty certain that RLC cameras accept connections from anywhere, so it seems strange that the E1's would be "different".