Posts made by Gary D._344027431432324

Hi

I would like to second the suggestion made by gabs, I also have the 520 cameras and it also surprised me that there was not even a screw to prevent removal - unfortunately I had to mount two of mine at a low level so this is a possibility, although I have clamped one of the cables internally to make it more difficult, the other I could not.

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Hi ylouis29

I think the play/pause button being missing may be a new bug in v8.1.28, I highlighted it in a separate thread:-

https://reolink.com/topic/release-notes/

Certainly odd with your speed button disappearing, I tried your steps on my system and the speed/frame advance buttons are both still there, no play button though. My NVR sounds the same as yours just with a newer FW version:-

NVR - RL8-410
Firmware version - v3.0.0.82_20102144
Config Version - v3.0.0.0

I couldn't say if that's the reason for the difference, I'm new to all this also.

Hope that helps!

Actually that's is a good point, I think going forward I will keep copies of the previous versions but it would be handy if previous versions were also available to download.

Hi

I might be able to answer the first bit about where the speed button is located in the latest version, it's on the bottom bar on the right hand side (see the image attached). The image is from v8.1.28 but I don't remember v8.1.20 being significantly different.

Hope that helps!
Gary
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Hi Cynthia

Thanks for that and I'm glad to hear it isn't just me. It isn't a show stopping problem for me, just thought I'd point it out as it didn't look like a deliberate change.

Thanks!

I would like to also say I think a doorbell would be great addition to the NVR.
I also tried the Ring doorbell, but it didn't really work very well for me (too slow) so returned it. Later I bought a cheaper alternative which works ok most of the time, it stores clips on an SD card, can use existing doorbell wiring, has motion and doorbell notifications to the app, but can't be used with the Reolink NVR. I would replace it and buy a second doorbell for another door if a reasonably priced NVR compatible version was available.

Hi Cynthia

Yes, I think I can do that, please find attached.
It means there doesn't appear to be a way to stop the playback other than clicking beyond the playback bar but then you've lost your position.
By the way, I'm not sure the "Notify me of follow-up replies via email" is working.

Hope that helps
Gary


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Excellent! I wasn't aware it could do that, so thank you!
Does anyone know if there is an up to date user manual for the client? There is a section in the User Manual (NVR).zip about it, but is dated 2016 and seems completely different to the current version.

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Hi

Does anyone know if there are any release notes (what has changed) for the Windows Client like there is for the firmware updates?
I've just updated to v8.1.28, it looks like the Play/Pause button has disappeared in playback, not sure if that is deliberate? I was just wondering what else has changed?

Thanks
Gary

Hi

Not sure if this has already been suggested, I did a search but couldn't an existing one so apologies if it already has.

The ability to have different sensitivity settings at different times of the day is a good feature. I'm pretty sure a lot of users like me have day and night periods set up, as suggested in the user guide. An improvement to this would be if you could select "day" and "night" periods which are linked to when the infrared lights are off/on etc. Timed periods should take priority over these so you could define a day period and a period 08-10am to deal with sun rise etc.

Is just a thought.
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Hi, I would like to second Tom's suggestions above.
It's tricky to "play again" something you've just seen unless it happens to be exactly where a movement alert is (and motion is enabled).
The time bar is good, but lacks resolution if you're trying to go to a particular point in time, being able to zoom in/out of the bar so you can increase/decrease the time resolution would be one solution to this.
The frame advance button is useful, it would be handy if there was also a frame reverse button and perhaps a button to go backwards say 10 seconds or the ability to play in reverse.
Buttons to jump to the next/last motion alert would be useful or to duplicate what is in the Mobile app where you can click the event time and it jumps straight to it.
Thanks!

Hi

I have the RLK8-520D4 kit, including RLN8-410 (v2) and RLC-520 cameras. On the whole it seems like a good system but it could be great. As others have mentioned the motion detection seems tricky to set up so it reliably detects people moving in all circumstances but isn't triggered by momentary movements from insects flying past, rain, drips of water from the roof etc, particularly if you're trying to detect motion from a distance if the camera is mounted high.

The best option would be to add your new AI detection to this system but I think a simpler improvement might be to add a minimum motion duration configuration option. This could be as simple as the number of frames of "motion" detected before an alert is raised as someone walking through a scene would probably cause motion to last longer than that of for example a moth flying past the camera.

It would also be handy when setting it up to know what motion "level" is being registered by the system when you do walk tests etc.

Thanks