Best posts made by joseph_1979

@user_848961925890273_848961925890273 We have requested this to be an option for the customers. Submit your request too on support @ reolink . Com. The more requests they get the higher the probability of seeing it implemented.

@chopstix That means that we are reading what you write :). Joking. Sometimes I text while in a boring meeting which I don't chair and won't check my typing....

@luke_537322793328769 Technically the upgrade of the fw will not change any setting unless you don't tag reset config parameter. However, this has to be confirmed by supplier. Email support.

@user_787611872723133_787611872723133 You have the full rights to provide positive and negative feedback as long as they are not offensive. Here we suggest ideas and improvements but it is Reolink to decide whether to implement or not. They have their strategies.

Personally the ads don't affect me at all. If they do I just simply ignore. They are on the main menu of the application which I seldom select. So I do not see this as an issue.

I am a customer like you and on this issue I can't help. So I suggest you to take it up with Reolink Support.

@kimchigun Let make some calculations.

20,000mAh is 20 Ah. The battery capacity, volts times amp-hours, is about 3.6 x 20 = 72 Wh. The maximum input power is 5 x 1.2 = 6 W. Assuming a 10% power tolerance from the panel (regulator) the charge time in bright sunlight, continually facing the sun, would be 72/6/0.9 = 13.3 hours. However the charge might taper the charge current towards the end of charge so it would actually be longer than that....say 16 hours. Therefore we need a higher wattage solar panel .... at least a 12W panel which yields to 7 hours of bright sunlight.

@sibedad I have several cams from Reolink and never had any major issue. Wherever possible avoid battery cams. But it is better than nothing.

@dave_wat_ BroadBand router............connected to ISP.

@chopstix I used to design, implement and carry out the acceptance testing of mobile networks :). I know to what you were referring to but as I explained an IMSI (i.e. Physical SIM) consists of 16 digits, the first 5-6 are the MCC and MNC . The MCC is the mobile country code which is 222 for Italy (like the Telephone country code +39) and MNC is the Mobile Network code, namely, the operator. eg 299 1mobile, 08 fast web, etc. So each operator will only authenticate the IMSI range assigned to him by the local Communication Authority. So to connect to different networks one needs to have different SIMs. Note that I am excluding MVNOs which are operators which use the mobile infrastructure of another operator. These MVNOs normally use different IMSI range. So to connect to two distinct mobile operators, you need two SIMs.

The two way radio units you mentioned still use SIMs. These use packet data only. Most operators assigned these units M2M SIMs. Any device which connects to 4G networks requires a SIM. The only exception is when calling the emergency number in which case there is no IMSI authentication. Some people remove the IMSI and make a prank call to the emergency service. They think that they cannot be traced. They are stupid as the operator has the IMEI of the phone through which the call has been made.

Let see with what they come out.

@reolink-oskar so far it can identify an object, namely, person, animal, vehicle, etc. We now need to identify who is that object eg...face recognition, access social media to get info about the person,....if animal which animal, car which model, etc.....Enhanced AI.

@reolink-daisy With this newer firmware, the image in clear mode has low contrast/saturation, colours are muted, and the density is light. This may be due to lower fps (from 25 to 20) and lower bitrate (from 8k to 5k). I assume that the optimisation of ONVIF has lowered the definition. Would the dev team consider restoring these values?

Moreover before updating, I had full WIFI signal strength and now nothing as depicted below. I also noticed that to access the camera and get to the live view, it is taking around 1.5s more.

@chopstix
It couldn't be a local eSIM as local mobile operators won't allow it. So it has to be an operator who has roaming agreement with all mobile operators. Then the MCC + MNC of the IMSI will be mapped to a Global Title and MAP messages forwarded to the serving operator. Charging will be handled by this operator.

Note that in the description it is stated that the SIM is included. So we are there.... similar to the P2P servers provided by AWS.

@user_811568924922088_811568924922088 Apart from reset and start all over you have two more options.

1. Change the ssid and password of the new router to be the same as the old ones.
2. From your smartphone change the ssid and password of the hotspot to be like the old ones. Then from a pc access the doorbell camera and change the wifi network to the new one.

@crimp-on_62210811129 This should be included as part of the 'About' in the client. 10 minutes job.

Now they have reduced the number of client instances to 3. Previously it was 5. Processor usage ... average 2.5%.

@Daisy. Kindly include what has been added, removed and improved in the new Windows client. And it will be nice to have these in the 'About' menu.

@chopstix I have moved from software development to senior technical architect to teaching and now consultant on security (not cameras :)). 1992... at that time there was pascal and C.

@big_ted Well....it states worried about missing package. Then what about if for one reason or another the camera is unavailable. Do we get a notification? No...... and this is more important than the package.

@jing_734911040270566 I suggest you to take it up with support. For sure there was a change in player and they are using 3 instances. I am running v8.16.10 without any issues on both Win 10 and 11.

@big_ted If you use their SIM then you need to roam over a local mobile operator with whom they have agreement. So customers have to buy a data package from Reolink. Reolink will have various operators offering SIM data services eg.. 1 in EU to cover EU countries which have roaming like at home.

@reolink-oskar This all boils down to costs. One of the key advantages of full colour night vision technology is that it offers clear and vivid colour images, even in near complete darkness say as low as 0.0005 lux. This is made possible by having a massive 1/1.2'' CMOS image sensor to capture more light, as well as a warm light that reaches up to 200ft. The technology has come a long way in recent years and continues to improve, making it a popular choice for cameras. There are also a couple different technologies to achieve full color. Some of the more affordable full color cameras use a built in warm light that can go as far as 100ft. More advanced cameras utilize two lenses. One lens captures visible light and the other captures infrared, both are then combined with clever programming to achieve a multi-spectral image. This means that with the same 100ft warm light, you can see even further in the dark.

Another technology is thermal imaging technology which captures the temperature difference between objects. They use microbolometers to detect different amounts of infrared light which are then converted to images of heat signatures. Since these cameras can identify heat patterns, they can see even in zero light and when there’s smoke present. So thermal night vision cameras are very useful for security where visual clarity is important regardless of the lighting condition.

@big_ted but this is a collection of video and audio codecs used by Windows and its software. If I am Reolink developer I will include the codecs used as is done by most media player like VLC.

Anyhow I don't have this pack and I have no issue. Once I found out that their player was calling DirectX ddls which where not in my system and had to install DirectX redist.....and it worked.

I have no time to debug....busy

@reolink-oskar But why the changelog is missing from the download center?