Posts made by joseph_1979

@fido_793104815919335 Does the Asus Zenwifi XT8 have POE ports? Can you tell us how the network is setup?

Try to use the cable of working POE camera and see if you are able to connect. Try to add it using the UID.

@alessiogian_760987134431472 use the Windows or Android client go to networks/advanced and enable https/http.

@christian_kubat_529310527582451 You need to email support on support @ reolink . com

@user_875416721178867_875416721178867 If you have WIFI then you have power. If you are able to get a power point in the vicinity then you can opt for a mains powered WIFI cam. Or better run a cat5 cable and connect it to a POE switch. Then opt for a POE camera. These cameras rely detection on pixel changes and so have longer range say 30m or above.

The only battery cam provided by Reolink is the battery Trackmix with a big solar panel. But this is very costly.

@joel-rollier_863093175640274 the vertical field of view is the same. You just enlarged the picture.

@joel-rollier_863093175640274 Unfortunately there is no feature to enlarge the vertical FOV of the Argus 4 Pro. For the nearly 180 degrees cams, they have really lowered the vertical FOV. We have noticed this on most cams like DUO 3 vs DUO 2, RLC-811WA vs RLC-511WA, etc. At reddit community, the moderator seems to have most of the cams released and he did the comparison. He even stated that some have less FOV than what has been specified in the specifications.

I did request support to ask the hw team to widen the vertical FOV. The sensor allows this but don't know the reason behind it. Maybe they are using the same processors which don't have sufficient processing power to provide this? So they increase the horizontal FOV at the expense of the vertical FOV.

@iulian-tatarcan_132045030453418 I did ask Reolink for this too. It should be transparent to customers. Didn't get any feedback.

@mench304_423698008174836 email your suggestion to support. Most probably they won't read our requests or comments made here.

@user_875416721178867_875416721178867 Battery cams can only record based on event trigger. For 24x7 you need to have the Atlas PT but this can do the 24x7 for 96 hours per charge.

@nick_26792935116 You may not see the effect right now but by time.

@crimp-on_62210811129 Uh you are right. I mistakenly checked the one adjacent to it which is RLC811WA. Thanks.

@merbine_640217202712690 How about having a 4G router and then connect to the cameras through WIFI. Then you would opt for a mains powered camera which provides 24x7 recording and a detection range of 100 feet.

@hk-devices_510046838391027 The charging circuit limits the charging current and so you have to use the rated one. Try to contact supplier on support @ reolink . com

@rpotter28_851891842711683 Yes, you can set the mode to timer during which time the spotlight will be on as illustrated below.

@user_790914341261457_790914341261457 If you use the SD cards only, then you can either record on event detection or 24x7. These are mutually exclusive. To have both then you need an NVR or an HA (using ONVIF/RTSP). For 24x7 recording on SD, ensure that it is of high endurance.

And for NTP you can set a local NTP server or just allow port 123 through a firewall. Whatever is the easiest.

Yes, if you record solely on SD then the only bandwidth used is when you view the camera.

@user_790914341261457_790914341261457 consider an average bandwidth of 8Mbps for 8MP camera then for 100 cams recording all the time you need a bandwidth of 800Mbps. So 1G network is more than adequate. You can play 4k movies too and you won't experience any delays.

If you won't use push/email notification and you don't want to access the cameras from an external network then there is no need for the camera to have access to the Internet. Just either record to the internal SD or NVR or HA or ftp server.

Consider a backup of the recordings. If camera is stolen then you have no recordings. Normal practice is to record events on SD and 24x7 on NVR.

@user_863771412115668_863771412115668 Better to opt for an NVR which will be also accessible from anywhere.

@reolink-cam_813700743893181 Most network surveillance camera streams are made up of I-frames and P-frames, I-frames are full image captures that record everything the camera is seeing and P-frames are the frames between the I-frames where only the elements of the image that are changing are refreshed.

To explain this with an example, if you had an empty corridor and someone walked down it the I-frame would capture the entire image and then the following P-frames would only capture the elements of the image that are changing, which in this case would be the person walking.

The idea behind this is that it is another way to compress the bitrate of the camera stream because instead of capturing 25 full-resolution images every second you are capturing one full image every 50 frames (e.g. 2 seconds) and then all the frames in between only capture what changes in the image and thus are much smaller files/use less bitrate.

Reducing the I-frame interval (25 frames, 10 frames, etc...) will obviously increase the bitrate/bandwidth used by the camera and is only really recommended if you are installing the camera in a very busy scene where having the full image refresh more regularly can improve image detail. Increasing the I-frame interval (75 frames, 100 frames, etc...) will decrease the bandwidth used and is only really recommended when covering scenes with little to no activity as you will see a drop in image quality and maybe even distortion to any movement that happens between the I-frames.

Now as regards the new fw, ensure you have the latest one cited in the Download center. I have the WIFI trackmix and the first fw released included ONVIF but at the expense of lower resolution at clear mode. In fact the colours appeared washed out. We have requested to restore max bit rate and fps and the definition is merely the say as the old fw. There are some issues on the new fw. Do a search on Trackmix fw and you shall find a thread on this.

@user_867198496854215_867198496854215 just search my posts on P2P relay servers and you will find everything.

@crimp-on_62210811129 The timeline scrubber is a timer with a red or different colour line that indicates a point in time in the scene where the object was first detected. You can drag the time scrubber along the timeline to jump to a specific time in the scene.

I have seen this on Trackmix with the latest firmware and on Android. Not so accurate but at least they started.