Posts made by joseph_1979

@user_727999352516787_727999352516787 Hi Mitch,

Your client is directly connected to the camera IF AND ONLY IF both the PC running the client and the camera are on the same network. This is really P2P. However, when you are on an external public network such as mobile network or on a WIFI network other than that where the cameras are connected to, your PC running the client establishes a connection with an Amazon (mostly as it may use Azure) server. This server has a connection to your camera and the media flows from camera to this P2P Relay server back to your PC and conversely from the PC to the P2P Relay server to the camera. If you are familiar with networking then you can use Wireshark on your PC and see the UDP packets destination IP address. Go to WHOIS IP and you will get Amazon. You shall even see the client sending DNS queries (A record) to get the IPs of the P2P servers.....Reolink have reserved 16 P2P IP addresses but only 8 are used, the others pointing to the loopback IP. I did explained this in details in various articles in the community. Try to search them.

Or else if you wish to share the trace I will show you. I can teach you to pursue a Master Degree in Telecoms/Networking if you pay me accordingly :).

See the trace below. So the camera is sending packets to the Amazon P2P server which in turn forwards it to my PC (local IP since the NAT is done at the router side). Go to the Internet and search for whois IP and enter 35.180.0.0 and it will give you the company using this range. In the 192.168. UDP packet, the client acknowledges the packet received.

Amazon Data Services France AMAZON-CDG (NET-35-180-0-0-1) 35.180.0.0 - 35.180.255.255

So I will send you the bill........address pls :).

@railfan-arizona_485965826351268 one more test pls. Take note of the UID of the camera you powered off/on . From the client delete it. Then add it again using the UID.

@das-dos_208145718501556 You're welcome. Enjoy programming....it is unbelievable fun in particular C++.

@joseph_1979 Typing error.

Here it comes.

curl -s -k -X POST -H "Content-Type : application/json" -d "[{\"cmd\":\"SetEnc\",\"action\":0,\"param\":{\"Enc\":{\"channel\":0,\"audio\":1,\"mainStream\":{\"size\":\"3840*2160\",\"frameRate\":25,\"bitRate\":8192,\"gop\":2,\"profile\":\"High\"},\"subStream\":{\"size\":\"640*360\",\"frameRate\":10,\"bitRate\":512,\"gop\":4,\"profile\":\"High\"}}}}]" "https://192.168.X.X/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=SetEnc&user=#username#&password=#passwd#"

If it works then I am better than chatgbt :). Don't forget to reboot after.

@das-dos_208145718501556 Oops sorry to hear that it didn't work. Let me check it on my camera.

@railfan-arizona_485965826351268 So the P2P Relay servers (provided by AWS/Azure) are not being updated with the cameras IPs since it is also happening with 8.8.5. Stockton may be using a different P2P server and the camera is constantly sending the HB packets. Can you ask someone to power off/on one of the cameras and check again?

They need to listen to us, the genuine customers. The application is not that massive (like a mobile network which requires a full 12 months of intensive testing :)), just set a test list and voila'.

@das-dos_208145718501556 Only the Initial was enough to know what is missing. So we need to add the I-Frame interval parameter gop.

Check again :).

curl -s -k -X POST -H "Content-Type : application/json" -d "[{\"cmd": \"SetEnc\",\"action\": 0,\"param\": {\"Enc\": {\"channel\": 0,\"audio\": 1,\"mainStream\": {\"size\": \"3840*2160\",\"frameRate\": 25,\"bitRate\": 8192,\"gop\": 2,\"profile\": \"High\"},\"subStream\": {\"size\": \"640*360\",\"frameRate\": 15,\"bitRate\": 512,\"gop\": 4,\"profile\": \"High\"}}}" "https://192.168.X.X/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=SetEnc&user=#username#&password=#passwd#"

BTW what's the model?

@das-dos_208145718501556 It's more simpler and robust. I do have a number of Linux machines G10 in VM/OpenStack.........but no MAC/IOS :).

@das-dos_208145718501556 They should improve the API by adding appropriate error codes and update the API doc if there are changes. The error indicates that we have a missing parameter. So we need to get the printout first. Maybe we need to add gop.

Send this to get what need to be included. You should get the initial (default) and the one set (Value)

curl -s -k -X POST -H "Content-Type : application/json" -d "[{ \"cmd\":\"GetEnc\", \"action\":1, \"param\":{ \"channel\":0}}]" "https://#IP#/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=GetEnc&user=#username#&password=#passwd#

Don't worry about the private IP 172.16. 0.0 to 172.31. 255.255 (class B)....nobody will be able to access this IP from the Internet side.

@user_685202497601687_685202497601687 All Battery-Powered Cameras (incl. Argus Series, Go Series, Dual-Lens Battery Cameras, and Keen Ranger PT), E1 Series, and Reolink Lumus are supported by the cloud service.

@user_646203682046022_646203682046022 Have you communicated with Reolink support? We don't have the code and so cannot delve further about the buffers reserved and released by the applications. Typical error with programmers.

@issom Appreciate if you keep us updated. Thanks.

@user_729891662233741_729891662233741 Correct. But has to be fixed.

@railfan-arizona_485965826351268 Good. If I have the code I would have fixed it :). After you capture the traces change the password of the cameras as this will be included in the trace (encrypted for you) :).

@das-dos_208145718501556 ha haha I did that purposely for you to fix and I replied when I was having a bottle of fine wine with my friends...........Joking. I missed an escape character \. Try now. Replace the size, frame rate and bitrate with the appropriate values given in the stream menu. just follow the command in the API v8 doc provided by Reolink.

curl -s -k -X POST -H "Content-Type : application/json" -d "[{\"cmd\": \"SetEnc\",\"action\": 0,\"param\": {\"Enc\": {\"channel\": 0,\"audio\": 1,\"mainStream\": {\"size\": \"2560*1920\",\"frameRate\": 20,\"bitRate\": 4096,\"profile\": \"High\"},\"subStream\": {\"size\": \"640*480\",\"frameRate\": 10,\"bitRate\": 256,\"profile\": \"High\"}}}" "https://#IP#/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=SetEnc&user=#username#&password=#passwd#"

@riprengineer Agree. So you are an engineer too :).

@user_587919500296214_587919500296214 Win 10 or 11? PC running client is on the same network as cameras? 8.8.5 is a 32 bit client while 8.1X.Y is 64 bit.

@user_728982352179385_728982352179385 Better that you get the answer from Reolink who are the manufacturer of these cams. Send them an email.

@michel_659661158359130 We, European, have different mentality :).

@user_729406293795015_729406293795015 I do agree with your proposals. It will be evaluated by the dev team and will put it in a priority list if they agree to implement. They need to listen more to us, the customers, and implement what the customers want, of course. assuming it's a great suggestion. This is all software and can be easily implemented. I know because I am a developer too.