I use an intermediate ubuntu ftp server to send the images from the Reolink to. I then use the convert statement to reduce the size and curl to upload it to WU. This is a sceduled command every munite. This allows me to keep the hi-res versions for other things, but send the lower resolution ones to weather underground:

latestfile=$(find /home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2 -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort | tail -1); #Get the second latest picture
convert /home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2/${latestfile} -resize 40% -quality 70 /home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2/small/${latestfile}; #Convert to an WU acceptable size
curl -T "/home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2/small/${latestfile}" -u TrebaczCAM4:WUPASSWORD ftp://webcam.wunderground.com/ #Upload to WU

I also have another script that builds a 2 hour time lapse from the 1 minute shots from the camera. The script adds a time stamp to the images. It looks great on my weather page.... see the bottom of this page - https://www.trebacz.com/weather/index.html

 

I received the email today about new firmware for the 410WS. I was happy to see that they added the capability for the camera to push jpg's only (not both jpg and mp4 as before). This would save me network bandwidth and space on my ftp server. Following the documentation and learnings from the last upgrade here is the process I followed:

1. Download both new desktop and firmware.


2. Unzip the new firmware.


3. Upgrade Windows desktop software and login to the camera.


4. Make a note of all custom settings in the camera.


5. Navigate to the maintenance window, check the clear configuration box and upload the new firmware (all settings will be cleared and admin password reset).


6. After the camera reboots close and reopen desktop software (since the admin password changed). I was still connected to the camera, but couldn't save anything.


7. Login to camera with reset "blank" password.


8. Reformat the SD card.


9. Change the admin password for better security.


10. Close and reopen desktop software (since the admin password changed). I was still connected to the camera, but couldn't save anything.


11. Modify and save settings back to what you had and set the new ones.

This should not be this difficult, but seems to be the recommended procedure looking at the release notes and my practical experience. Using this procedure everything went well, but long term there needs to be a way to retain settings from upgrade to upgrade and not have to reformat the SD card.

If it is simpler than this I hope someone from Reolink can chime in and save other customers some work.

I have 4 cameras, but only one Reolink. This process keeps me from updating all the rest. That said, the camera has a great feature set. I do pitty the folks with 12+ cameras to update...

Not just you. I was also disappointed to see the reliance on flash for any features that involve live video. I've disabled flash on most of my machines.

I confirmed that the two rtsp streams work with the upgraded firmware on the RL-410WS (Version: 1168_16070803). The format of the URL that works for me is (given above):

rtsp://(user name):(password)@(ip address):554//h264Preview_01_main (1920x1090 H264)
rtsp://(user name):(password)@(ip address):554//h264Preview_01_sub (640x354 H264)

It only seems to work with admin accounts. The other account I have on my camera doesn't work. I get mp4 files though the ftp export.

It appears that the frequency of writing out jpg's (and 264 video) is controlled by the file length of the video in the ftp settings. I changed my file length from 1024 to 50. I now get a jpg approximately once a minute from the camera to my ftp server.

It also pushes the smaller video file, but I just delete those. It would be nice to turn of the video files to save the wireless bandwidth to the ftp server.

In my setup, I get 264 video and a jpg. I get about 3 jpg's and hour. I didn't see anywhere to specify one or the other or change the frequency. Definitely could use some enhanced firmware with more setting to control this. I may need to resort to writing a script to pull jpeg from the camera, since my other cameras send a jpg once a second.

Hi All,

This is what I have been using to spot check the cameras in chrome so that I don’t have to go through the reolink client. (Im using Sighthound for recording and their interface works well for browser based viewing as well. )

You will need to run this in a webserver if you are wanting to you use this remotely, but for testing you can use this on your local lan to make sure it works for you.

This code pulls the cgi-bin snapshot and uses some javascript to set a math rand with an interval of two seconds. I would not recommend anything less than 2 seconds as the image doesn’t have enough time to reload prior to being refreshed.

The rand is there so that the browser does not attempt to pull the snapshot from cache. I know this works in Chrome and I haven’t tested in any other browsers.

I have attached the source code as a file. You will need to edit your IP address, username and password.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the simple hack for a snapshot. Now if I could just get a streaming URL structure...