Reolink RLC-410 Data Streams

[DerGraf]

Reolink RLC-410-5MP works only on 1.30.4 by now.

I have some VM with various 1.32 for testing but no luck with Reolink.

I think the capture height from @janw is taken from VLC MediaInfo Buffer Size. On my 5MP it say Video-Resolution is 2560x1440 and Buffer Size is 2560x1442. When i set a height of 1442 in Zoneminder i got 20% more CPU Load. So it´s a VLC thing and a height of 1440 is correct.

Hope the developers find a solution for Reolink users.

[TheSwert]

One thing I had to do to make all of my Reolink camera stop smearing is to use the RTMP urls. They're not well documented, but it solved my smearing issues.

https://reolink.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... -v1.61.pdf

Example for sub stream and main stream below. You set those to be your source path and then set the method to TCP.

Sub stream:

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rtmp://192.168.1.100/bcs/channel0_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=password

Main Stream:

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rtmp://192.168.1.100/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=password

[DerGraf]

Using rtmp stream really works. No smearing at the moment on 1.32.3

Thanks for the great workaround.

[abarrafo]

I was unable to connect via RTSP, or FFMPG as suggested resulted in constantly bleeding/f*ed up video feed.

I ended up taking a cue from the BlueIris forums, and instead am trying ffmpg with rtmp path.. So far, seems like a better video feed, but sometimes the ffmpg with rtsp looked ok also. Crossing my fingers.

Example ffmpg path:
rtmp://10.0.0.11:1935/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD

[FlippingBinary]

One thing I had to do to make all of my Reolink camera stop smearing is to use the RTMP urls. They're not well documented, but it solved my smearing issues.

https://reolink.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... -v1.61.pdf

Example for sub stream and main stream below. You set those to be your source path and then set the method to TCP.

Sub stream:

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rtmp://192.168.1.100/bcs/channel0_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=password

Main Stream:

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rtmp://192.168.1.100/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=password

This worked for me with my Reolink RLC-420. The video stream has been stable for nearly a week now. Massive improvement! Thank you, TheSwert!

[sogood007]

using RTMP works for me too. I almost want to swap out the RLC-410. Thanks

[gentoo]

Ffmpeg with RTMP works for me too with RLC-411 and RLC-420 (gentoo with 1.32.3) Thanks!

[diode]

Is there any difference between the channels in the documentation examples? They have main, sub, and ext--are those related to the quality of feeds by any chance? Are these relative to Reolinks Clear, Fluent, and Blend streams? If that's the case, are the associations as follows; main=clear, sub=Fluent, ext=blend?

Preview URL
rtmp://192.168.2.119/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=123456
rtmp://192.168.2.119/bcs/channel0_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=1&user=admin&password=123456
rtmp://192.168.2.119/bcs/channel0_ext.bcs?channel=0&stream=2&user=admin&password=123456

One thing I had to do to make all of my Reolink camera stop smearing is to use the RTMP urls. They're not well documented, but it solved my smearing issues.

https://reolink.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... -v1.61.pdf

Example for sub stream and main stream below. You set those to be your source path and then set the method to TCP.

Sub stream:

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rtmp://192.168.1.100/bcs/channel0_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=password

Main Stream:

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rtmp://192.168.1.100/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=password

This worked for me with my Reolink RLC-420. The video stream has been stable for nearly a week now. Massive improvement! Thank you, TheSwert!

[FlippingBinary]

Is there any difference between the channels in the documentation examples? They have main, sub, and ext--are those related to the quality of feeds by any chance? Are these relative to Reolinks Clear, Fluent, and Blend streams? If that's the case, are the associations as follows; main=clear, sub=Fluent, ext=blend?

I believe that is correct, but I haven't tried ext. The sub stream is fluent because it is lower quality and uses less data.

[nobodyAtall]

I've tried the rtmp route but still not working for me with the following log entries:

INF [zmc_m4] [Priming capture from rtmp://192.168.1.110/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=pass]
WAR [zmc_m4] [Option rtsp_transport not recognized by ffmpeg]
INF [zmc_m4] [Stream open rtmp://192.168.1.110/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=panatha13, parsing streams...]
INF [zmc_m4] [Monitor-4: images:700 - Capturing at 12.50 fps, capturing bandwidth 426952bytes/sec]
ERR [zmc_m4] [Unable to read packet from stream 0: error -11 "Resource temporarily unavailable".]
INF [zmc_m4] [Return from Capture (-1), signal loss]
INF [zmc_m4] [Failed to capture image from monitor 4 Monitor-4 (1/1)]

I have an RLC-410 and ffplay works just fine with the above stream link so it's not a camera issue. My ZM version is 1.32.3 and I'm on Ubuntu 16.04

Source Type: Ffmpeg
Source Path: rtmp://192.168.1.110/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=pass
Method: TCP
Capture width: 2560
Capture height: 1920

Any ideas what might be going on?

[mgranger]

I too have been having some issues with my Reolink cameras RLC-410 and RLC-422. I have been experiencing this since October 2018 when I upgraded Zoneminder to 1.32. I have tried main and sub streams and nothing works. I have dialed the quality all the way down and no luck. I hope this gets fixed soon.

[FlippingBinary]

I too have been having some issues with my Reolink cameras RLC-410 and RLC-422. I have been experiencing this since October 2018 when I upgraded Zoneminder to 1.32. I have tried main and sub streams and nothing works. I have dialed the quality all the way down and no luck. I hope this gets fixed soon.

Have you tried the rtmp URLs above instead of rtsp? It still works like a charm for me with RLC-420.

[mgranger]

I too have been having some issues with my Reolink cameras RLC-410 and RLC-422. I have been experiencing this since October 2018 when I upgraded Zoneminder to 1.32. I have tried main and sub streams and nothing works. I have dialed the quality all the way down and no luck. I hope this gets fixed soon.

Have you tried the rtmp URLs above instead of rtsp? It still works like a charm for me with RLC-420.

This worked perfectly. I guess I passed over the fact the streams were RTMP rather than RTSP. Thanks for the help.

[philhowes]

So after searching and trial and error I got my RLC-410 camera working with both the high quality and low quality video using low quality as a detector and recording the high quality. Anyway to save others (and myself in the future) from this trial and error here are the settings.

High Quality after you have set it up in the on-line site as clear

Source Ffmpeg
rtsp://user:password@ipaddress:554/h264Preview_01_main
RTP/RTSP
Capture width and pixels as set

Low Quality set up on-line as fluent

Source Ffmpeg
rtsp://user:password@ipaddress:554/h264Preview_01_sub
RTP/RTSP
Capture width and pixels as set

Hope that helps someone it took me way to long to figure out how to get both streams working.

This is great, it helped me set up my cameras. Thanks. I've set up the sub as modect, and the main as monitor but linked to the sub, but it seems to only record the sub. How have you got them set up? Thanks in advance.

[diode]

Anyone else having any issues with alarm triggering and recording with the reolink cameras? I can record a streaming event just fine, but when I try and set up the feed for a modect sometimes the alarm will record just fine and other times the image will freeze half way through and then catch up towards the end. I have plenty of memory (16GB with only 5 cameras) and the load never exceeds 4.0 on a 12 process CPU. I'm trying to play with the h.264 profiles in the reolink encoder settings to see if that will help at all, but I figured I'd reach out in the meantime to see if anyone cares to share their camera and ZM settings that are working for them.