Button Colors

[Acewiza]

I thought the little round console buttons on the left were just a network connection state. Then I noticed when I stop ZM, some cams show a red button and some show orange. The Reolinks show red and the Hikvisions show orange. Anybody know what that means or why they might show a different status on daemon stop?

[kitkat]

My best guess at what the colours mean is...

Red if the monitor isn't running or can't be connected to, or if the capture rate is 0 FPS.
Orange if the analysis rate is 0 FPS except when in Monitor or NoDect mode (perhaps record should be in there as well).
Green otherwise.

I've no idea why you see different colours for the same (stopped) state though.

[dougmccrary]

Maybe to do with the stream string.

Acewiza:
can you give example source strings for the two types of camera?

[Acewiza]

Hikvision gets: rtsp://login:password@ip.address:554/H264/ch1/main/av_stream

Reolink gets: rtsp://login:password@ip.address:554/h264Preview_01_main

One clue I see in the Reolink client is a "Performance" section showing CPU utilization on the camera itself. At minimal settings (6fps) the cam still apears to run around 80% with motion turned off locally. Until proven otherwise, I'll just deem the Reolink RLC-410s junk. I trashed the RLC-423 I had a couple months ago after failing to sort it out. No more Reolinks for me.

[Acewiza]

Betcha Reolink marketing figured they'd undercut the pricing on these POE bullets by offering high-res optics using crap processors. Most people who buy these things have 1 or 2 cams and never look at anything except the proprietary client view. Forget trying to connect it to something in any sort of more advanced system.

Anybody have ZM running RLC-410s well?

[dougmccrary]

Is there a low res secondary stream on the reo’s?

[Acewiza]

Certainly. Who wants that? The sub stream is just a grainy 640x480.