Reolink Camera Plugin -

[Alias-ZA]

My setup:

Home Assistant OS on Intel NUC
Scrypted 0.57.0
Reolink NVR (RLN16-410)
8 x RLC-811A
1 x Reolink Doorbell POE

All cameras are wired to the NVR with CAT 6. NVR is wired to network.

I can load the RTMP stream of the Doorbell (Channel 0) into HA (Generic Camera) and a webhook for the still - this works perfectly and as expected.

If I then go and add the next "normal" camera, it works as expected and on Scrypted I can see the still image and the feed is there if I click on the image. Looks to all be working fine.

If I then go to add this camera (Channel 9) to a generic card - I get a timeout error. Opening the console of the camera in scrypted I see the below error: [Rebroadcast Plugin]: RTMP main.bcs prebuffer session ended with error Error: ffmpeg killed before sdp could be parsed

Similar to this: #1146 - my password is simple though (instacam), all lowercase and no special char - works fine with the doorbell.

Screenshots

[Rebroadcast Plugin]: RTMP main.bcs prebuffer session started
[Rebroadcast Plugin]: RTMP main.bcs prebuffer session starting
stream url rtmp://10.0.4.5:1935/bcs/channel9_main.bcs?channel=9&stream=0&user=admin&password=instacam
[Rebroadcast Plugin]: -hide_banner -fflags +genpts -i rtmp:[REDACTED] -rtsp_transport tcp -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f rtsp rtsp://127.0.0.1:35049/d0e8ab99328f929c
debug event:
 [{"cmd":"GetMdState","code":0,"value":{"state":0}}]
[Rebroadcast Plugin]: rtmp://admin:[email protected]:1935/bcs/channel9_main.bcs?channel=9&stream=0&user=admin&password=instacam: End of file
[Rebroadcast Plugin]: ffmpeg exited
[Rebroadcast Plugin]: rebroadcast error Error: ffmpeg exited
[Rebroadcast Plugin]:     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/@scrypted/prebuffer-mixin/main.nodejs.js:1:76176)
[Rebroadcast Plugin]:     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:526:35)
[Rebroadcast Plugin]:     at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:489:12)
[Rebroadcast Plugin]:     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:291:12)
[Rebroadcast Plugin]: RTMP main.bcs prebuffer session ended with error Error: ffmpeg killed before sdp could be parsed
[Rebroadcast Plugin]:     at /@scrypted/prebuffer-mixin/main.nodejs.js:1:76493
[Rebroadcast Plugin]:     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
[Rebroadcast Plugin]: Reolink Camera restarting prebuffer session in 5 seconds
debug event:
 [{"cmd":"GetMdState","code":0,"value":{"state":0}}]
debug event:
 [{"cmd":"GetMdState","code":0,"value":{"state":0}}]
debug event:
 [{"cmd":"GetMdState","code":0,"value":{"state":0}}]
debug event:
 [{"cmd":"GetMdState","code":0,"value":{"state":0}}]

Am I missing something stupid here?

[koush]

Would connect to camera directly if possible.

[Alias-ZA]

So not via the NVR?

[Alias-ZA]

Okay, I have taken all the cameras out of the NVR and they are now directly powered and plugged in via my Unifi Dream Machine Pro SE.

I deleted all the entries in scrypted, restarted the HA server and re-added the camera's each with their own IP address.

I get the same error. First camera works fine, the rest have the rebroadcast error.

Any ideas?

[Alias-ZA]

Figured out the issue is related to the RLC-811A outputting 4k h265 which Scrypted doesn't like.

I can downrate the stream to 1440p which works BUT I seem to lose significant FOV. This is likely a Reolink implementation thing but won't really work with my implementation.

I do have an Unraid server with a Nvidia 1070 GPU - can I install Scrypted on docker and transcode the 4k h265 to h264? Will only be for streaming - NVR will do the recording.

[alexgorbatchev]

Check if you have the latest firmware, I had to upgrade my RLC-822A to get 4k streaming to work.

[gmcinalli]

@alexgorbatchev I've the latest firmware for my 811A, and the FOV is really reduced if I throw the stream resolution down to 2K.

[hyperbart]

I have a RLC810 and indeed, when I changed stream quality to 2560x1440p the camera works (i also had the error ffmpeg killed before sdp could be parsed).

Going to check if I need to do a FW upgrade

[hyperbart]

I have upgraded the firmware to the latest version (below) but issue i still there. Biggest problem is indeed the FOV that changes when changing the resolution.

[jeremyward]

Did you have any luck with this? I've got the same issue.

[hyperbart]

@koush i see this was originally an issue but you converted it to a discussion.
Isn't this a real issue that should be looked at via a bug report/issue?