Recent content by pianoman

@Teshiburu, what did you end up getting? And were you able to return the Reolinks? I'm in the same boat as you but unfortunately I let the return period expire. Lesson learned here, but I'm still trying to decide what new cameras to get.

I am overwhelmed at the different cameras out there! I have been looking at cameras for so long that I have analysis paralysis. My environment has plenty of ambient lighting at night, through street lights and other landscaping lights, but I still want good IR in case the lights happen to be...

Reolink support told me yesterday that the inability to adjust i-frame rates on the RLC-820/520 is due to a hardware limitation that will NOT be fixed by any upcoming firmware releases. Return if you can, and leave a poor review if you are so inclined.

Adding an update for mine and others' reference in the future. By using the dual-stream setup instead of separate main and sub streams, I was able to achieve reasonably consistent fps/iframe rate, although with the iframe rate maxed out at 0.50 for the main stream and 0.25 for the sub stream...

Yes, they are all over the place, and they are all setup identically (with the exception of the group of (5) of the 4K cameras vs. (4) of the 5MP cameras). So far I am getting the run around from both Reolink and Amazon. I have inquired to my credit card issuer on whether or not I can...

I adjusted all of the cameras to the highest FPS allowed (25) and that didn't really yield much improvement. Then I tried raising the max bitrate to the highest (8192), same result. I'm not sure if the H.264 profile should be set to Base, Main, or High, but I didn't notice any different in...

I got them from Amazon. I thought it was a done deal after the return period. But either way, I already disposed of the boxes they came in (yes, I know, stupid of me). Last time I trust a manufacturer to say “yes it’s compatible and we will stand behind our products.”

Good idea! I’ll set that and see how it goes. I have hardware acceleration disabled already. Will report back.

@wittaj - thanks for the reply. Yep, the iframe rate is my sole problem, I believe. Sometimes I get less than 0.25. Unfortunately I doubt I can return them unless Reolink decides to do what's right, but I have asked them for a refund if they can't provide a firmware that allows iframe rate to...

Like many others on here, I made the mistake of purchasing a full set of Reolink cameras (mixture of RLC-820a and RLC-520a) to use with Blue Iris. I chose the Reolink cameras based on recommendations from 2 popular YouTubers, and while the quality of the cameras out of the box are acceptable to...