As a homeowner wanting to acquire and operate a non-subscription security camera system, I discovered The Hookup channel on YouTube, where author Rob extols a subjectively evaluated, relatively high value-to-cost ratio of Reolink cameras. Not aware of the history of Reolink cameras not being able to work well with BI, and on Amazon Prime Day (July 12/13), I bought 10 Reolink RLC-811A cameras. A week or so later, I came across Rob's video on using Deepstack with Blue Iris. Unfortunately, it turns out, at least last year when Rob made that video, that Reolink cameras didn't allow sufficient flexibility to set the sub-stream (low res) iframe interval so that Deepstack could be leveraged to offload the CPU from needing to do heavy analysis on every higher res frame. Then, I discovered Rob’s May 2022 update video in which he says Reolink released new firmware which now enables both the high res and low res streams to have concurrent iframes. However, Rob doesn’t mention Deepstack in this update video, so it’s not clear to me that the update enables the BI/DS combo to do a much less cpu intensive heavy analysis because it is only invoking Deepstack to crunch frames after a triggering event is detected in a low res frame. So I’m confused and my return window for the 10 Reolink cameras is running out. Even if Reolink’s April 2022 firmware update has corrected that problem, I’ve come across other and very recent (since Reolink firmware update) disdainful sentiment from BI users towards Reolink cameras which identifies many other difficulties persisting when attempting to use BI with Reolink cameras.
Curiously, however, I didn’t spot, at least in that ipcamtalk thread, any mention of the April 2022 Reolink firmware update. So, before returning the cameras, I wanted to check, since I will probably have to pay return shipping (even though it was Shipped by Amazon, the order is Sold by Reolink) if the strong and adverse sentiment expressed in the ipcamtalk thread still exists.
Bottom Line Question: when using Reolink’s updated firmware April 2022 (version 3.10.596_22041503) or later, do substantial aggravations and difficulties, particularly associated with cpu-efficient Blue Iris/Deepstack use, still exist?
Thanks for any help. I am excited to finally, after ~ 5 years of dreaming, start deploying a non-subscription and highly customizable surveillance system.
Curiously, however, I didn’t spot, at least in that ipcamtalk thread, any mention of the April 2022 Reolink firmware update. So, before returning the cameras, I wanted to check, since I will probably have to pay return shipping (even though it was Shipped by Amazon, the order is Sold by Reolink) if the strong and adverse sentiment expressed in the ipcamtalk thread still exists.
Bottom Line Question: when using Reolink’s updated firmware April 2022 (version 3.10.596_22041503) or later, do substantial aggravations and difficulties, particularly associated with cpu-efficient Blue Iris/Deepstack use, still exist?
Thanks for any help. I am excited to finally, after ~ 5 years of dreaming, start deploying a non-subscription and highly customizable surveillance system.
