TheWaterbug
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^^ ah, only for much newer cameras than mine. These are not the droids I'm looking for.
New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?
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Sorry for late reply, I had one of those I know I had something to do moments and it was to test your questions...got busy...anyway...
The first picture is 20FPS and MAX 6144 bitrate...
For the TEST I lowered the FPS in half to 10 and restarted the DB in BI...NO CHANGE in bitrate,
then I dropped the bitrate in half 3072 and restarted the DB...last I set the MAX bitrate at 1024
TEST:
So changing the MAX bitrate does work in setting (MAX) thresholds in the bitrates, changing the FPS did not change the bitrate...
HTH
fenderman
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This makes sense and it is how it should work. The frame rate should not affect the bitrate.
Since I have a working Smart DB, I have not been in a rush to run the cable needed for this and permanently install it. I can say my bench testing so far has brought very promising results. If I were in the market for my first Smart DB I would definitely chose this one. I probably should of bought the WiFi version too and just did my bench testing by replacing my existing LaView (EZVIZ DB1 variant) I would assume many people are like me and do not have a cable ran.
Since I have two other DBs I bought while they were on sale (EZVIZ DB1 and EZVIZ DB1C) for possible replacements/spares, not sure if the wife would approve of me buying two more, haha When I bought this POE version I got questioned why I have so DBs
I have not mess with the DB for several days. I noticed some dropped signals so I checked the logs. I imported the data into Excel and sorted it by Camera (object) then by Event/Date (message/time). Sorry did not know how to include seconds in Excel import...
Anyway I am alarmed by all the Signal: network retry / Signal Failed to connect messages I found. I know some of these are me rebooting/changing settings but I have not touch the DB in several days...
I attached the Excel spreadsheet in case anyone wants to see my log. I have not noticed this on any of my other CAMs...
Here is an ex. from the Excel spreadsheet:
Ex. from BI log:
NOTE: DoorbellCAM is my LaView (DB1 variant) existing Doorbell. The highlighted Doorbell is the Reolink POE.
Anyway I am alarmed by all the Signal: network retry / Signal Failed to connect messages I found. I know some of these are me rebooting/changing settings but I have not touch the DB in several days...
I attached the Excel spreadsheet in case anyone wants to see my log. I have not noticed this on any of my other CAMs...
Here is an ex. from the Excel spreadsheet:
Ex. from BI log:
NOTE: DoorbellCAM is my LaView (DB1 variant) existing Doorbell. The highlighted Doorbell is the Reolink POE.
flynreelow
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well thats no good wonder what is causing that.
it does restore in 3-4 seconds which i guess is a good thing
edit... its doing this every minute?
you think you would be able to see this watching the live view or pre recorded footage
Yeah, was a shock when I looked deeper into the logs. I usually just look at the Status. The 3 NoSignal just popped up over the last few days. Well 2 more added to 1 signal loss I saw. I don't have a lot of knowledge with BI.
I do have
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flynreelow
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can u go back and watch the recorded video at those times it says no signal. do you see a glitch in the video and do you see the time stamp jump.
I have watched live and checked recordings, I have not noticed anything, but I only have it benched so no movement unless I create movement. I did have it pointing to a fan.
So I just went back and watched about 3 minutes of today's recording, No Glitch, the video recording looked good.
So I looked at the log up till 9pm for today and I did not see anymore Signal: Failed to connect or Signal: network retry after the above Noon events. Looking through the log it seems sporadic. I will have to look for any patterns.
So I looked at the log up till 9pm for today and I did not see anymore Signal: Failed to connect or Signal: network retry after the above Noon events. Looking through the log it seems sporadic. I will have to look for any patterns.
flynreelow
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you happy with this new doorbell? any issues u have found?
I think you said you are running POE correct?
just waiting for the re-stock, and will be a nice late Xmas present for myself. Even though my DB1C is working fine, this will be nice since i already have cat6 POE to the doorbell location.
I see you have 3...
Notice your DB has a lot of Dog captures
I will be looking into why I have had so many on the DB and None on my other CAMs.
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I updated my code a bit and can now talk to the doorbell (send audio to the doorbell). However, my code is quite messy and needs some restructuring Next step will be to see if I can send data / video / audio to a messenger app on the phone and make phone calls. Anybody any experience with Wire?
Next step will be to see if I can send data / video / audio to a messenger app on the phone and make phone calls. Anybody any experience with Wire?Yes I am happy and yes I am running POE. If you can run an ethernet cable for POE, I can't understand why anyone would go with WiFi. I had many more disconnects on my WiFi Lorex and that is all gone.
I am still holding out hope that Reolink will release a constant frame rate firmware like they did for their other cameras. We need some influencers to bad mouth them to convince them to act!
For the price, I can't think of a better alternative besides just installing a regular camera at your door and using a normal doorbell.
I had major disconnect issues in my log with keep alives set to on. Curious to see if that impacts you as well.