Newbie exploring Asecam

[chrisq]

Dear members hello. I am quite new in the camera world and recently I started playing around so as to learn more.

So, I recently purchased an ASECAM 4K camera (yes a typical aliexpress Xiongmai one, called Vatilon H43), urged from very low price and cloudless setup.

My experience so far is awful,
I cannot retrieve any usable RTSP stream and advertised motion/human detection does not work.
I only managed to see the stream in VLC and ODM, but not in other NVR apps such as VMS or QVR (QNAP client) - although camera seems connected.
I also tried both H.264 and H.265 encoding. Nothing changed.
Motion detection randomly worked a couple of times, setting on the light, but then the camera is stuck. One time it was really hot too!

Please note that I set it via the web interface, with absolutely no cloud connection at any point (blocked any WAN access in the firewall from very beginning).
I also tried the app XMeye via LAN/Wifi, but it gives me error 11307.

I found another thread here : Camera newbie - Want's a cloudless setup from the member Bingo600.

Is there any other member with good or bad experience around this camera?

My regards!

 

[Bingo600]

My Asecam Cams are behaving quite well.
I skipped the useless China NVR, and installed BI (see other thread).

Wo. the China NVR & cloud support, the cam is dumb ... AKA. no human detection, and motion detection is triggering often - Cloud/Sun change etc ...
But as a basic streaming cam i have no issues.

 

[chrisq]

Thanks Bingo600.

In the absense of any usable manual from Asecam, I wondered if human detection worked. Seems I got my answer

 

[Bingo600]

I had a few "headscratchers"

1:
Using linux mint i could not get VLC to show the streams.
Turned out to be a possible "Copyright/Licensing issue in the RTSP soucecode".
Debian is allergic to "Non Opensource", so they & Ubuntu simply disabled RTSP in their packages.
Solution : Use the FlatPack VLC , that's build by the VLC team not Debian.
Windows VLC doesn't have this issue.

2:
If the cam was set to H.265, it was running excellent until it switched to "night mode IR"
Then in VLC at least, the stream "stopped" , and became "a frame once in a while".
I contacted the VLC team, they said that code were from ffmpeg ... So i gave up.
I switched the Cam to H.264 (actually recommended as a general usage from several members here), and i haven't had any issues since then.

3:
My Cam OSD time sometimes seemed to "jump" 1 hour.
Turned out that the Cam was getting time via SNTP from my firewall, but BI was also somehow pushing the time to the Cam.
Solution - Make sure that Cam TZ and BI TZ were the same, and make sure both had the same NTP time(server)