Question: How can I reduce frequent "Error streaming from camera..." errors? about neolink HOT 5 CLOSED

from neolink.

I don't see a way of updating the firmware of my E1 using the Android app or a web browser (that's not your problem - I'm contacting Reolink), but here's some info. When I view the live feed via my Android app, the timestamp watermark updates smoothly second by second, 1, 2, 3...etc. When I run neolink and then view the stream using VLC, the timestamp stops, then skips 1, 2.......5, 6.

That makes me think that the network is okay.

I thought, maybe my computer is too slow? (Slower than my phone???) but system monitor shows CPU usage is under 10%.

from neolink.

So, a few things here.

I can assure you that your computer is not too slow for Neolink. It's a glorified translator and doesn't really do anything other than copying video data around. It could run on a potato.

It's possible (although very unlikely) that your computer is too slow for rendering the video in VLC. Since it's an E1, that's a 1080p stream I think, and if you don't have trouble watching YouTube in 1080p then playing this video should work fine.

Let me ask you this - are you connecting Neolink and the phone simultaneously? I'd say the most likely scenario is that the simultaneous stream to your phone and to your laptop overwhelms your Wi-Fi bandwidth. If you kill the stream to the phone, does the stream in VLC stabilize?

Another possibility is that VLC doesn't like the stream because it has extra garbage in it (see #50).

from neolink.

I still have the problem even when my phone is not connected. But.... I have other cameras on the network (that I'm not connecting to). I will try unplugging them to see if that makes a difference, and/or maybe I'll educate myself on how to look at overall network load.
I don't have trouble watching Youtube/Netflix/whatever on my laptop.
I was just using VLC for testing but my main goal is to use python and opencv to analyze the stream. I'm doing that just fine with an Amcrest camera and its RTSP stream. But I read some articles about smoother performance by using multiple threads, one to just read the stream itself and another to do whatever analysis, so I'm going to try that.

But... I am

from neolink.

I updated my firmware and performance seems a lot better, so thanks.

from neolink.