Stream not ready - Reolink Lumus

[gogreenpower]

Describe the bug Load stream into VLC and I get static and error message "Stream not Ready"

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior. Example:

1. Create this configuration file: Docker Compose:

version: "3.4" services: neolink: image: quantumentangledandy/neolink:latest container_name: neolink environment:

• PUID=1000
• PGID=100
• TZ=TZ=Australia/Perth volumes:
• /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4a3f08d5-22b1-41f3-81da-f78d77b40830/config/neolink/neolink.toml:/etc/neolink.toml ports:
• 8554:8554 restart: unless-stopped

neolink.toml:

bind = "0.0.0.0"

[[cameras]] name = "patio" username = "" password = "" address = "192.168.1.35:9000" stream = "both"

2. Launch Neolink:

Docker log:

[2023-05-21T09:18:18Z INFO neolink] Neolink 384a0271bdbcf3227d4160859c052e8c1cb9d1f8 release [2023-05-21T09:18:18Z INFO neolink::rtsp] Starting RTSP Server at 0.0.0.0:8554 [2023-05-21T09:18:18Z INFO neolink_core::bc_protocol] patio: Trying TCP discovery [2023-05-21T09:18:18Z INFO neolink_core::bc_protocol] patio: TCP Discovery success at 192.168.1.35:9000

3. open network stream in VLC - "rtsp://192.168.1.4:8554/patio"

Expected behavior A view of the camera stream

Versions NVR software: Blue Iris 5.7.6.8 x64, VLC 3.0.18 Neolink software: quantumentangledandy/neolink:latest Reolink camera model and firmware: Reolink Lumus running v2.0.0.687_20102800

Other:

It works when running 3340's docker image but my log is full of Deserialization errors

edit: code tag drama

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

Not an error. This screen is shown before the buffer is ready. We need to collect some frames from the camera to determine what the format is and also to buffer the usual network issues.

Wait until the log reports buffer ready

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

Can you try with the config

stream = "subStream"

That will make it pull only the low res stream which should prepare the buffers faster.

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

If that works try with stream = "mainStream"

If that fails then I recommend you reduce the max bitrare first using the official app.

The official app dynamically adjust the bitrate to match the network load and keep the fps up but I havent REd how they do that yet.

[gogreenpower]

Ok, with mainStream and bitrate set to 1024 I get the image.

New issue, if you imagine the screen split into 4 sections, I only get the top left quadrant?

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

No idea about the quadrant thing. Never had that before. Is it client dependant? Can you try with vlc, ffplay etc?

[gogreenpower]

I just deleted the camera, rebooted both systems and added camera again. And all is well. Thanks for the help, I'll close this now.