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Scrypted is a high performance video integration and automation platform
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Using special characters in passwords on Reolink devices breaks the connection #990

Closed MrHollowPS closed 11 months ago

MrHollowPS commented 11 months ago

I have a reolink doorbell poe camera with a passwords that has special characters like (eg. ! # $ % ^). When using this user/password combination scrypted with display a black screen when trying to stream. Looking at the logs i can see that the password is changed in the URL to escape the special characters which breaks the login with Reolink so it doesn't work anymore.

The fix for this is to use a separate user with alphanumerical characters.

koush commented 11 months ago

Correct. This is documented in the camera setup docs. Many cameras do not handle properly escaped urls.