Sometimes the camera stream rez and quality settings get changed.

[tfabris]

Sometimes the resolution of the camera stream, and its bandwidth (bits-per-second) of the stream, reset themselves to 1080p/5mbps. I want them at 1296p/3mbps at all times.

What is causing it to change?

Can I configure CrowCam to reset that?

[tfabris]

Note: This coincided with a recurrence of issue #24 and may be related.

[tfabris]

I looked at the camera settings after the recurrence of issue #23 and found out:

• My local Reolink "App" on my iPhone had forgotten its login password and I had to re-enter it. The password had not changed on the camera itself, it's just that the Reolink App did not have it built in any more and it was saying the password was wrong. When I typed in the right password, the app connected fine to the existing camera.
• The camera had been reset to 1080p but the stream bandwith was still 3mbps as it should have been.

[tfabris]

I haven't had this recur since issues #23 and #24, so I'm going to close this as "fixed" - it seems that if I bounce the stream soon enough once it starts having The Troubles, then this issue doesn't happen. At least I hope that's what's going on.

[tfabris]

In an attempt to fix issue #25 (camera rez changes from 1296p to 1080p sometimes) I tried setting things to the following:

• 1296p/25fps/3gbps Reolink Camera settings.
• 1296p/30fps/3gbps Synology IP Camera settings. My idea was that perhaps the Synology IP camera settings were occasionally overriding the Reolink camera settings, and putting them both to 1296p would stop the settings from changing out from under me.

Not sure if that worked in the long term yet. But I believe that this may have caused audio to be more frequently out of sync (issue #14 recurs).

To do: Experiment with setting it to:

• 1080p/25fps/3gbps Reolink Camera settings.
• 1080p/30fps/3gbps Synology IP Camera settings.
• Do a comparison of the actual observed video resolution on the YouTube video stream and see if going down to 1080p from 1296p actually decreases sharpness or not.

[tfabris]

I tried setting everything to 1080p and I have the following conclusions:

• The video sharpness and framing of the final YouTube stream (either live video or archives) is not discernibly different, regardless of whether it is set to 1296p or 1080p at either the Reolink camera settings or the Synology IP Camera settings. YouTube dumbs it down to 1080p in all cases, and it looks the same either way.
• Once upon a time, I seem to recall there was a way for YouTube to at least have the video archive be saved at 1296p, but now that's not happening any more, so YouTube is now 1080p, period. Not sure if that's because YouTube changed or if I'm missing a trick somewhere.
• Reolink camera has a bug where, if you set the camera's settings to 1080p, you get slightly fewer scan lines from the video stream. There is a tiny black strip of a couple of black pixels, at the top and bottom of the screen. Not enough to bother the eye, but enough to trigger the "Check Resolution" error in the YouTube Stream Health. Setting the camera to 1296 takes care of this, but since the camera seems to get itself reset to 1080p so often anyway, perhaps it's not worth my time to try to fix this.
• I am not yet certain if setting everything to 1080p will fix the audio desynchronization issues, but, I am sure that I had more audio desynchronization issues the last couple of days while I had the Synology IP Camera settings at 1296 than I recall having in quite some time prior to that. So I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that setting it to 1080 all around fixes the audio issues.
• My suspicion is that the camera kept getting set back to 1080p because of the Synology IP Camera settings forcing it back to 1080p occasionally. So I hope that if I just give in and leave it always at 1080p, this will fix the issue.

I'm going to close bugs #25 and #14 now, leave everything at 1080p, and we'll reopen these bugs if needed later.