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From: Barry M. <bar...@gm...> - 2025-09-18 13:04:21
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Hi Folks! Recently installed two Reolink RLC-510WA wireless cameras and having a problem with the stream hanging/freezing randomly – usually around 30 seconds but sometimes as little as 5 seconds. The clock on the camera stream stops; that of Motion continues. (In case that’s confusing both streams have clocks displayed – for now anyway. I’m looking at the Motion stream, Motion is looking and displaying the Reolink stream.) I’m not sure where to begin troubleshoot – well, some shotgun guesses which seem to eliminate some problem sources. This is my first wireless camera. Start with the Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4B version 1.2 Not Throttled Not using any Swap Cameras (two) Reolink RLC-510WA; https and RTSP enabled. Running Motion Version 4.7.0 The Reolink configuration is indicating it’s WiFi connection is 4 out of 4 bars and I think is a 5G connection (dual-band device provided by the ISP). Know could check by channel being used but I didn’t find that information. Raspberry Pi measurements: Every 1.0s: cat /proc/net/wireless Motion204: Tue Sep 16 18:41:25 2025 (same results @ 18:53) Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22 wlan0: 0000 40. 40. 0. 0 0 0 0 0 0 barry@Motion204:~ $ iwconfig wlan0 | grep -i --color quality Link Quality=40/100 Signal level=40/100 Noise level=0/100 barry@Motion204:~ $ cat /etc/motion/camera2.conf # /usr/etc/motion/camera2.conf # # This config file was generated by motion 4.5.1 ########################################################### # Configuration options specific to camera 2 ############################################################ # User defined name for the camera. camera_name Reolink - Porch # Numeric identifier for the camera. camera_id 102 # The full URL of the network camera stream. netcam_url rtsp://*****:**********@192.168.*.***:554 # v4l2_palette 8 # 8 = MPJG palette 21 = H.264 but not work # Replaced by video_parms -- see https://motion-project.github.io/4.6.0/motion_config.html#video_params # video_params palette=8 # Image width in pixels. width 1280 # Image height in pixels. height 720 # Text size text_scale 4 # Text to be overlayed in the lower left corner of images # text_left CAMERA 1 text_left Reolink Porch Camera (204) # Storage location target_dir /mnt/Motion_NAS/Porch # File name(without extension) for movies relative to target directory movie_filename %m-%d/%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S The other Reolink camera uses camera3.conf, camera_id = 103; IP changed as needed. (camera1 is a USB camera and AFAICT no hesitation/pausing.) Using my browser (Firefox), so a https connection, I do not get the hesitations/pauses. Thanks for helping me figure this out! Barry |