Reolink Camera Find/Inspect no longer working for one camera.

ipcamwalt

Young grasshopper
Jan 9, 2025
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So I thought I would try camera AI again to reduce my BI CPU load. One of my Reolink cameras now throws Error for ONVIF events. The Find/Inspect comes back with this:1762470461634.png
It no longer pulls the proper streams to populate the main/sub streams. The camera itself still does all it's things, if I leave the original main/sub streams everything works fine, it pans through it's three set view locations as it always did, but ONVIF is throwing error.
This is an identical model camera on the same system with Find/Inspect working properly:
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There is a lot more if I scroll up, but the basic idea is that one camera is properly reporting ONVIF and the other isn't.

These are Reolink TrackMix POE cameras.

Am I missing something? ONVIF is still enabled, I haven't changed anything on the camera (that I remember):
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This is my second Reolink that is acting abnormally, I had another lower-end 5mp model that just stopped transmitting video, the interface still works but the video just doesn't come through.

Is this the general rule of thumb "you get what you pay for" ?

I bought these with the idea that if they crapped out I could replace them cheaply, but these are malfunctioning at a rate of 1 or 2 per year out of 6 so far. Is this an expected failure rate? Should I not be buying Reolink? Or buying Reolink is fine as long as I have a couple spares of each model on hand?
 
Reolinks do crazy things.

BI developer has mentioned that Reolinks can be problematic with BI

Reolinks are known for poor night performance.

Buy once, cry once.
 
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I was enticed by being able to buy all nine of my 4k PTZ cameras for the price of one Ubiquiti 4k PTZ.

Is there a good cheap brand? I realize that's an oxymoron, but is Dahua a better choice or something similar?
 
Yes, many here feel Dahua (well Dahua OEM sold by a vendor here for way less) is the best bang for the buck.

Best to chance sensor size, not MP. Only get cameras on the ideal MP/sensor ratio in green below:

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Without knowing what your goals of the camera is, this thread is used as the go to for the new person here outlining the commonly recommended cameras (along with Amazon links) based on distance to IDENTIFY that represent the overall best value/best bang for the buck in terms of price and performance day and night. It might be a 2MP camera in some instances. Many here feel 4MP is the current sweet spot for these cameras.

The Importance of Focal Length over MP in camera selection

And coupled with that thread is this great thread which will show why all of the same 2.8 or 3.6mm cameras is the wrong choice (these are the common focal lengths consumer brands sell):

i-want-2-8mm-cameras-everywhere-to-see-everything-this-is-why-you-need-specific-fovs-with-purposeful-focal-lengths.70053/

We would encourage you to look at those threads in detail.

It will probably raise more questions than answers LOL.