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mfg9211

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Hello, I am new to OBS and to cameras in general. I am an amateur meteorologist, and we have a Davis Instruments weather station to which we have installed a Reolink Duo 2 POE camera. Unfortunately, we were wrongly advice to purchase this camera because we cannot view a stream from this camera directly from a webpage without entering a username and password. We do like the quality and the wide-angle view of the camera. Our intension was to stream the view from the camera along with the current weather parameters to our amateur meteorology website. After contacting the Reolink customer support they referred us to https://reolink.com/blog/stream-ip-camera-to-youtube/ video. I followed all the instructions as closely as possible because the version of the application has changed since the YouTube video was created. The problem I am having is that I cannot see the camera on the OBS Studio after creating a media source and entering the RTSP URL. I don’t get any error messages that I am aware of. I have run the Auto-Configuration Wizard various times without success. I am successfully streaming to YouTube but in my case a blank stream.

I am embarrassed to say I have spent days trying to figure out what I am doing wrong without success. I would very much appreciate any help from this forum.

My RTSP URL: rtsp://admin:XXXXXXXXXXX@192.168.1.77:554/H265Preview_01_main

The password on the rtsp url has been replaced with X’s.

Thank you in advance.
 
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mfg9211

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I have attached the current log file. I have masked the password with x's.
 

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Joseph Johnston

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mfg9211 said:
Hello, I am new to OBS and to cameras in general. I am an amateur meteorologist, and we have a Davis Instruments weather station to which we have installed a Reolink Duo 2 POE camera. Unfortunately, we were wrongly advice to purchase this camera because we cannot view a stream from this camera directly from a webpage without entering a username and password. We do like the quality and the wide-angle view of the camera. Our intension was to stream the view from the camera along with the current weather parameters to our amateur meteorology website. After contacting the Reolink customer support they referred us to https://reolink.com/blog/stream-ip-camera-to-youtube/ video. I followed all the instructions as closely as possible because the version of the application has changed since the YouTube video was created. The problem I am having is that I cannot see the camera on the OBS Studio after creating a media source and entering the RTSP URL. I don’t get any error messages that I am aware of. I have run the Auto-Configuration Wizard various times without success. I am successfully streaming to YouTube but in my case a blank stream.

I am embarrassed to say I have spent days trying to figure out what I am doing wrong without success. I would very much appreciate any help from this forum.

My RTSP URL: rtsp://admin:XXXXXXXXXXX@192.168.1.77:554/H265Preview_01_main

The password on the rtsp url has been replaced with X’s.

Thank you in advance.
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MFG9211,

I have had a slow start just getting registered and signed in so I can appreciate your call for help. I am looking for the starting place for new members. I hope they aren't on the internet. I love learning by discovery but I'd like to get along a little bit faster. Any ideas where I should be, or maybe do you know where you are at?

JJ
 
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Joseph Johnston

New Member
MFG9211,
I have had a slow start just getting registered and signed in so I can appreciate your call for help. I am looking for the starting place for new members. I hope they aren't on the internet. I love learning by discovery but I'd like to get along a little bit faster. Any ideas where I should be, or maybe do you know where you are at?
JJ
 
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mfg9211

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Hello Joseph, I am just as lost as you. I am hoping someone knowledgeable might point me in the right direction.
 
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Joseph Johnston

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mfg9211,
In my search for a starting point, I found that indeed they did place examples on the internet. Matter of fact, it seems that we will be required to post our own example there as part of our assignment for this study. I found a couple of starting point at https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...i=UTF-8&fr2=p:s,v:v,m:sb,rgn:top#action=close. I'm sure you will find a starting point there.
Also, I found that there is something on OBS that may point you in a similar direction in something like Getting Started , I think. I'll go back to verify that area on the OBS site for you. Dig and you will find.
JJ
 
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Joseph Johnston

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mfg9211,
In my search for a starting point, I found that indeed they did place examples on the internet. Matter of fact, it seems that we will be required to post our own example there as part of our assignment for this study. I found a couple of starting point at

obs as a video switcher for Zoom - Yahoo Video Search Results

The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.
video.search.yahoo.com video.search.yahoo.com
. I'm sure you will find a starting point there.
Also, I found that there is something on OBS that may point you in a similar direction in something like Getting Started , I think. I'll go back to verify that area on the OBS site for you. Dig and you will find.
JJ
PS. We have internal surveillance here so the entire address where I was pointing you is posted here, or it was just too long for posting. Still what has been replaced if the same information.
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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mfg9211 said:
My RTSP URL: rtsp://admin:XXXXXXXXXXX@192.168.1.77:554/H265Preview_01_main
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My general advice, when using OBS Studio or similar real-time compositing software, is to get your audio and video sources working outside of OBS first.
In your description, you have not indicated whether from your computer, you can view the cameras video output ?
I say this as it is possible to connect to browser in camera and view that, so when you said you'd like the image, I'm not sure which image source you are referring to.

Then, as for streaming the camera. First thing to do is decide whether to stream camera direct, to YouTube, for example. Your PC/OBS not involved. Or, do you want to composite the video (ie add overlays, etc that can't be done in-camera). There is complexity is sending video stream from camera to a PC to YouTube. There is also a security benefit to this approach.. so it depends. There are pay restreaming cloud services that you could send the video stream to that could forward that stream to YouTube (and others simultaneously, if so chosen). Some of those re-streaming options I believe could add a simple watermark/logo? possibly negating need to use OBS. Your OBS PC will need rebooting on occasion (monthly post patches at least, and that is only if PC is super well-configured with only the most well-behaved apps running)

I'm not sure about RTSP (as I use a PoE NDI PTZ camera), but I suspect you need to check the settings on the camera in terms of your video output (frame rate, resolution, etc) and then configure the video receiver (OBS VLC? or ?) to use the same
 
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SuperiorBuds

SuperiorBuds

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Install VLC on your OBS system and test the video in there first. (Open a Network URL in VLC.) Once you can get the cam viewable in VLC then return to OBS and reuse the URL in your Media Source and it should be good to go.

Your URL should look like this for Reolink cams:

rtsp://admin:XXXXX@192.168.10.11

I'm currently using 12 Reolink cameras for my stream and they've been great, so I think we should be able to get yours working.
 
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mvl

New Member
SuperiorBuds said:
Install VLC on your OBS system and test the video in there first. (Open a Network URL in VLC.) Once you can get the cam viewable in VLC then return to OBS and reuse the URL in your Media Source and it should be good to go.

Your URL should look like this for Reolink cams:

rtsp://admin:XXXXX@192.168.10.11

I'm currently using 12 Reolink cameras for my stream and they've been great, so I think we should be able to get yours working.
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I am having the same issue as the original poster of this inquiry. Would you be able to assist in connecting my Reolink camera to OBS? The URL I configured following the Reolink website connects fine on VLC & I can see live feed in real time. & I can also see it fine on Reolink client app. But when using the same URL to add as a media source into OBS, it just comes up with a black screen (also in the properties window - just a black screen). Is there anything you would suggest that could be causing that to happen? I have enabled RTSP in Reolink settings & followed all of the instructions in their YouTube video of how to connect IP camera for live streaming to YouTube but this seemingly simple step of adding the camera to OBS has turned out to be an impossible nightmare. I can screen capture it but would prefer to connect it as desired as a source of it's own. TIA for any help you may be able to offer.
 
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JohnPee

Member
mvl said:
I am having the same issue as the original poster of this inquiry. Would you be able to assist in connecting my Reolink camera to OBS? The URL I configured following the Reolink website connects fine on VLC & I can see live feed in real time. & I can also see it fine on Reolink client app. But when using the same URL to add as a media source into OBS, it just comes up with a black screen (also in the properties window - just a black screen). Is there anything you would suggest that could be causing that to happen? I have enabled RTSP in Reolink settings & followed all of the instructions in their YouTube video of how to connect IP camera for live streaming to YouTube but this seemingly simple step of adding the camera to OBS has turned out to be an impossible nightmare. I can screen capture it but would prefer to connect it as desired as a source of it's own. TIA for any help you may be able to offer.
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You should be able to connect to the camera from a standard web browser using only the IP number 192.168.x.x or whatever your camera IP number is. To connect to OBS as many people have said you need to create a Media Source in OBS and put in the correct URL which will look like this
RTSP URL: rtsp://admin:Camera Password@192.168.1.77:554/H265Preview_01_sub
I used H264 it worked but you can use H265, I also used "sub" rather than "main" because my network is bandwidth limited.
 
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Norfolk

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mvl said:
I am having the same issue as the original poster of this inquiry. Would you be able to assist in connecting my Reolink camera to OBS? The URL I configured following the Reolink website connects fine on VLC & I can see live feed in real time. & I can also see it fine on Reolink client app. But when using the same URL to add as a media source into OBS, it just comes up with a black screen (also in the properties window - just a black screen). Is there anything you would suggest that could be causing that to happen? I have enabled RTSP in Reolink settings & followed all of the instructions in their YouTube video of how to connect IP camera for live streaming to YouTube but this seemingly simple step of adding the camera to OBS has turned out to be an impossible nightmare. I can screen capture it but would prefer to connect it as desired as a source of it's own. TIA for any help you may be able to offer.
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You also need to enable HTTPS as well as RTSP in Server Settings.
 
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aldridgepk

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I have been using Reolink cameras for months with no problems. After the upgrade to 30.1 the stream no longer work.

Any suggestions?
 
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