First look of Reolink 511WA WiFi security camera-Settings and Frigate compatibility.

today we're going to talk about the rio link rlc 511 wa camera here real link sent me this camera asking if i would take a quick look at it and talk about it on one of my videos which is what i will do today they had no uh input into the video and they have no knowledge of what i'm about to say before i release the video so it's my opinion on the camera spoiler alert it's a good camera so i really enjoy the camera and i will take you through the settings i will take you through some video that i shot with the camera both day and night time and then we'll talk about briefly about frigate and how i've got that installed in frigate and uh answer any questions you have in my comments so um let's get started by the way if you want to purchase this camera there will be a link down below that will give you a little bit of a discount for black friday as of the recording of this video if it's uh this is 2021 so it's black black friday 2021 of the week of black friday if you want to buy the camera at a discount uh there's a link down below for that as well let's get started jump into the camera and the options and see what we can do with it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] before i show you the actual camera i want to talk about some specs first so let's go into uh their website the real link website we'll talk about this camera specifically uh this camera here has a spotlight and a siren that you can enable if somebody walks up in motion is detected you can either do it manually or trigger off of the motion detection uh it has two-way audio so you can listen and talk back to whoever's out there it has a 5 megapixel super hd so it uh this is a random picture that someone had sent in to real link it has dark black and white so it will do spotlighting when it's dark outside and record in full color and i'll show you a little bit about what that looks like here in a minute it has five little spotlights on it up to 100 feet away it'll do dark and black or it'll do dark and black and white so it has a spotlight uh five little spotlights built into it that'll give you up to 100 feet of illumination to help give you nighttime pictures in full color uh five times optical zoom has a motorized lens that has a viewing angle of 27 to 96 degrees with a five times optical zoom it allows you to zoom in and see a little more detail and then the motorized line is 2.7 to 13.5 millimeters you can do time lapses on it i haven't done a time lapse yet but um you know we've all seen time lapses it'll take a long term time lapse video for you to play back later do something with uh it has dual band wi-fi 2.4 gigahertz five gigahertz it has uh two t two r two transmit to receive mimo antennas um it switches between two point four and five gig as necessary uh a lot more stuff here it's wireless uh it can be wired as well i it has an ethernet port and that's how i initially set it up again two point four and five gig it has the two t uh two t2r uh mimo antennas and then it says it'll it'll reach up to 164 feet away from the ap and open areas you can do remote control you can view real-time alerts live view from anywhere including windows easy and smart playback and you can set up motion zones and all kinds of privacy zones and everything else you have multiple recording options it supports 24 7 continuous movement triggered and scheduled recordings all three types can be saved on the sd card the real link nvr or an ftp server and you can choose the way you set that up but you can get up to 145 hours on a 256 gig sd card and of course the figure is based on the default bit rate of 4096 kbps it's say ip66 certified waterproof it's designed to be outdoors that's what it's made for and then if you have some of these assistants you can use those as well so those are the specs on the camera so now we're going to do is we're going to get into the app and i'll show you how that works now the app actually they have a windows app and they have the obviously the tablet or phone apps i'm going to use the windows app to show you this because it's a lot easier to demonstrate it this way the settings uh configurations on the app are about the same they're just in different places so this is the windows app and the first thing we do is we want to connect to the camera and if you by default when you set this up that if it sees a camera on the network it's going to set it it's going to find it automatically and the way i did this was i set up the camera with an ethernet connection first it got an address from my dhcp server on my network and then it showed up here i didn't have to do anything crazy like log into a web browser on the camera and do anything with that automatically showed up and then i went through and i configured it and the configuration settings are pretty simple or i'll actually take that back configuring settings are as detailed as you want to make them you can flip the camera display you can mirror the display so if your camera is upside down uh you can flip it and it will actually flip the camera display over uh if it's if you want to mirror it flip it the other way horizontally you can do it as well you can show the camera name or hide it you can select the different areas where the camera goes you can put the date time in different areas on the camera or hide it all together you can add a watermark if you want to do anti-flicker you can do that if your power is if you're seeing flicker on the camera you can set it to either 60hz or 50hz or other which i don't know what other does and then just turn it off entirely day night gives you the option for auto color or black and white i'm going to leave it at color and i'll show you why here in a little bit and then you can set up privacy masks so let's say i don't want to see this house right here i can set a privacy mask right here save it and now if i go look at the live view on the camera that area should be masked out and now i can't see anything that's going on right there at that house so you can set up up to four privacy masks on here so that's uh easy to do as well uh there's some advanced settings uh brightness contrast saturation sharpness i'm gonna leave all those as default now your stream you have a couple options this is what i call the mainstream they call it clear and the substring which they call fluent and so my fluid is 640 by 480 at 10 frames per second with a max bit rate of 256k and then my resolution here is uh is full 256 well you can go higher than this i i chose 2 25 60 by 1440 because it gives it kind of an hd uh wide angle or wide wide view for uh filming but you can go up to 2560 by 1920. that's kind of more of a square looking picture and then you can set up your frame rate up to 30 frames per second your max bit rate up to 51.20 i'll leave it at the default of 4096. your detection alarms you can set up detection zones so i can come over here and create no alarm zones to reduce false alarms so if i don't want to be alerted when this tree is moving for example i can create this zone here and i can go ahead and make that area a no detection zone it's kind of backwards to me but this is an area i'm masking out for for detecting motion i don't want alarms or motion or anything here anyway you can do that there and then save it you can create whatever areas you want for that uh and then you can set up motion detection sensitivity you can it's just a slider and it's interesting i like this because it tells you it shows you as you go here that it camera at medium sensitivity is moderately sensitive to changes such as pets and dubious people uh you can get down even farther and it kind of gives you an idea camera lower sense to be only detects motion of bigger objects such as running cars and people nearby so i can go to max here and higher sensitivity detects every small change in the field of view such as a sneaky person at a distance and you can change these based on the time period so i could add an additional time period and change my sensitivity during that time period and i'll tell you the reason why that's important is at night time you may have a different sensitivity requirement than during the day especially if you have a bunch of shadows and things going across you don't want to have false detection you can set a different type of sensitivity for the daytime versus the nighttime so there's that smart detection this is kind of neat too for cars and vehicles each one has its own setting and as you move the slider you can see what happens here in the picture the it gets a little more washed out or a little bit more pixelated so it's going to detect people with low similarity to persons versus going this direction which means it only detects people with high similarity appearance to a person and then you can go in between anywhere in there and so you can set this if you're not getting uh people detection you can set it a little more sensitive if you're getting too many objects that are thinking they're people uh actually that you go this way for that if you wanted to to only detect people and have fewer false positives you go this way and if you want to detect more stuff you go that way and the same thing with vehicles you can see that i want to detect everything that kind of looks like a vehicle or i definitely only want to detect vehicles and the picture gives you an indication what it's going to look like here finally you can also set up object size so you have object size here that allows you to set an object size that is smaller than the minimum object size or bigger than the maximum object size will not trigger the alarm so anything here that is smaller than this size will not trigger and anything bigger than this size will trigger or will not trigger so it has you can you can set something you can set it in a window uh of of size so it doesn't trigger when objects are too big or too small now again a lot of this i'm going to do with frigates so i'm not going to worry about these settings but if you're using the camera by itself for triggering then that you can set all of this up audio and light you can record audio or not uh you can adjust the alarm and speaker volume so when it's playing out to people or setting the alarm off you can set the volume there your infrared lights can either be off or on and it gives you kind of an idea here what that looks like when you have them on or off i turn them off because especially here at night time i don't want the bugs uh forming a a party around my camera so i leave the infrared lights off and i actually don't need them and i'll show you later on in some of the videos i took at night why i don't need the infrared lights same thing with a spotlight you can turn the spotlight on at night for higher quality color images but i found that to be washed out again it's probably because i didn't adjust the brightness properly when i was playing with it so i could turn it down because it's just too bright but when i the things i want to see out of the street maybe uh are too bright or not it doesn't really help this much at all so i just leave it off and again i'll show you a little bit later why i did that but you can set it to auto spotlight turns on when the alarm event is detected that means that if somebody walks by and you get a motion or vehicle it's going to turn the light on or you can turn it onto scheduled and you can set a a start and stop time again i just have it turned off completely for now of course you can get your camera information here now surveillance uh has a bunch of options you can record and if you overwrite if you run out of space you're gonna um you can hear the camera in the background by the way that's the audio coming from the camera you can overwrite the if you run out of space you just overwrite that you can have pre-motion record and i don't know how long this is but it seems like it's maybe five seconds uh anywhere from three to five seconds of free motion record and then post motion record is how long it records after the event so if it sees motion and it the motion goes away it'll continue to record for 15 seconds after that now there's two settings to get this camera to record you have to set up recording here in the camera itself and then over here there's some more settings that you have to set in order to have the the system do recording so we've got the camera set up to record you can either do it on a timer or you can do it on like and you just kind of go over this section here and enable it or you can go over it again and disable it you can clear all or enable all with those but under alarm that means if you have any motion a person motion or a vehicle motion you just come over here hover or you uh drag your mouse over this and then it turns it on let's say i don't want to record vehicle motion uh during the day because there's too much so i'll come in here and maybe take and just from six to six i'll just erase all of the vehicle motion recordings uh during the day and the thing about it is you can't you can't specify individual motion detection stuff here it's all or nothing so i can't say i only want to record persons during a certain time in vehicles during other times it's motion detection based on these three settings right here so actually nothing will get recorded right here during this time because it's disabled i'm just going to clear all of it or enable all and now it's just going to record all the time again i'll use frigate for most of my detection so this isn't a big issue for me under email settings here you can send email to multiple people people and you can send a text picture text text with video or just a picture and then you can do the interval on how often you want to send those when there's motion detected and you can also enable these alerts based on a specific time so you can turn it on or off based on the same window that you use for scheduling the other type of motion detection you can enable ftp and again send everything over to an ftp server so it's off site for example if you are doing some sort of backup of your recordings you can send it to an ftp server and what's nice about these kind of things is you don't necessarily need a cloud subscription to do this because you can do all of this directly from the camera to your own stuff siren you can set the siren when there's motion detection i don't want to do that because i don't want the siren going off all the time and then you can do push notifications to that i believe it's going to be to the app on the phone so anytime that there's motion you'll get a push notification and right now it's all disabled i'm going to enable it all for person and if there's a person there i'll get a notification on my phone most likely and then under network settings you can set your wi-fi network with all this information under advanced you can enable upnp enable uid and enable ddns and then you can do ntp setups for your time to synchronize your time on the on the camera and you can set up ports for different types of services so you've got onvi onvif on this camera rtsp uh rtmp and the media port so you have a lot of avail a lot of different options for viewing stuff on this camera and then storage uh gives you an overview of your sd card how its storage space is is shaping up here and then under system uh you can do user management date and time and then maintenance and those are the those are the things that you can do under here so auto focus configuration auto upgrade and then you can set auto reboot times if you want this to reboot every day or every week or something like that so those are the settings for the individual camera we can go over here now and we can look at the settings for the client now this that's this actual client that we're sending here you can set it to run at startup you can do automatic updates you can add camera devices automatically if you do stretch mode it makes the the picture stretch out on the screen i don't like the way that looks so i'm going to turn that off you can do an alarm beep a lock screen password set your language there's a number of languages available here and then your download path where it actually stores the videos and the pictures and then you can get a system status here that's all gibberish to me and then under record this is again this the second place you need to set this for the client itself to record you need to have the record settings now again i want to do the clear which is the the the highest resolution images i want to post record for 15 seconds the video file duration is five minutes if you're doing 24x7 recording it will take and make the video it'll chop them off every five minutes and create a new video file it's a free text so you don't it doesn't give you an option to drop down so you just kind of specify a time in there uh record videos going to this directory here and then the the max size for the video recording folder would be this size five gig and if it gets to that if it if it gets bigger than it'll start overriding files and you'll get a low disk space warning at one megabit and then all again the recording you can have this client record during whatever window you have set up here uh you can also set up this timer recording so right now if i enable this under timer it will actually record all the time so you have a choice of motion which is the blue and then if i specify this now it's going to record 24 7 here or record continuously and it will record in five minute video file duration or five minute video uh files and then the rest of the time will only record during motion events so i'll just put this back to motion so that's the whole client in a nutshell for setting up the camera now you have some options down here you have the ability to set an audio alarm which is a little siren you can turn on the spotlight manually you can do what's called a clip so i can take a picture of or take a clip of this area right here and it's going to zoom right into this little section right here or if i want to drag it over here i can do that i also can use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out or change the size of that clip area so you can do that uh and then you can set ptz now ptz is not true ptz you have zoom and you have focus so i can zoom in five times i don't know if you can hear that but it actually because it's a motorized lens the the microphone on the camera picks up that zoom motor working and you know the focus is auto focus but you can focus what i found with this client is that if i zoom way in and it focuses way out of focus automatically and i try to change this it's it's a very fine focus but either i'm going if i hold the button down here with the mouse it's going to get way off and if i hold it down here it's going to get way off the other way so there's a delay and then i've got to try to get it back into where it was so i'm just really playing with this a little bit at a time and it's it's very fine focus so you can get pretty granular with it but you just have to keep clicking the mouse you probably hear me doing that but i'm clicking the mouse clicking the mouse because if i hold the mouse down it's going to go past the focus point i'm gonna have to start again so really the autofocus is fine i don't see a need to really focus by doing this the thing about it is now that i've gotten this zoomed in like this uh i can't well actually i can let me see here okay so here here's what you can do and this is where the focus so you still have the full frame you're not actually tilting the camera you're taking a picture of a zoomed in area so i am zoomed in five times and i am well see what happens that doesn't work so what i can't do is i can't maybe i can do it this way that's just another way it zooms but it's not focusing so zooming in just kind of zooms in where the camera is pointed i can't adjust i'm already zoomed in all the way okay hang on a second let me think about this second now once i'm zoomed in if i have a clip area and i want to look at that a little bit more all right now i need to be able to focus that so let me try to focus a little bit see if i can read the letters on that trashcan i'm going to be very deliberate about my focusing here yep see it's already going out of focus but i can't get it to focus on the letters because it's just not quite good enough for that that's gonna be about as good as i can do but as soon as i close this uh this clips window then it goes back to my default zoom area so then i have to zoom back out again and there's no reset button i don't i don't know of any reset button that gets me back to default location it's not like it's not a true ptz camera so you're not going to get the ability to move it around and follow anything else that's going along you can just kind of zoom in on an area you're focused on so this is good for just focusing on um like let's say i had it aimed over here towards the truck a little bit more i could zoom in on maybe the truck window or something if someone were standing right there uh but let me get rid of that mask because that's kind of annoying so set up my privacy mask i'm going to delete this mask save it let's see if i got rid of it yep okay that's the other thing too when you delete it from that mask privacy mask setup page it doesn't get go away on the privacy mask page but it does go away on the the camera view so that's the overview of this oh and let's talk about playback so there's a couple things here if you have more than one device here you would drag your device here into the window and you pick your calendar date that you want to see your recordings in and it's going to give you a little window down here to choose from and you can start playing from the sd card this is playing from the sd card on the on the camera not on uh the the computer and it takes a minute for it to play i don't know if it's loading this or whatever into the camera but i i've had issues with this client trying to get to play back i think it plays a lot better on the phone app than it does on this windows app but again i'm not going to use it this way uh i don't like the whole sd card setup other than maybe for backup or something i don't like relying on an sd card in a camera cameras sit outside they get baked and all that other stuff so what it's doing is it's saving all of my uh videos into a video file like it was in that in in the uh uh the directory that we set up a minute ago and i'm actually uh getting those here and i can play those back uh if i can resize this for you i can play these videos back directly in vlc or something else so it's from the client it's storing all my videos on the computer here so i can play those back if i want to uh once again for the 20th time in the video i'm not going to use it this way i'm going to disable recording on the camera itself and i'm going to use frigate which is my nvr to do all of the work here but it is a very clean and crisp video here for that i'll show you some more video stuff here in a little bit but for playback it's just it's hard unless and and i guess you can zoom in with your mouse you can use your mouse wheel and pick a spot here and start playing this spot uh you have to hover over this line and then you have to bring your little your little uh line right here and then try to play it there it goes it's finally playing but you can play this at two times you can play it up to eight times although i don't know that it works real well above two that one's okay and then we can just we can just go through this video these video clips and by the way you can also resize that timeline by doing this you can drag it all the way to max and get your timeline and see the different videos that have been recorded during that timeline so again this is coming directly from the sd card so you wanna if you wanna play from the sd card you can using this client uh let's see if i can find one here that's it's just still even even even zooming in here i want to start at the beginning of that it's not an easy interface to go forward or backward in this is a frame by frame view and when it's playing from the sd card i don't know if the camera is still active in recording either whether or not it stops everything and plays these back so that you're losing your security while you're playing back stuff from the sd card i don't know um you can advance frame by frame and i guess this takes you to the next alert let's try that let me zoom back out here i'm going to go right here and put the timeline marker there start playing it and i'm going to click on this button here oh see now it only shows me uh people alerts yeah let's do vehicle alerts take off vehicle alerts so these supposedly are all to get away any motion give away so this is the only person so you can filter these by type of event so now this should be a person and it's not going to be a person because it thinks uh the autofocus is making it think it's a person but i will say that the detection has been pretty good even at night time it's picking up vehicles even vehicles that go by really fast and in addition it's also picking up people it picked me up as i was walking around the dark so this is the interface you can add new devices you can lock the screen and again we talked about all the settings you can download clips so if i wanted to download a clip from the sd card on the camera i could pick one of these clips and download it the client's already doing that for me so i don't need to do that so that's the client by itself now what i want to do is i want to get into some of the videos that i've taken with this camera both at night time and during the daytime and kind of walk you through we'll do uh we'll do a live uh play-by-play on some of the stuff i noticed about the camera uh so let's get to that and you can see how this camera performs uh with what with real people uh you've seen some of the vehicles going by now and then also some of how it performs at night time with the spotlight with the infrared uh and then without it especially in my environment so over to some of the clips okay so i'm going to take you through a series of videos now that i recorded with the camera and kind of talk you through some of those like i said it'll be a little bit of a play-by-play here so in this video here we're just looking at cars driving by uh just in a normal daytime usage and you can see here i'm running this at 30 frames per second so as you watch the cars go by on this street here you're able to see how clearly the cars show up in there and of course playing this back you can get a good idea with that 30 frames per second how well this works and of course in the background you're also getting tree movement you're getting other stuff one other thing to note here too is you're probably hearing the audio from the camera so we have this camera here showing cars going by this video is another video of cars driving by or a car driving by and again 30 frames per second and of course if you had to stop this and look at and pick out details you can you can scrub the video here now this is all being recorded from that mbr app and it's being saved in files on my pc based on those configuration settings we set up earlier in this video this is just me doing a simulated uh looking into vehicles in residential use cases you're going to be doing a lot of watching your vehicles in the driver or whatnot and this is typically people come up and try to get into your vehicle this way also you'll hear me talking to the neighbor next door and also hear me walking so that's how good the microphone is working so there i am walking up this is the daytime video so it picks it up pretty good um i'll show you another video here in a minute i'm talking a little bit more and in this video i'm actually walking back up towards the camera this these particular videos were shot early in the morning so you have daylight but not full sun daylight it's kind of cloudy outside and earlier in the morning and you still get good quality resolution from the cameras and in this one you'll hear better me talking on the microphone when you see me wandering back and forth aimlessly today and really good good facial recognition i mean this is just typical of a good quality camera you'll be able to see faces and make out uh very specific details and no problem at all with somebody uh identifying a person in a video if if it comes down to that for this particular camera all right so those are some of the daytime videos the daytime recording capability of this camera is really good it's very crisp it's hd you know you can get up to again 2560 by 1920 resolution i believe it is but it's really good um not not it it'll suffice for this kind of environment it works well we talked about zooming in stuff like that maybe not so much unless you can aim the camera somewhere where you want to maybe zoom in and zoom back out but keeping it static like this is probably what we're going to do most of so let me show you some night videos now in the night videos i have a couple different ways i did this and i'll just go through these a little bit at a time and we'll talk about them so this is this first video right here what i want to talk about is cars driving by now before you see it i'll tell you that uh this video was shot with the default setting so the the max resolution 15 frames per second i believe and then you have no or you have infrared turned on and no spot lighting so this is actually running the infrared and you can see uh on these tail lights of these vehicles this is not the lights on the vehicles this is the reflection of the infrared from way back where the camera is sitting so let's watch a car drive by and you'll see what it looks like at night time and we'll get a good idea of the resolution in detail now you see it kind of a choppy little bit that's because it's 15 frames per second if you come back and back it up you can kind of make out the car it's it's because it's running at at 15 frames per second it's not as crisp and clear and it's dark and you don't get any color because you're running black and white in a night mode on the camera so the next camera or the next video i want to show you is what i look like walking in infrared so this is me walking infrared and you can kind of see that i'm i'm visible but not super visible um and what you'll notice as i get closer is i'm okay here but as i get closer to the camera i'm gonna get washed out and not be able to tell the face now you can kind of see the face here like if we were to pause it as i'm walking up to um and i'm simulating breaking into a car again or looking in a car if i pause it right here i can kind of get some facial definition and kind of see what this person looks like but as i get close right there now you can definitely see that i'm really washed out but you know if you're doing this to try to identify a suspect you can take all of the images and whatnot that you've seen of this video and kind of build uh something that you can use so for surveillance this is probably going to work just fine now as i got real close to the camera it adjusted the white balance and it kept me from being so washed out it took a little bit of time to do that and i'm also walking pretty slow uh going by really fast you wouldn't really see that much detail but again it looks pretty decent um this this video right here with just black and white and the infrared turned on would suffice for most cases in just looking at the image itself it's nice and crisp and clean and i can make out a lot of detail on objects and for the most part i can kind of see a person's face now let's compare that to what a uh what i look like walking up in color now this is me walking up in color and i'm doing the same kind of thing i'm walking up and i'm looking at the into the vehicles now looking at my face here i get a little bit more definition because it's in color and color adds a ton of detail stuff you may not be able to see otherwise in the video now i'm still getting a little bit washed out there but not too bad but you can see me walking away here as well and one of the things i'm doing too is i'm wearing mostly black again so uh it doesn't afford a lot of detail on my clothing just because i'm wearing dark clothing all right let's look at what a car looks like driving by and a car driving by here in color is going to give you a lot more detail we can see here that this is a silver vehicle it's a pickup truck uh and it just gives you a and there's some trim there but it gives you a lot more detail on what's what's in the video so i like the color aspect of it even if i don't get quite as crisp looking video because some of the darker colors with movement aren't going to show up in a darker environment i still get a pretty good indication because the color adds a lot to the video here's another car video of a car driving by and it's um it's in color as well in fact it's the same vehicle going back and forth probably wondering what i'm doing crazy guy filming from a ladder with a camera or filming a ladder filming a camera attached to a ladder all right so there you see me turn on the spotlight i did this manually on the app from my phone and you'll see me come around the corner here and this is going to give you an indication of what i look like with the spotlight on now farther out from the camera it looks better because i can see more of the color of my clothing farther out and you see a bug fly in front of that frame that's that's always a problem here you're going to have bugs light up your camera and just get in the way of your video so i'd prefer to have lighting and infrared turned off all the time because i don't need the bugs doing stuff now you see me turn it off and i've got i've got some street light or some headlights helping me here but as i walk away you can kind of see the difference i'm not able to make out my clothing quite as much as i did with the spotlight on but the spotlight doesn't really add anything much to the overall picture out here at the street i don't really care as much as i care about being closer in so getting closer in with the spotlight off and no infrared gives me enough detail to be able to see what i'm doing here so let's see if i can find the video where i switch between color and non-color so in this video i switch between color and black and white you can see me out here right there and you can see where it switched from color to black and white let me do that again so i'm standing here let me go back farther so i'm standing here and i'm switching it with the app and i turn it to color mode and there's the difference you don't see a lot but you do see more definition one more time black and white and there's color it just gives you more definition or it gives you more detail right my face is able to be i still see my face just fine even out here at the end of the truck but i can tell color and other other stuff which is important in a lot of cases so that's some some video showing you how well the camera actually processes the video in all cases where there was a video that was a a video that was triggered by motion either vehicle or by a person i didn't do any kind of just any motion recording and it seems to have gotten every vehicle and every person walking by there were a couple videos i didn't show you of people walking by that it triggered even even before i was out there so it does very well with vehicle and person detection uh based on the camera itself it works well has great video uh nighttime and daytime your use cases are going to be dependent on where you put the camera and what you're trying to view with it if you're trying to view things like cars going by you're going to want 30 frames per second if you're trying to view people walking you probably get away with 15 frames per second the wi-fi is which which i'm running it on using the two mimo antennas was flawless in fact i've got a different camera in the same location that i had to put on a wired network because it was it wasn't working as well as this real link does so the real link works really really well on the wi-fi i'm out at the edge of my garage and i'm sending a full hd signal and it shows you the bandwidth on the app that when you're playing this i was running about uh five meg continuous from the camera to get the images that i'm that i was getting on there so that's how all of that works um gone through the settings what the camera features are and showed you quite a bit of the video that it that it produces now the final thing i want to show you is i want to show you what i'm going to do with frigate now i'm not i'm not going to go into a full frigate configuration i'm just going to go ahead and configure this camera in frigate and i'll show you uh the rtsp stream that frigate uses and then once i do that we'll just kind of take a look at a couple videos and frigate based on this camera and then we'll wrap it up so let's get into forget get that set up and then show you how that works so if you're not familiar with frigate frigate is a software nvr that you can tie to a bunch of different cameras and this is the current setup that i have right now i'm running this within my home and home assistant home automation environment and it allows me to set a lot of settings here in terms of masks and motion detection and object detection and all that kind of stuff using um using the frigate nvr so what i want to do is i want to add that camera that i've been playing with the real link camera to my frigate installation okay so here is my configuration file and again i'm not going to go into detail with uh the frigate installation or frigate configuration this is something that you all can watch my other frigate videos if you're interested in this however the one thing i do want to point out is the difference between the different cameras is you need to understand what these stream urls are for your rtsp streams and frigate uses rtsp this is the uh stream that you would or the url that you would use for a real link camera probably a lot of the different real ink cameras so this is the difference between all of the rest of the cameras that i've already set up is just changing this this is changing this url to match what the rio link cameras are needing for you to see their rtsp stream i'll just leave the rest of this stuff as is and now we can come down here and we can see that the camera has now been added let me take myself off the screen for a minute you can see the camera down here and of course we'll have no events and no recordings yet because there's nothing there i'm going to go ahead and open this garage door it's actually inside the garage facing out to the street and i'm going to open the garage door and it probably will trigger an event potentially but you'll be able to see that moving here in just a second so if i go to cameras and i look at the live view for this camera now we can see that we have a view in the front of this camera and this is going straight from that camera into frigate and you can already see that we have a person tracked so my neighbor's out doing some stuff and it's tracked this person and created an event for the person so if i look at events now and i filter on just the real link camera you can see all these events that just occurred as the garage door opened and the neighbors started walking around outside so right away just by configuring frigate with the information or the configuration that we have for our other cameras it immediately puts it within our uh within our frigate installation and i've got it set up in bird's eye view now so it's gonna pick up any kind of detection uh any kind of motion detection that this camera picks up and you'll see some of these other ones pop up as well so it's it's very very very easy to add this camera into frigate and it works just like all the rest of the cameras do uh you'll see that all of this stuff is uh all these cameras are up and just adding this real link makes one more camera to my frigate installation super simple super easy to do if you want more on the frigate part of this make sure you watch my frigate videos it talks about how i did all the frigate stuff frigate is an awesome mbr i'm using in place of my blue iris setup now riolink also does have an mbr as well so you can you can look at their nvr totally up to you on how you store this data uh there's probably some cloud services from real link as well that you can set up but again this camera can do everything it needs to do locally on the sd card on your local pc through the app that i showed you earlier uh through ftp if you want to save it that way and you can also get email alerts and stuff like that uh make sure you uh check out the frickin stuff if you want to know more about that thank you for watching the video i hope it was helpful i love the camera this is going to be a great addition to my setup and because it's wireless i can put anywhere i want as long as i have power to it the only thing i will say is i'm disappointed that it's not poe capable because most of my cameras are on poe in fact all of my cameras are on poe and i just wanna i don't have the ability to run a separate power line for them although you get a long power line extension cable with the the kit or with the camera so you can run it in a long distance if you need to ask me questions down below in the comments hit me up on discord and i will link this down below as well this product there is a as of this video a black friday sale going on so make sure you're checking that out the link for that is down below as well and uh we'll see on the 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Channel: mostlychris

Views: 1,183

Keywords: Smart Home, Home Assistant, Reolink, RLC-511, rlc511wa, frigate nvr, camera, surveillance camera, surveillance, reolink security camera, security camera, reolink camera, reolink rlc 511w

Id: h5kCiOc3qao

Length: 47min 10sec (2830 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 22 2021