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Today's Topics:
1. Network cameras hang randomly (Barry Martin)
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:04:11 -0500
From: Barry Martin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Motion-user] Network cameras hang randomly
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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
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