TC70 - RTSP Issues
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Had this camera working fine streaming to local NVR (via ONVIF) + VLC (via RTSP) for many months; however recently cannot connect through VLC or other 3rd party apps using RTSP.
VLC error for stream1 and stream2:
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://username:password@192.168.0.xx:554/stream1'. Check the log for details.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://username:password@192.168.0.xx:554/stream2'. Check the log for details.
If I reboot camera (with micoSD card inserted), ONVIF also stops working when using http://192.168.0.xx:2020/onvif/device_service
This site can’t be reached192.168.0.xx refused to connect.
Only way to get ONVIF working is by removing the microSD card and then placing it back in once connected.
Tried disabling MicroSD recording and then rebooting but that doesn't help. I have to physically remove the microSD card.
No settings have ben changed on my NVR, VLC or Tapo camera app for that matter. PC, NVR + camera are on the same local network.
One thing that may have caused this is that I inadvertantly switched on the 30day Cloud Trial Offer. Durig this period I was getting warning notifications suggesting that microSD and NVR recording at the same time is not optimal. Surely microSD recording should always be allowed if enabled (as a minimum) and serve as a backup should the camera lose it's wifi connection and thus stops streaming. With the microSD (local recording), you at least can review recorded videos during this 'outage' (?)
I have now cancelled the trial, but the 'bug' remains!
Please advise urgently as this is impacting my livestrem monitoring as a carer of an old person.
Anyone else having issues with RTSP live streaming?
Hi @Solla-topee thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I have removed the SD card and able to stream to a local NVR + use the Tapo App remotely (LQ mode only). I did notice that when streaming via VLC, the Tapo App would not work and vice versa.
In the past while having the SD card recording, I was able to stream to 1 local NVR + 1 remote NVR (backup) and occasionally use the Tapo App without noticing any issues. Possibly I didn't notice occasional NVR disconnects when using the Tapo App...
Q1: When you say the Camera supports two of the three among Tapo Care/SD card/NVR(onvif or rtsp streaming) working at the same time. To clarify, you can for example:
record via SD card + use RTSP stream1 or stream2 (but not both RTSP streams at the same time)?
FYI:
Local NVR = Hikvision (viewing through iVMS 4200 client). Config is per below:
Remote NVR = QNAP's QVR Pro. Config is per below:
Q2: At the moment (without SD card inserted) my remote NVR is not able to connect (anymore). Based on what you've said, I'm assuming that's because my local NVR has taken up the ONVIF/RTSP port/allocation?
Q3: Apologies, I'm not very technical... Even if you setup local NVR to use ONVIF protocol (port 2020), it still uses RTSP (port 554) for streaming?
In summary (as only 2 streams are supported at the same time) it appears I can do either
a) local NVR (ONVIF/RTSP stream1) + Tapo App (LQ/stream2), or
b) local NVR (ONVIF/RTSP stream1) + VLC (stream2), or
Q4: Should I able to do below combination also:
c) local NVR (ONVIF/RTSP stream1) + remote NVR (ONVIF/RTSP stream2) ? If so, maybe I need to figure out how to switch from stream1 to stream2... to get remote NVR to (re)connect
Finally, while I appreciate there are hardware limitations, I would expect the camera to always record locally to SD card (if inserted and enabled) - which would serve as a backup (to review later) should the camera lose it's wifi connection and then coem back online.
Happy to provide MAC/logs privately if required.
