Reolink Camera Utility Scripts

This repository contains different bash scripts and commands for reolink camera.

Requirements

These scripts use ffmpeg, to install it you can:

apt install ffmpeg    # linux debian-based
brew install ffmpeg   # mac

If you are using Windows you can download it from here.

Why ffmpeg?

I tried **openRTSP** ❌ but half of the video in the MP4 format is without audio and I don't know why.

example:

openRTSP -D 1 -c -B 10000000 -b 10000000 -q -Q -F cam_eight -d 28800 -P 10 -t rtsp://"admin":"mypassword"@192.168.0.176:554

source of command and explanation: https://superuser.com/questions/766437/capture-rtsp-stream-from-ip-camera-and-store

I tried VLC ❌ but I got some issues saving the files with the audio and managing it.

example command:

cvlc rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554//h264Preview_01_main --sout=file/ts:mystream.mpg

FFmpeg was the best, so I chose it. ✅

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Usage

Download and use the script:

git clone https://github.com/ReolinkCameraAPI/scripts
cd scripts

download.sh

How to use it:

chmod +x download.sh
./download.sh -u myusername -p mypassowrd -i 192.168.1.197 -t 60 -n 554 -o tmp

• -u username of your camera
• -p password of your camera
• -i camera local IP address
• -t is the time in seconds that any file will contain (default value 60)
• -n is the port (default value 554)
• -o output directory path (default ., the current directory)

To stop the execution you can type Ctrl + C.

This script uses ffmpeg to download via RTSP the video and audio from your camera saving it in the MP4 format, the name will start with the date of the day (ex. 2022-08-26--22-00-00-capture-0000.mp4) and a file will be recorded and saved every $TIME seconds.
The name of the files starts with a date to make it easier the management of the files, like removing easily all the records of a specific month, day or year.

clean_record.sh

chmod +x clean_record.sh
./clean_record.sh

This script deletes all the records inside a tmp directory of the previous month.