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1. Re: endless "camera thread starting... for url" messages
(Colin Law)
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:37:17 +0000
From: Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] endless "camera thread starting... for url"
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On 24 December 2017 at 20:14, Ted Timmons <t...@perljam.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 11:16 PM Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > It's always the same camera; there's no timestamp but the messages are a
>> > minute or more apart. I've added rtsp_uses_tcp for this cam, still
>> > happens.
>> > Is this a signal (strength) problem?
>>
>> If you access that url from (for example) VLC does it work?
>>
>> It won't be a signal strength problem as it is being accessed over the
>> ethernet, unless you mean that the ethernet cable is too long, in
>> which case it will also fail with other clients such as vlc
>
>
> The cam is over wifi (not eth), so .. I'm leaving RSSI on the list of
> potential problems. I'll monitor it over VLC for a while and see if I get
> drops.
Oh, you meant wifi signal strength, I thought you meant video signal strength.
If it fundamentally works with VLC but never works with motion then
that is not the problem.
Since you say the problem is just with this camera, does that mean you
have other identical cameras that motion does work with, using the
same configuration.
Colin
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