Has anyone been able to setup the ZR10 video stream with the new Herelink (AirUnit V1.1)?
I am having some troubles I guess with the network/camera setup.
What exactly are your troubles?
I will try to explain in the best way I can.
The video stream is supposed to come out of the Herelink, both on QGS and any other device that are connected to it its hotspot at rtsp://192.168.43.1:8554/fpv_stream. Whatever device you would connect to the Herelink hotspot will get a 192.168.43.xxx IP.
The internal IP of the network, as far as I have read online is like this: 192.168.144.10 for the AirUnit and 192.168.144.11 for the Ground Unit. One can connect to the “internal” network by using a USB OTG and a ESB to Ethernet adapter on either the Air or the Ground unit, and recently with the Air V1.1, directly to the Eth port exposed on the Air unit. In that case, one could access the video stream at rtsp://192.168.144.10:8554/H264Video.
Accessing the 192.168.144 IPs will not be possible when you are connected though the hotspot since your IP is 192.168.43.xx.
What I would like is as seamless integration of the video stream with the ZR10 camera as we would have if a camera would be connected to the HDMI. In other words, to be able to view the video stream on QGC on the Ground Unit and on a third device that is connected to the Ground Unit via the ground units hotspot or if both are connected to the same access point.
What setting should I do to have the system la that? Maybe the Herelink will automatically forward the video stream if it comes to a specific 192.168.144.xx IP?
I wonder if the AirUnit is listening for a RTSP stream from somewhere so that it could forward it?
By setting the camera IP to 192.168.144.25 I cannot see the stream on QGC, although I have set the same IP for the video stream in QGC.
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I still cannot use the camera and this is what I arrived to:
I have set the ip of the camera to 192.164.144.25 and the gateway to 192.168.144.11(ground unit ip).
I installed a apk that lets me ping and I was able to ping 192.164.144.25 from the ground unit.
From another post I understood that the camera has a user interface, like usual ip cameras. I install a browser on the ground unit and tried to go to this ip, to just verify that I am greeted by the credentials page of the camera, but interestingly there is nothing there.
In the manual of the camera it is stated that I should find the RTSP stream at rtsp://192.168.144.25:8554/main.264. QGC does not show a video, and the console does not clearly state why so I install VLC and tried to access the stream and the logs state that there is no stream.
I guess at this point that the issue, at least for now, has something to do with the camera and its stream.
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Would you mind showing us a video with all above information, please? I’m sure there is something wrong using the camera with Herelink. A video can help us find out the problem quickly, thanks
Hi frank,
Thank you for the help! Initially I uploaded 2 videos with the issue but part of is has since been solved so I edited this message.
But I encountered 2 other issues.
- There is about a 1.5 second delay of the feed if I connect to the camera through a router.
- The video is very laggy and delayed if I view it on VLC or QGC.
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Hi Mark
We are in holiday right now and may need some time to get back into this issue.
Hi Frank,
I checked what he posted and that was related to a connection issue, which I solved. My current issues are related to video lag - so I got it connected but I encountered a 1.5sec lag and around 1fps.
Please check the videos from the previous post.
I did a loot of latency testing and found RTSP on VLC a problem although I did got it working at one point
I’m using Happytime RTSP client. You can try such a program on your laptop
- Are you streaming at 1080p or 720p?
- Please try SIYI modified QGC. You can download it in the ZR10 page.
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Thanks @champ8242 and Frank! I installed Happytime RTSP on the Herelink but the issue is similar to VLC or Qgroundcontrol.
I think that most important things work now, with the Siyi QGC app. @SIYI , where is a good place to ask questions about the Siyi QGC? For example I have a notification of Terrain Load Progress that does not go away and I am sure I will have other questions regarding this.
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Check here
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Still waiting SIYI to share the source of the modified QGC you used. You developed it with a shareware version of QT so you have to re share. If you don’t you break the rules about sharing the QGC is released under.
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VLC is pretty bad for low latency streaming with any RTSP feed. It has a default 1000ms buffer, you can make it lower but I’ve found it becomes unstable below 150ms whereas QGC doesn’t have that issue.
You are posting now your question muliple times in various topics without success! Don’t you think it’s time now to move on instead of flooding your frustration to other users?
I’ve answered the same questions in the QGC thread. There is no update so far.
After the holiday, I’ll check for more updates.
Just to be clear, I will only reply to QGC questions in the QGC thread on ardupilot forum. I don’t know why it is so difficult to post relevant questions in relevant discussions.
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Dear @SIYI I would like to report 3 issues with the camera:
- Sometimes, without a clear reason, but definitely after keeping the camera on for longer than 30min, the buttons on the Siyi app do not work any more. Restarting the app fixes the issue. I do not know if this is related to the app or the connection.
- Just after takeoff, if the camera is focused on something close to it (grass for example), it will not focus to infinity on its own. Zooming fixes this. It should search for focus on its own and I should not have to zoom to get the camera to focus.
- I cannot pull the RTSP stream to a second device, therefore my only way for now to share the video stream further is to share the ground unit screen of my HereLink. Could I pull the camera RTSP stream directly to a second device that would be running Windows or Linux if I would be using your MK15 or MK32?
Forwarded to the team. Will update asap.
I think it is possible. Welcome to have a try.