I have seen lots of forums posting show me your dashboards. I am always interested in seeing peoples creativity and it inspired me to mount an iPad on a wall and build a dashboard with Sharp Tools, which I have signed up for (paid version). The first thing I encountered is I cannot see my front door’s camera feed. I have seen lots of these show me your dashboard posts that show a camera feed but I cannot make it work.
My camera is a Reolink and I am using synology surveillance to record my feed along with several other cameras. I have read tons about it on Reddit and the Sharp Tools Forum but have had no success. I am using the chrome browser on my PC to build the dashboard. Any suggestions?
Thanks for the tag @aaiyar. I've been corresponding with @Farris a bit, but I'll cover some of the high-level points here for anyone who finds this in the future.
The main thing is that your camera will need to output a supported format. For most cases, that means MJPEG. Web browsers don't natively support RTSP, so if your camera only outputs that format, you'll need something like Blue Iris or TinyCam to translate the feed (there's tons of other options out there - these just happen to be the most popular with the community).
Alternatively, some people prefer to display image snapshot that refreshes every few seconds and have that tile link to their preferred camera app. Most IP cameras support outputting a JPEG snapshot which is great for this purpose. You can set that image to refresh as quickly as you'd like. Then you can configure the tile to use a Hyperlink action and link to your preferred camera software.
I wanted to follow up on this, after doing quite a bit of reading, I decided to take a new tact. I started looking at the Reolink Camera itself. It turns out that Reolink provides a link directly to the camera that broadcasts in the correct format.
