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    • Monocle
      Monocle @GreggC last edited by

      @GreggC said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

      @GreggC Actually, the AI-360 is working fine. The problem was a mismatch in supported resolutions.

      I couldn’t get the high-quality stream (1920x1920) to work at all on my devices.

      Medium-quality (1280x1280) works on Echo Show but not on my 720P FireTV or FireStick devices.

      The low-quality stream (640:640) works all around. There is no 640640 setting within Monocle’s Video Resolution field, but I left it at 19201920 and it works fine.

      This turns out to be more useful than I remembered, especially on the round screen of an Echo Spot!

      Nice! It does seem that certain resolutions streams on the Unifi cameras are problematic. Which resolutions that are working and which fail seem to be model specific. We are not sure at this time why that’s the case. However, this is the first report I have read about the newer AI series cameras.

      The resolution field in the Monocle web portal is just metadata that we provide to Alexa devices for each camera stream. It’s not entirely clear what Alexa does with this information but I would make the assumption that she uses it to pick the best stream to playback based on the endpoint devices aspect ration and resolution capability. However, in practice I think Alexa mostly ignores this information and plays whatever stream resolution the actual stream contains. The API may support multiple streams per camera and maybe in this case the resolution metadata would have an actual purpose, but we don’t currently have support for defining multiple streams for each camera entity. Long story short, I don’t think the resolution field really matters all that much if any :-)

      -Robert

      Monocle: https://monoclecam.com
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      • Monocle
        Monocle @GreggC last edited by

        @GreggC said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

        @Monocle I have tested the UniFi RTSPS streams with @insecure, and these are also working fine.

        Nice job and thank you!

        Thanks for reporting your success with the new version and tags on Unifi cameras!

        Monocle: https://monoclecam.com
        Getting Started | Troubleshooting Guide | FAQ | Contact Support

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        • GreggC
          GreggC @Monocle last edited by

          @Monocle Thanks, but no need. Running great on Pi, and that’s one less dependency on that old Win7 machine that needs to be decom’d. :)

          Great that you got it working for others, tho.

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          • GreggC
            GreggC @Monocle last edited by

            @Monocle said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

            @GreggC said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

            @GreggC Actually, the AI-360 is working fine. The problem was a mismatch in supported resolutions.

            I couldn’t get the high-quality stream (1920x1920) to work at all on my devices.

            Medium-quality (1280x1280) works on Echo Show but not on my 720P FireTV or FireStick devices.

            The low-quality stream (640:640) works all around. There is no 640640 setting within Monocle’s Video Resolution field, but I left it at 19201920 and it works fine.

            This turns out to be more useful than I remembered, especially on the round screen of an Echo Spot!

            Nice! It does seem that certain resolutions streams on the Unifi cameras are problematic. Which resolutions that are working and which fail seem to be model specific. We are not sure at this time why that’s the case. However, this is the first report I have read about the newer AI series cameras.

            The resolution field in the Monocle web portal is just metadata that we provide to Alexa devices for each camera stream. It’s not entirely clear what Alexa does with this information but I would make the assumption that she uses it to pick the best stream to playback based on the endpoint devices aspect ration and resolution capability. However, in practice I think Alexa mostly ignores this information and plays whatever stream resolution the actual stream contains. The API may support multiple streams per camera and maybe in this case the resolution metadata would have an actual purpose, but we don’t currently have support for defining multiple streams for each camera entity. Long story short, I don’t think the resolution field really matters all that much if any :-)

            -Robert

            All that makes perfect sense.

            It’s also understandable that any camera stream >1080 wouldn’t work on my HD-class Fire devices. One being an actual 720p/1080i TV and the other being designed for a 720p/1080i TV, that’s all we can expect them to accept.

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            • Monocle
              Monocle @GreggC last edited by

              @GreggC said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

              It’s also understandable that any camera stream >1080 wouldn’t work on my HD-class Fire devices. One being an actual 720p/1080i TV and the other being designed for a 720p/1080i TV, that’s all we can expect them to accept.

              Well, they should scale the stream in theory (assuming adequate compute power). The Echo Show Spot will successfully display resolutions great than the capability of the LCD. Who really knows … Amazon does not provide any technical detail to these types of questions.

              I think the failing streams for Unifi cameras are some other issue. But unfortunately we don’t get any debug info or error codes from Alexa devices when a stream fails. It’s just a black box.

              Monocle: https://monoclecam.com
              Getting Started | Troubleshooting Guide | FAQ | Contact Support

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              • GreggC
                GreggC @GreggC last edited by

                @GreggC said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

                @Monocle Thanks, but no need. Running great on Pi, and that’s one less dependency on that old Win7 machine that needs to be decom’d. :)

                Great that you got it working for others, tho.

                I am referring to the offer for “a hacked” version of Monocle Gateway v0.0.6 compiled to work on Windows 7".

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                  bk @GreggC last edited by

                  @GreggC said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

                  @GreggC said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

                  @Monocle Thanks, but no need. Running great on Pi, and that’s one less dependency on that old Win7 machine that needs to be decom’d. :)

                  Great that you got it working for others, tho.

                  I am referring to the offer for “a hacked” version of Monocle Gateway v0.0.6 compiled to work on Windows 7".

                  Me too… The hacked worked great. But after speaking with Robert, finally dug out the P3B+ I had sitting around for years, and it’s working very well (and yes a me too - off my Win7 workstation.) But big Thanks to Robert @Monocle for giving it Win7 a final run.

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                    domenv @Monocle last edited by

                    @Monocle

                    Hello,
                    I have done everything as instructed. I use PI for the Monocle gateway. However, I still fail to see the camera on my Alexa. It gives me the following error shown in the picture:
                    Screenshot 2022-10-07 at 17.44.18.png

                    When I start the monocle gateway it shows everything as it should be:Screenshot 2022-10-07 at 17.45.14.png

                    What should I do? i’ve looked all over the forum and haven’t found a solution. I have a USG-3P router, but I can’t find the settings for
                    DNS rebinding.

                    https://monoclecam.com/monocle-gateway/troubleshooting/dns-rebinding

                    Thanks for your help
                    Domen

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                      HomeTechDad @Monocle last edited by

                      @Monocle I have tried to follow all of the steps to get this working, but I still have issues with the camera showing on Alexa.

                      Setup:
                      Windows 10 Monocle gateway
                      Unifi G4 bullet, G3 bullet

                      I do not see any error with the gateway:

                      -------------------------------------------------
                      MONOCLE GATEWAY SERVICE         (Version: 0.0.6)
                      -------------------------------------------------
                      [Monocle Starting]
                      [Monocle Connecting]
                      [Monocle Started]
                      [RTSP Server Starting]
                      [RTSP Server Listening] 0.0.0.0:8555 (RTSP)
                      [RTSP Server Listening] 0.0.0.0:443 (RTSP-TLS)
                      [RTSP Proxy Started] (PID=4264)
                      [RTSP Server Listening] 0.0.0.0:8554 (PROXY)
                      [RTSP Server Started]
                      [Monocle Connected]
                      [RTSP Server Registered]
                      
                      -------------------------------------------------
                      MONOCLE RTSP SERVICE - INITIALIZED
                      -------------------------------------------------
                      FQDN = 78a711de-64e3-49a7-8355-xxxxxxxxxxxx.mproxy.io
                      HOST = 172.22.192.1
                      PORT = 443
                      -------------------------------------------------
                      
                      #--- THIS IS WHERE I ASK ALEXA TO SHOW ROUNDABOUT --#
                      
                      -------------------------------------------------
                      INITIALIZE RTSP STREAM:  Roundabout
                      -------------------------------------------------
                      - NAME          : Roundabout
                      - CAMERA.MFG    : Unifi
                      - CAMERA.MODEL  : G4
                      - CAMERA.LABEL  : PRIMARY
                      - RTSP.URL      : rtsps://192.168.1.1:7441/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                      - STREAM.ID     : STREAM:d36edc7a-9773-4db1-b9eb-xxxxxxxxxxxx
                      - SESSION.ID    : 207f051a-c4cd-4d6a-b7de-xxxxxxxxxxxx
                      - LAST.MODIFIED : Fri Oct 14 2022 12:27:24 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
                      - TAGS          : @fixaudio,@insecure,@tunnel
                      -------------------------------------------------
                      
                      ATTENTION -> Next you should see log statements showing your camera
                                   establishing an inbound connection to this gateway instance via:
                      -> DNS URL: rtsp://78a711de-64e3-49a7-8355-xxxxxxxxxxxx.mproxy.io:443/STREAM:d36edc7a-9773-4db1-b9eb-xxxxxxxxxxxx
                      -> This DNS host address should resolve to: 172.22.192.1:443 on your network.
                      
                      NOTE: If you don't receive any inbound connection log statements,
                            please see: https://monoclecam.com/monocle-gateway-troubleshooting
                      

                      It appears that Alexa hits the service as the “Roundabout” cam gets logged. But there are no other logs after the last “NOTE”.

                      I have tried all 3 resolution sizes from Unifi with no luck.
                      I have removed ?enableSrtp

                      Any thoughts/suggsions on things I should try?

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                        0Nulls @domenv last edited by

                        @domenv said in Unifi Camera Update! (Fix Available for Testing Now):

                        @Monocle

                        Hello,
                        I have done everything as instructed. I use PI for the Monocle gateway. However, I still fail to see the camera on my Alexa. It gives me the following error shown in the picture:
                        Screenshot 2022-10-07 at 17.44.18.png

                        When I start the monocle gateway it shows everything as it should be:Screenshot 2022-10-07 at 17.45.14.png

                        What should I do? i’ve looked all over the forum and haven’t found a solution. I have a USG-3P router, but I can’t find the settings for
                        DNS rebinding.

                        https://monoclecam.com/monocle-gateway/troubleshooting/dns-rebinding

                        Thanks for your help
                        Domen

                        I’m having this same issue with a UDM-Pro Router.

                        Thank you,

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                          HomeTechDad @HomeTechDad last edited by

                          @HomeTechDad Also, I had all of this working prior to the unifi Rtsps update on Monocle gateway 0.0.4

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                            RS @HomeTechDad last edited by

                            @HomeTechDad

                            Have you by chance signed up for another token on the monocle portal, I think there maybe and issue where it is not successfully registering new dns entries for new tokens as I appear to have had the same such issue.

                            To get round it I created a dns entry internally on my network for the proxy.io address which solved my issue.

                            This may not help you though as most people do not run DNS internally.

                            @Monocle are you able to check if new tokens are successfully registering them proxy.io dns entries?

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                              HomeTechDad @RS last edited by

                              @RS Thanks!! I tried a new token file and it now generates a DNS error that was not showing before.

                              2022-10-17T13:14:18.526Z [ERROR] DNS RESOLVE ERROR: Error: queryA ENOTFOUND a1481ee2-c89e-438c-b1be-xxxxxxxxxxxx.mproxy.io
                              [
                                'DNS RESOLVE ERROR: Error: queryA ENOTFOUND a1481ee2-c89e-438c-b1be-xxxxxxxxxxxx.mproxy.io'
                              ]
                              

                              I am assuming this means I need to create that DNS entry on my network. First time trying that and it seems like it is not supper easy with a unifi Dream Machine Pro… If anyone has done this on UDMP, let me know. Otherwise, I will post back once I figure it out.

                              Thanks again!

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                                HomeTechDad @RS last edited by

                                @RS @Monocle Ok, I decided to set up pi-hole on a raspberry pi to help with the DNS for mproxy.io as I could not get my unifi UDM Pro to handle this… This still did not help my windows version of the monocle gateway (0.0.6). So, I decided to switch to the monocle gateway setup on the pi. Interestingly, it works (after restarting my echo show 8) for my unifi G3’s but not my G4…

                                The only difference that I know of is the resolution because of the camera differences.
                                G3 is using a 1920x1080 rtsp stream
                                G4 is using a 1280x720 rtsp stream

                                Both are set with @fixaudio and @tunnel. I also tried @noaudio which worked for the G3’s but not the G4.

                                Also verified that the rtsps version works for the G3’s when you add the @insecure tag. But not the G4.

                                The only Error I see is:

                                [ERROR] DNS RESOLVE ERROR: Error: queryA ENOTFOUND 62e9e6fa-6a6c-4e9b-9a63-xxxxxxxxxxxx.mproxy.io
                                

                                But I see this same error when calling for the G3’s and the G4… So, I am not sure why the feed still works for the G3’s and not the G4…

                                Will need to post the logs as a reply as my post is too long.

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                                  HomeTechDad @HomeTechDad last edited by

                                  @HomeTechDad

                                  G4 Logs: https://pastebin.com/fDkUPaGZ
                                  G3 Logs: https://pastebin.com/HQQR95r4

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                                  • Monocle
                                    Monocle @RS last edited by

                                    @RS

                                    Yes, I will verify the backend DNS system is working in the next day or two. It certainly sounds suspect and could potentially be causing these issues for newer systems/tokens.

                                    Thanks, Robert

                                    Monocle: https://monoclecam.com
                                    Getting Started | Troubleshooting Guide | FAQ | Contact Support

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                                      Monocle @HomeTechDad last edited by

                                      @HomeTechDad

                                      I don’t think Alexa devices obtain their DNS servers using your local DNS settings provided by your router. I suspect they are using some hard coded public DNS server. Thus, the DNS record must be publicly available and resolvable.

                                      PM me your full (unmasked) *.mproxy.io DNS record and I’ll test it from here and look it up on the DNS servers where it should be configured. The issue is sounding like a DNS failure in the backend/hosted Monocle servers.

                                      Thanks, Robert

                                      Monocle: https://monoclecam.com
                                      Getting Started | Troubleshooting Guide | FAQ | Contact Support

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                                        RS @HomeTechDad last edited by

                                        @HomeTechDad

                                        There are some reports of issues with certain resolutions not working which I have with my doorbell, are you able try 1080p from the g4 instead of 720p?

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                                          RS @Monocle last edited by

                                          @Monocle

                                          Just from my experience (on my setup can’t confirm if this the same for all devices) my show does seem to respect/use the dns server supplied by DHCP and therefore if you host your own DNS server (I use a synology) and are able to “host” the mproxy.io record that the echo devices use (not the gateway pc/device) it can get around the issues with DNS.

                                          Hope this helps

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                                            HomeTechDad @RS last edited by

                                            @RS Thanks for the suggestion! G4 typically only outputs 3 stream presets 640p, 720p, and 4k. However, I found this link with instructions to enable a 1080p output: https://community.ui.com/questions/UVC-G4-PRO-is-able-to-produce-1080p/a30a8dc4-80c7-4e17-bc5a-6d0c07467689#answer/87194840-96e2-4013-a83f-960f19576f05

                                            This finally fixed my issue!! Thank you so much @RS!!

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