Fire TV Stick 4K [SOLVED]

[vmsman]

@cmjanus ok. Let me know. My email is [email protected] – Scott

[cmjanus]

@vmsman @Monocle
I finally got it working!!! And of course it was something really stupid. It was the resolution. It was too high 2688x1520. Not having a 4K Fire stick must of been what was messing it up. I tried stream 2 (640x340) and it worked. I then created a third stream (1280x720) and still works. Also I did not need the Gateway.

I sincerely appreciate all the help and support this forum provides. Thanks!!!

[vmsman]

@cmjanus Excellent to hear. I just got a new Amcrest IP4M-1051. It’s a pretty good camera but not performing at even partway reasonable resolution through the Monocle Gateway. The native resolution is 2688x1520, however the result on the show is a 4x3 display lacking resolution. I’m scratching my head on that one.

[Monocle]

@cmjanus

Glad to hear it!

[Monocle]

@vmsman said in Fire TV Stick 4K:

@cmjanus Excellent to hear. I just got a new Amcrest IP4M-1051. It’s a pretty good camera but not performing at even partway reasonable resolution through the Monocle Gateway. The native resolution is 2688x1520, however the result on the show is a 4x3 display lacking resolution. I’m scratching my head on that one.

I’m running an Amcrest IP4M-1051W here without issues through the Monocle Gateway. I even have the camera on WiFI for the moment — planned to move to ethernet soon. Here are my camera’s settings:

I also have P2P networking disabled. I try to disable P2P on all cameras an my network :-)

And here are the Monocle camera settings:

Thanks, Robert

[vmsman]

@Monocle Thanks! That was my gotcha. I was on subtype=1 and that was responsible for the 4x3. It also helped to drop the bit rate as you did. I was hoping that the camera would be more responsive on wifi. Especially since my Unifi AP-AC-PRO is about 14 feet straight line unobstructed from the camera and I have a strong 5Ghz AC signal to it. I can see why you are considering wired now. By the way, have you gotten the PTZ controls working via 3RD party NVR? Do you know if this camera is POE?

[Monocle]

@vmsman said in Fire TV Stick 4K:

I can see why you are considering wired now. By the way, have you gotten the PTZ controls working via 3RD party NVR? Do you know if this camera is POE?

I just prefer to hardwire when possible. Less saturation on my WiFi network and better performance especially on these super high resolution cameras. The image this camera produces looks great on my Echo Shows (Gen1 and Gen2). I also like the wide field of view.

I have not done anything with PTZ on this camera yet.

This camera is not POE. I did order this PoE adapter/splitter that is a perfect fit for the Amcrest cameras (don’t really need the extra adapters that are included with the kit):

• https://amzn.to/2H4V1uY (Single)
• https://amzn.to/2Swb4V3 (Two-Pack)

[vmsman]

@Monocle Three of my five cameras are POE. I have two Reolink RLC-420’s and one Reolink RLC-411WS. My favorite camera is my GW Security GW-GW5747MIC. It has very nice resolution at 2592x1920 with a 1.9mm lens, and 160 degrees of view. I use it on a tight front porch and it does great. I have my Amcrest IP4M-1051 installed and recording on my QNAP QVR Pro software NVR. I am writing a Samsung SmartThings Webcore piston as we speak to trigger the NVR into recording whenever the mode shifts from “Home” to “AWAY” and to stop when we return. QVR Pro supports HTTP POST requests from Webcore that I can use to toggle recording. I’ve set up the IP4M-1051 to do snapshots and SMTP mail as the target. I’ve used that configuration to capture visitors to my front porch, but I am not sure that is practical for the IP4M-1051 since it is in the family room and would only be catching the cat being bad…LOL.

[cmjanus]

Glad to hear everyone is getting their cameras working. I do have about a 10 second lag. Any ideas how to Make it stream quicker? Thanks.

[vmsman]

@cmjanus From great experience, the answer is HARD WIRE it.

[cmjanus]

@vmsman it is. Lol always something.

[Monocle]

@cmjanus said in Fire TV Stick 4K:

Glad to hear everyone is getting their cameras working. I do have about a 10 second lag. Any ideas how to Make it stream quicker? Thanks.

See my comment in this thread:
https://forum.monoclecam.com/topic/121/10-second-delay

[docelmo]

Hi… New here… So I got all of my cameras setup and everything works internally but this Alexa psycho keeps saying hmm… The camera isnt responding. I have tried with and without the gateway I am racking my brain here. HELP!

I have followed all of the directions and instructions in this thread as well on the website. I dont know what I am doing wrong. I have the following…

Amazon Firestick 4k…
IP8M-2496EB

They are all PoE they work fine with VLC and my Amcrest NVR. I really wanna be lazy and tell Alexa to show the camera on my TV’s… HELP PLEASE!

Brian

[docelmo]

Also does this mean anything?

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INITIALIZE RTSP STREAM: Porch

• NAME : Porch
• LABEL : PRIMARY
• URL : rtsp://192.168.3.39:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
• UUID : STREAM:8d8a51ca-bac7-4b72-9f04-7e9b23903711
• SESS : 93ace2f7-174a-4ad7-88c0-99f5a168c61e
• MODIF : Sat Apr 06 2019 22:32:50 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
• TAGS : @tunnel

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RTSP STREAM MODIFIED: Porch
Any existing RTSP steams will be shut down
and a new stream instance will be registered.

2019-04-07T02:33:05.532Z [DEBUG] <RTSP-PROXY> [REQUEST] --> [DEREGISTER] rtsp://192.168.3.39:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
2019-04-07T02:33:05.532Z [TRACE] <RTSP-PROXY> [REQUEST] --> [HEADERS] {
“cseq”: “1”,
“transport”: “reuse_connection=0;preferred_delivery_protocol=udp;proxy_url_suffix=STREAM:8d8a51ca-bac7-4b72-9f04-7e9b23903711”
}
2019-04-07T02:33:05.534Z [DEBUG] <RTSP-PROXY> [RESPONSE] <-- [451 (Invalid parameter)] <cseq=1> (session=undefined)
2019-04-07T02:33:05.534Z [TRACE] <RTSP-PROXY> [RESPONSE] <-- [HEADERS] {
“cseq”: “1”,
“date”: “Sun, Apr 07 2019 02:33:05 GMT”
}

[Monocle]

@docelmo

I am using this same camera with no issues. You must use the Monocle Gateway when using the FireTV 4K Stick. So don’t bother testing without it, it definitely won’t work without it.

Here is what my camera settings look like:

Also, on the camera’s own web configuration pages, make sure you have configured the stream to use H.264. I can’t remember, but this camera may ship using H.265 by default.

The log info you attached is suggesting that at one point you were using the “@proxy” tag and then made a change to the camera settings via the Monocle Gateway. The 451 error is suggesting that there is something wrong – but lets try using “@tunnel” instead since we know that is working for this camera.

Thanks, Robert

[docelmo]

@Monocle thanks for the info. I have all of that in place. Question though. I see you are using a sub stream. Were you able to set the cameras sub stream to 1080P? Mine will not allow me to change from 640x480 when I click the drop down in the camera’s video settings.

Brian

[Monocle]

@docelmo

Yes, I was able to use the primary stream as well. (I typically have it set to use the primary stream, but I must have switched this to the secondary stream during some testing.)

Try to capture the log from Monocle Gateway as you ask Alexa to show the camera stream. You should see “INITIALIZE RTSP STREAM: Porch” messages immediately followed by log info about the Alexa device connecting to the RTSP server of the gateway. If you don’t see any inbound RTSP connections after the “INITIALIZE RTSP STREAM: Porch” then it could be an issue related to network access of the Monocle Gateway. Similar issue reported on this thread: https://forum.monoclecam.com/topic/153/reolink-camera-wont-show-on-alexa-tv/3

Thanks, Robert

[docelmo]

Thanks I will look at this. Also here is the debug… This shows then that psycho says hmm… camera isnt responding…

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INITIALIZE RTSP STREAM: Porch

• NAME : Porch
• LABEL : PRIMARY
• URL : rtsp://192.168.3.39:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
• UUID : STREAM:8d8a51ca-bac7-4b72-9f04-7e9b23903711
• SESS : cfc9769a-1983-4fe4-8a72-535270e7206e
• MODIF : Mon Apr 08 2019 08:51:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
• TAGS : @tunnel

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RTSP STREAM MODIFIED: Porch
Any existing RTSP steams will be shut down
and a new stream instance will be registered.

2019-04-08T13:08:30.264Z [DEBUG] <RTSP-PROXY> [REQUEST] --> [DEREGISTER] rtsp://192.168.3.39:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
2019-04-08T13:08:30.264Z [TRACE] <RTSP-PROXY> [REQUEST] --> [HEADERS] {
“cseq”: “1”,
“transport”: “reuse_connection=0;preferred_delivery_protocol=udp;proxy_url_suffix=STREAM:8d8a51ca-bac7-4b72-9f04-7e9b23903711”
}
2019-04-08T13:08:30.265Z [DEBUG] <RTSP-PROXY> [RESPONSE] <-- [451 (Invalid parameter)] <cseq=1> (session=undefined)
2019-04-08T13:08:30.265Z [TRACE] <RTSP-PROXY> [RESPONSE] <-- [HEADERS] {
“cseq”: “1”,
“date”: “Mon, Apr 08 2019 13:08:30 GMT”
}

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INITIALIZE RTSP STREAM: Porch

• NAME : Porch
• LABEL : PRIMARY
• URL : rtsp://192.168.3.39:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
• UUID : STREAM:8d8a51ca-bac7-4b72-9f04-7e9b23903711
• SESS : 93aed62f-9123-4655-a9cb-33a19f0a60f7
• MODIF : Mon Apr 08 2019 08:51:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
• TAGS : @tunnel

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INITIALIZE RTSP STREAM: Porch

• NAME : Porch
• LABEL : PRIMARY
• URL : rtsp://192.168.3.39:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
• UUID : STREAM:8d8a51ca-bac7-4b72-9f04-7e9b23903711
• SESS : 9e2df77b-ddd3-42b8-956d-a1553a08444c
• MODIF : Mon Apr 08 2019 08:51:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
• TAGS : @tunnel

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[docelmo]

@Monocle hey were good. So turns out pfSense’s DNS server sucks… It was having issues resolving your hostname. I changed it to google’s DNS and its working perfectly.

[Monocle]

@docelmo

It may be that PFSense has DNS REBINDING protection enabled by default.
I had to add a special exclusion in my PFSense router to allow the domain *.mproxy.io to work.

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

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In PFSense under :: Services > DNS Forwarder, I added this custom config option: