I am still new to AREDN. I have a small mesh with 2 Ubiquiti NanoStation Loco 2 and 2 NanoBridge 5G22 with an EdgeSwitch 5xp up and running. VLAN 1,2,10 and 20. A laptop connected via VLAN 10 to a NS2, a UVC G3 Flex via VLAN 20 to a NB5, and the two radios connected via VLAN 2. I can connect from the laptop to any of the nodes via mesh. I get pictures from the camera on the laptop, but only at about 1 to 2 pps. It should be possible to get realtime video (25 or 30 pps) on the laptop. Do I have to set up a service on the NB5 node or what? I have tried to put the rtsp link in the address field of VLC, but no picture. The laptop is running Ubuntu 19.10 with Firefox and VLC.
Hans-Petter LA9UI
Hans-Petter LA9UI
Hans-Petter, check the distance settings. If you are using the nightly build version, where auto distance is the default, it is not very good performance on the bench and very short distances. Change distance settings to the minimum for better performance regardless of firmware version.
Auto Distance in the nightly build works very well and is optimum for P2P links, I saw 30%+ iperf improvement on a 40 mi link. With many neighbors of a wide variety of distance, it may be better or worse than a static setting. On the bench auto distance is terrible...
I routinely do many HD streams over the mesh and many hops. I generally reduce video quality to 15fps and 1Mbps or less so that I can do many streams at once and have a video window of all the mountain top cams in SoCal.
Joe
Hans-Petter
Joe AE6XE
Hans-Petter LA9UI
I have updated the firmware to the 4.18.37 version. The camera now works much better; I can watch all 3 streams, but it seems that it is more to be done with the firmware.