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Hi,

I have bought a Reolink ip-camera and this is connected to my 2.4ghz wifi network.
I can look at the feed using the Reolink app on my phone and the Reolink windows program.

When i try to add it to Home Assistant the problems start.

The integration is found so Home Assistant knows the camera is on the network.
When i try to connect it asks for following info: Username, Password, Host, Port and the option to use HTTPS.

Username and pasword are setup in the app on installation.
The problem seems to be the Host and Port.

I have the correct ip-adress ( autofilled by Homeassistant and confirmed in router ).
The port i have inserted in the Reolink windows program and is known aswell.

The error i keep getting is " Failed to connect, check the IP address of the camera ".

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?

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I don’t usually recommend vid tutorials but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqIoc0EKQTI

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Thank you for the reply.
I learned a lot about the camera and settings.

I did not find what i need in the video.

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Ok, what ports are open on the camera?

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I get the same issue. Have you found a solution to this?

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I’m having The same issue as people above. Has anyone found a solution yet? Thanks in advance

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What ports are open on the camera?

nmap -p 0-65535 ip-address-of-camera

Real simple, yet no one responds.

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Hi there. If this is what im thinking it is, this will be amazing. What i think it is, is that you type that in somewhere and it will give you the exact port that the camera is using. If im right. Where do you type this in to get the port number?

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Any computer running Linux. Including the advanced ssh & web terminal page (everyone should install that!)

Here is a sample output

nmap -p0-65535 192.168.20.33
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-04-25 17:35 NZST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.20.33
Host is up (0.029s latency).
Not shown: 65531 closed ports
PORT    STATE SERVICE
21/tcp  open  ftp
22/tcp  open  ssh
80/tcp  open  http
443/tcp open  https
554/tcp open  rtsp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 10.21 seconds
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I tried it in terminal on my Mac mini but only got this reply.
zsh: command not found: nmap

is terminal the wrong place to type it?

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Is this for a Reolink camera and especially a newer camera?

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no its a TMT camera (Chinese mall special)

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Ah, ok.

So, to install nmap on your Mac Mini, you’ll need to either install nmap this way: Apple Mac OS X | Nmap Network Scanning or using Homebrew (personally, I would go the Homebrew route).

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awesome. thank you. installed it but now I have to find how to start using it

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As @nickrout posted: nmap -p 0-65535 ip-address-of-camera

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still not working in terminal

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Which method did you use to install it? What is the output of which nmap?

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the clipboard and pasted it in the terminal and it started installing

output is the same.zsh: command not found: nmap

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I aslo had a look at all the build in commands and there is no nmap command

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ok I finally got it but it doesn’t look the same as yours

yours show ssh, https,rtsp

Host is up (1.0s latency).
Not shown: 65530 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT STATE SERVICE
0/tcp filtered unknown
21/tcp open ftp
23/tcp open telnet
80/tcp open http
8888/tcp open sun-answerbook
30000/tcp open ndmps