How to Add Reolink Cameras to Blue Iris

There are 3 methods to add Reolink cameras to Blue Iris.

Here is a video for your reference: 

Before getting started, login to your device on the Reolink App/Client to open the relevant ports.

Reolink App: go to Device Settings > Network > Advanced to open relevant ports for the device.

Reolink Client: go to Device Settings > Network > Advanced > Server settings to open relevant ports for the device. After opening the ports, do not forget to Save your configurations.

Note: You can also open the ports via Reolink NVRs or via the web browser, see: How to Configure Reolink Ports Settings.

Method 1: Add the camera via ONVIF Protocol Manually

Step 1. Launch Blue Iris, right-click to choose Add New Camera, and click OK to add a camera in LAN

Step 2. Confirm Onvif protocol is selected by default for Make Setting. Enter the camera IP address and password, and make sure the RTSP and ONVIF port numbers are the same as your camera’s, click OK. You can live view the camera on Blue Iris now.

Method 2: Add the camera via Reolink protocol

Step 1: Launch Blue Iris, right-click to choose Add New Camera, and click OK to add a camera in LAN

Step 2: Choose Reolink as a protocol for the Make setting. Enter the camera IP address and password. Make sure the RTSP and ONVIF port numbers are the same as your camera’s. Type your camera’s username (admin by default) and password in the URL, click OK. You can live view the camera on Blue Iris now.

Note: when you use Reolink protocol to add a camera, please pay attention to the following points.

a. Cameras with a resolution of 8MP and above can only use the sub-stream to live view, because when you use the Reolink protocol to add a camera, you actually use the RTMP protocol, while RTMP does not support the h.265.
b. If you can’t find the corresponding model for Model settings, just use the first default *model, no modification is required, and the model is not required to be correct.

c. When adding cameras on different channels from the NVR, the steps are the same as adding a single camera, just repeat the same steps to add with the same IP (the IP address of the NVR) address, and only need to pay attention to modifying the channel field of the URL. The channel starting from 0 in the URL is counted as the first channel on the NVR. For example, if you add a camera with channel 2, then the channel number should be changed to 1 in the URL.

Method 3: Scan the camera in LAN via ONVIF Protocol

Step 1: Launch Blue Iris, right-click to choose Add New Camera, and click OK to add a camera in LAN

Step 2: Click Find/inspect to search the camera, select the camera and click OK.

Step 3: After searching is done, click Close.

Step 4: Enter the camera's password, click OK. You can live view the camera on Blue Iris now.