I wanted to provide an update regarding the 5Ghz implementation. Due to other pressing aspects demanding my attention, I had to postpone the implementation. However, I am now working on it.
Despite following all the steps mentioned by @craig, I haven’t been successful in getting it to work yet. My next course of action will be to attempt the setup with a different router. However, this might take some time.
Mean while, I’m also working in a more direct way to connect the Z1 to Unity, maybe I will focus in the VLC-Unity or some other unity plugin.
Hi, I’m trying to apply the second method which involve the RTSP connection but I can’t seem to get it to work. My guess is that my URL is wrong. Do you see anything wrong with my URL?rtsp://THETAYN34119099.OSC:HuaxiaWang@192.168.1.5:8554/live?resolution=1920x960.
For user, I put the SSID of my Ricoh Theta Z1. For Password, I put the password I gave my Ricoh Theta Z1. Lastly, for camIP, I put the IP address of my Ricoh Theta Z1 which I found by using my IPhone’s settings app which allows you to see the IP address of a wi-fi network. I also never connected the Z1 via CL (Client Mode I think?) which I’m guessing is also where I could be going wrong as I don’t know how to connect to CL or what CL is? If you could explain if there’s anything you see wrong in my URL and how to connect the Z1 via CL as well as what CL stands for, it would be greatly appreciated.
I’m running the dns-sd -G v4 THETAYN34119099.OSC.local command in my command terminal to find the IP address of my Ricoh Theta Z1 but it returns nothing. Is the format of my hostname wrong? Also what do I have to do with my Ricoh Theta Z1 so it’s detectable for the command?
I think I was able to find the IP address through connecting the camera to the Ricoh app on my phone but the camera feed still doesn’t connect to OBS. I have the Ricoh Theta Z1 set to client mode and started the RTSP streaming plug in mode on the camera. Then I started OBS and input the link on my media source in the following screenshot. Nothing shows up. Is there anything else I’m supposed to be doing to get it connect to OBS or is there anything you see wrong in my process?
@Manuel_Couto See the section on configuration of your router to specific channels. The channel specification may be the same on V and Z1
Troubleshooting
5 GHz Access Point
If you have a 5GHz WiFi router, the THETA V may not connect to it reliably. You need to limit the channels to 36, 40, 44, or 48. The THETA V complies to the 5GHz standard W52（IEEE 802.11a/n/ac that works with channels 36/40/44/48.
Many 5 GHz routers comply to W58 standard, which allows dynamic channel allocation to include 149/153/157/161.
If your router is using those channels, the THETA V will not connect in client mode. Please refer to this Wikipedia article on WLAN channels.
Yes, I have my z1 in client mode. The following picture is of my camera in CL mode and running the RTSP plug in. Also are you saying that I need to use the IP address of my router and not my Ricoh Theta Z1 for the URL?
You have to use the IP address of the Z1. It is odd that it is 192.168.1.1 (Z1 IP). Do you have access to the router? Can you log into the router and confirm the IP address? I suspect that the IP address is not 192.168.1.1. When you confirmed the IP address with your phone using the mobile app, was the mobile app in client mode?
as a test, does this work?
Testing IP access with Insomnia. replace the serial number with the serial number of your camera. Replace the IP address with the IP address assigned to your camera.
Thank you, I successfully found the new IP address of my Ricoh Theta Z1 by setting my phone and the Z1 to client mode and was able to use this IP address to fix the URL for OBS. It streams successfully but with around 2 seconds of delay. Any advice on how to improve this delay?
Did you use a low latency 5ghz WiFi router placed close to you? There can be significant differences also depending how far are your devices from the WiFi router. Both camera and PC with OBS…
Now that I was able to do more tests, I can confirm that there are lot of aspect. Latency depends on bandwidth/bitrate too, so when video bitrate is lower, latency was lower too. During test we did there bandwidth and quality was lower. When I do a full 4 resolution, good quality stream latency is closer to 2 second end to end.
Now when I measured this latency on a WiFi 5 protocol 5ghz local network, I measured 800-900ms latency using 4k resolution and h.265 encoding when streaming to OBS Studio as Media Source.
Is this when the Z1 and the the computer running OBS Studio are in the same room? I wonder if the virtual cam of OBS adds additional latency when it gets to Unity? When I did the test with Unity, I did not check for latency.
