Saturday 15 June 2019

View HikVision cameras in VLC player

The camera feed is located at:

rtsp://<ipaddress>:554/ch1/main/av_stream

Create the following registry file and execute it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rtsp]
@="Real Time Streaming Protocol"

"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rtsp\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rtsp\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rtsp\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\VideoLan\\VLC\\vlc.exe\"%1"

Thursday 13 June 2019

Android 9 breaks audio volume sync on JVC HA-S30BT bluetooth headphones

On Android 8 the media volume controls adjust the volume played back by the headset.
After applying the upgrade to Android 9 the controls seemed sporadic: sometimes the handset volume controls would adjust the headphones, sometimes it would not.

If you go into the Settings > Connections > Bluetooth > ... > Advanced the "Media Volume Sync" setting was greyed out and it said underneath "Not supported by the connected Bluetooth device".

This post seemed to fix it. By renaming the headphones to ABS-DO-ENABLE and disconnecting and reconnecting the handset volume then controlled the bluetooth headphone volume.

Once you've got it working, renaming it back seems to continue to work.