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There will always be false positives, cameras at this price range are 2D not 3D, there is no depth perception. The area of pixels changing that are a person at 30ft are the same as the area of pixels of a bug at a couple of inches. The best you can do is tune down the false positives using sensitivity parameters on Motion Detection or change to Line Crossing and Intrusion zones. Dwell, linger, face and direction parameters help as well in the more expensive cameras. PIR input triggers help as well until that bat hovers in front of the PIR or next doors big dog runs across your yard.

What version of the camera firmware are you using, perhaps the bug is there and not in the VMS?

I use the 2.3.0.4 client with cameras on v5.2.0 firmware recording to a QNAP NAS and the camera logs show more events but as these overlap they appear as the same number of red playable events on the playback interface of the cameras and the iVMS 2.3.0.4 client.

Yes, I thought of that. One thing is if I use a separate IR illuminator the camera still needs to be in IR mode. Is there a way to have the camera in IR mode but with the IR lamp off so it doesn't illuminate the floaters yes I had a lot of bug problems with my 2332's & 2132's and v5.2.0. I used the Expert Mode in the Motion Detection page and got rid of the problem. Just set the Night Proportion of... value to a larger number and hey presto the number of false alarms have dropped, I can even tune out next doors cat which may not be a real bug but has been bugging me!

With intrusion emails that say "Thar she blows, Captain!"

You must be kidding. You do not carefully read the above, I only showed that it is possible and it's easy! You have not, you have only showed images that are easily created with any photo editing tools, you could have made it look like you had changed it to Klingon if you wished. The reality is you have announced to everyone that you can do something that they cannot but have not provided valid evidence so they do not believe you.

To stop the questioning and disbelief perhaps you could share the technical details of what you did to change the language from Chinese to Russian in 5.2.5.

That looks like a Swann Cloud HD apart from the black front part of the body. Swann have a few others that are similar. They run a slightly modified firmware that has a lot of issues.

I have a couple of these, the camera is a re-badged Hik 2DC2012 with WiFi, mic and alarm in, the camera suffers from all the firmware problems that come with the earlier versions of the Hik's plus the firmware has been crippled, things such as stored video playback doesn't work. If the camera gets network stressed, or the upload of a clip to the network fails then the process that runs everything crashes, and gets restarted but also resets the time zone to somewhere in the Pacific, does something to the IR cut filter and screws up the current connection to Swann's Cloud. That screw up can also remove the token used for the cloud and the only option is to re-connect the camera to the cloud. Top Tip: use a tablet to show the QR code to the camera otherwise, it needs a big screen to read the code well. The other problem is the Cloud website, it forgets to talk to the camera, forgets its token for the camera, is often down for maintenance, has a load of missing functionality such as the inability to delete clips between a time range or for a whole camera, or search by date and camera. If the Clould forgets the camera for to long then the token seems to get out of date and the camera will then never connect again until you reset it and then re-connect it.

Problem is that if the Hik vision firmware upgrade bricks the camera there is no OEM firmware to get back to when you have a dead camera. I was considering using FMK to create an image but I am currently thinking about selectively copying and replacing the main binaries individually in camera with versions stripped out of Hik's firmware. If it goes wrong then it should leave me with a brain damaged cam that still has telnet and BusyBox so I could ftp the binaries back in. Does anyone have an exploded davinci.dav in Dropbox or similar that I could play with rather than me going through the pain of setting up a system just for FMK? Write down the current version of your firmware, and download it from the hikvision ftp site. If upgrade fails you have a copy of the old firmware. I think you must have misunderstood me, the camera I have is a Hikvison manufactured Swann that is similar to the Hik 2012-I and there is no Swann OEM firmware.

Problem is that if the Hik vision firmware upgrade bricks the camera there is no OEM firmware to get back to when you have a dead camera. I was considering using FMK to create an image but I am currently thinking about selectively copying and replacing the main binaries individually in camera with versions stripped out of Hik's firmware. If it goes wrong then it should leave me with a brain damaged cam that still has telnet and BusyBox so I could ftp the binaries back in. Does anyone have an exploded davinci.dav in Dropbox or similar that I could play with rather than me going through the pain of setting up a system just for FMK?

Assuming your network switch at the shack is 100mbps then your problem is bandwidth on the wireless link. Wireless network equipment is really designed for one direction data streams, the buffers soon fill up and the problem only gets worse as more devices are added, made worse again when another local wireless station uses the same spectrum.

Why do you need it? Everything has been done for a long time: all hikvision firmware disassembled and assembled Is there a good write up on this preferably on that also describes the boot/load process?

Unlike coaxial cable Cat 5 has each strand separately insulated, there is no core strand that could cut through the insulator to the outer strands, you can tie cat5 in knots and it does not make a difference. You can put two devices a couple of feet apart and use a 100m drum of cat5 set between them and you would see no difference in bit rate as each of the four pairs are twisted to make sure that stray signals do not get electromagnetically created. If it is working then the Ethernet chips that drive the ports will only downgrade the connection to 10Mbps if you have badly terminated connectors or have a poor socket connection before they stop working completely and that is enough for 2 1080P cameras at 30fps.

If you want to scan for IP's then use http://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/ It's free and does the job.