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  1. Its disappointing to see no responses on this. I have been debating the same thing. The colorvu technology seems nice but motion seems to blur the colorvu image and the 8mp with IR seems to be pretty sharp at night despite black and white. I feel as though sacrificing daytime mp quality and nighttime motion is not worth color at night time. Whats everyones thoughts?


  2. So I bricked my cameras but saved them and now I want to try to upgrade them again lol. I have version V5.2.5 141201 and my serial numbers do have CH in them for 2 of my cameras. Now I know the risk of chinese cameras with the 4 hours of my life I lost. From reading peoples horror stories I am curious what is the correct way to upgrade these cameras? Also, how bad is this security update from 5.2.5 to 5.3?


  3. Is anyone worried that the majority of products on Aliexpress are counterfeit?

     

    I too was looking on Aliexpress for some DAHUA PTZ's.

     

    I have purchased motorola parts that looked 99% like OEM Motorola. I was very surprised how China has mastered the counterfeit world of products.

     

    Lol its funny some counterfeit might be better then geniune.


  4. Not on the side, I do it professionally.

     

    Thats awesome. Do you own your own company or work under someone ? I was just learning this stuff as a hobby but it could definately be an awesome business. Its just been hard to find a constant flow of customers so far. I have been listing on CL but thats been somewhat slow and my website looks terrible . If I am going to make this work I need to put in more effort! I figure my day job would finance it as a weekend job and hopefully build it from there.


  5. Calvert County is the only place in Maryland that requires a license. There is an overall Security Technician

    s license that is issued by the state, but it is NOT required to perform this type of work.

     

    So an eletrician isnt even needed to wire walls with ethernet which you will run POE? I mean my brother in laws dad does this kind of work so I was going to use him anyway but I figured that w as required.

     

    THanks again for the answer.

     

    So that would be your father in law

     

    No, my sisters husbands dad hah!


  6. Segregate your cameras on a separate network segment. User strong passwords. Access your cameras on a nonstandard port, say 42345. Use your firewall to close all other ports and you will be more than reasonably secure.

     

    I am not worried about the security of the cameras, I am having trouble accessing them at work because I cannot download anything to the computer, hence the reason I wanted the feed to go to a website that provides feed without tools needed. I think the RTSP to RTMP server idea would work but integrating that with 1and1 might be difficult for me. I am interested in this FTP idea tho.

    http://www.ivideon.com

    Will probably work for you

    I am definately going to give that a try . Seems like a great idea. So I dont even have to open any ports because this ivideon account is linked to the LAN as long as computer is on with ivideon server right? Thank you !!!


  7. Segregate your cameras on a separate network segment. User strong passwords. Access your cameras on a nonstandard port, say 42345. Use your firewall to close all other ports and you will be more than reasonably secure.

     

    I am not worried about the security of the cameras, I am having trouble accessing them at work because I cannot download anything to the computer, hence the reason I wanted the feed to go to a website that provides feed without tools needed. I think the RTSP to RTMP server idea would work but integrating that with 1and1 might be difficult for me. I am interested in this FTP idea tho.


  8. Yea i was thinking about the snapshot idea. Would you know of any way to continuously take snapshots and load them into a website?

     

    I don't have Hikvision but my cosiderably cheaper camera has FTP upload built into firmware.

     

    Hikviison has ftp as well. What solution are you referring to for ftp? Linking that to website ? I just want to be able to view from work computers . I would not be able to install a ftp client on the computer at work . Plus not sure how live streaming works from ftp given I have only ever used filezilla server and client.


  9. If you cannot install anything on your computer your options are very limited. At least you'd need to install VLC player and use its ActiveX component to watch RTSP feed in web broswer.

     

    You could set up a RTMP server the use flash to watch video, but this requires RTSP->RTMP server which you probably cannot run on a commercial web site.

     

    You are probably left with setting up your camera or DVR software to periodically upload snapshots/clips to your web server then watch those in the browser.

     

    Yea i was thinking about the snapshot idea. Would you know of any way to continuously take snapshots and load them into a website?


  10. Hello Everyone and thanks for your help! I have 2 hikvision IP cameras on my network which work great. However I recently purchased a 99 cents a month account for 1and1 own my first website !! I used 1and1 because I hate the security vulnerabilties of running the web server from my house. SO what I was curious about , was if it is possible to stream my ip camera to my website . The catch is at work I cannot download and install anything to the browser or computer so the solution needs to work around that? The camera supports RTSP and I can open the ports for each protocol needed.

     

    I used blueiris web server locally and it generated a website which video did not need anything downloaded to view on even my tv's crappy crappy browser and ran perfectly. Is this same solution possible on a website hosted remotely? I am new to website development and this sort of networking so I come to you guys for some help!

     

    Phone app works great but id rather utilize the computer screens ha


  11. We're planning to purchase security cameras for our home next month and I'd like to ask few questions.

     

    1. What is the best type of security camera? ( wired, wireless or network cameras)

    2. What are the things that I need to consider before purchasing one for our home?

     

    Well for reliability and for clean methods of powering the cameras I use ip cameras with poe. You need to determine if u want a bullet or dome cameras etc. How many cameras will give total watts that u will need for poe injector. How much ethernet cabling. If u dont want to run ethernet all through ur house u could use direct burial ethernet cable and run outside to where room where router is. Also network bandwidth is important if u r installing a lot of high mp cameras so take that into consideration. What will u record to. This can be a computer or nas or nvr. These will definately hel Pl get u started!


  12. Calvert County is the only place in Maryland that requires a license. There is an overall Security Technician

    s license that is issued by the state, but it is NOT required to perform this type of work.

     

    So an eletrician isnt even needed to wire walls with ethernet which you will run POE? I mean my brother in laws dad does this kind of work so I was going to use him anyway but I figured that w as required.

     

    THanks again for the answer.


  13. Your Best best is to call them and ask them about it. If anybody knows its them Also make sure you call the Fire Marshall and ask them, they can fine you BIG time and Shut You down operating without license.

     

    Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing

    State Board of Master Electricians

    500 N Calvert St, Room 302

    Baltimore, MD 21202-3651

    (410) 230-6163

    Fax (410) 333-6314

     

     

    Thanks for the reply adelmo01. Funny thing is I work for the state haha, but for a unrelated division located right down the street from you on St. Paul! Do you know which state agency in particular I would most likely need to contact for such matters?I will definately ask the fire marshall to see what exactly is required for installing this type of wiring through houses.


  14. Hey I was wondering if the state of maryland required a license to install cameras in other peoples homes and businesses? I cant seem to find anything online thats specific enough. I figure usibg poe required using a licensed electrician to run the cables just to be safe but even then yhats overkill with how small the watts is of the injectors I woulf be using. Anyway thanks in advance as usual


  15. Yea I dont really see a reason why 2 bulbs of six would work for a specific zoom setting? I mean it seems like a compllex setup for something like that to occur when the sensors and exposure settings can adjust automatically or manually. You should definately get your money back and never buy for that place again haha, I never hear good things about that site for some reason .


  16. I am glad to see your system actually helped someone , so nice job! This side of technology is becoming more retail everyday so now everyone can afford a cctv solution of their own and even help others afford them.If you dont mind me asking, after the 12 or so jobs you have done, what is your go to dome and bullet camera you use? Also, what was your lighting solution did you go with for nighttime at the church?

     

    Welcome to the forum by the way !


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    Thanks boogie.

    DO you know if buying extra IR illuminators and place outside the dome, if it helps to remove IR glare? For instance, like I was saying when the flood like comes on and I keep it on night mode, the IR glare completly disappears and looks great. I was wondering if this same effecft would happen if I IR flood lights or would there still be IR glare form the dome. Sorry if what I am saying is confusing, I can take some before and after pics when I get a chance to explain this .


  18. Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to disable IR bulbs but keep the IR mode on for the hikvision firmware or the hikvision ds-2cd2132-i camera itself? I have a ton of IR glare which is really bad . When my spot light comes on the IR looks great but when its just the IR bulbs and no spot light there is so much glare you cant even see.


  19. Then use VPN...or dont port forward the camera, or dont be so paranoid

     

    I am going to set up a vpn eventually but I waiting to build freenas for that and to store video! I dont want to disable or delete admin , just uncheck the remote privileges (their all grayed out and checked)! Just curious tho , what benefits do I get from opening up a port to vpn server vs just forwarding to camera? Just more security options to keep people out?

     

    I have posted on here before about security in general and I think the majority said it was just paranoia so you hit the nail on the head haha


  20. I was wondering if anyone was ever able to figure out to change administrator settings. When you go in security and add users , the admin account has everything checked when you click modify. Their all greyed out , even for remote configuration. Is there anyway to change these remote settings. I dont want anyone or even myself to be able to change settings outside of the home but hikvision doesnt seem to agree haha.

     

    Any ideas?


  21. It is an option when dealing with dedicated NFS devices(like Linux Storage/Backup Servers) or high-performance NASes.

     

    FTP is a kind of an option, but the FTP storage/quota needs to be monitored due to the fact that the FTP protocol cannot report remaining disk space. Usually FTP is used for backup purposes.

     

    The two viable options are:

    -PC with dedicated software, but has it's drawbacks on energy efficiency, cost of monitoring simultaneous multiple HD/FullHD or upper cameras, software stability and the dependence on the reliability of the host OS

     

    -dedicated NVRs , but they do have the drawback of costs with storage, initial cost of the NVR, the lack of possibility to upgrade the hardware in time (although, I know there are NVRs at 600$ in US that will do 16 1080p/FullHD channels) and a single type use-model

     

    I am aware I could buy other solutions to do this but I was just curious about the dd wrt idea. seemed like a possible solution but I guess its not as feasible as I thought without having to manually delete stuff after a few weeks.


  22. Just wanted to say that:

    -if using NFS - the implementation in ddwrt is a little bit(or way more) slower than required by the camera

    -if using FTP - that is faster, but FTP lacks the ability of space estimations, thus the camera will write until the HDD is full and stop

     

    So nfs is not an option thus leaving only FTP? I mean I am thinking about purchasing the r7000 so I was hoping its ability to perform would help make this more liekly to work.

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