bradyboyy88

I think there's some confusion here.

 

You wouldn't review the raw files from the hard disk - you would use the Hikvision camera interface which shows you all motion recorded events in a user friendly way.

 

Using this router is exactly the same as any other NAS device.

That is what I was referring too. Just using the dd wrt loaded router as a NAS/storage device. The software side of viewing I would use the computer and load that network drive if possible into whatever software I was using.

Have you ever used a NAS? Do you install SAMBA onto the external drive or is that in the configuration device which in this is the router? This will be a first for me as I have neve rused a NAS before. Thanks

But how about reviewing records? It becomes a PITA... No multichannel support, no motion-based event search... You'll get hundreds of hours of recordings with no way to manage them. Where's the catch?

The catch is how simplistic the idea is and how minimum of hardware there is lol. I mean the camera itself can record based on motion event I think. I havent toyed with it that much. It should be able to record all feeds tho. I know it would be a pain to have to go through everything but the NAS storage on dd wrt is accessible from any just like any other NAS. I mean for cheap people liike me its just a idea I was throwing out haha.

I do not know much about samba but after some googling it looks like its available for dd wrt. Do you load the NFS directly onto the router or load it into the external hard drive?

Hello everyone!!

I have been looking into a cheaper solution for recording video from my hikvision cameras. One solution which has been very interesting to me is to try and use a router flashed with DD wrt to record. If you flash a router with dd wrt , it allows you to connect a external usb harddrive to the router to act as a NAS. I was wondering if it is possible to have the video stream to it and record? Has anyone ever streamed a Hikvision camera to a NAS and if so how? COuld be a very power effcicient method to record and the less hardware the better!

I have a netgear router which I flashed but I cant seem to find it haha, in the meantime it would be nice to know if this is possible before I tear my house apart tryign to find it

I would definately recommend the hikvision camera line. Are you looking for dome or bullet?

No experience with those cams, but looking at the camera manual it sounds like if you set the Protocol to HTTP under Local Configuration>Live View Parameters menu then you will only need to forward the single HTTP port(default is port 80).

 

if the above does in fact work, then you can leave the cams set to default port 80, and use different outside port which directs to the correct 'inside' port and 'inside' ip address. So you would then connect by opening a web browser and navigating to or whatever...

 

According to manual the e3000 router has configuration options for external port and internal port, so this should work. Page 34:

http://downloads.linksys.com/downloads/userguide/Linksys_E3000_UG_USA_V10_NC-WEB.pdf

Sorry for never responding. Thank you and you were right! I have set up the external ports as non standard and kept the internal as the usual!

I have now learned that corrupt firmware sucks haha. But thankfully do to the help of members on the forum I was able to flash new firmware using tftp. It saved my camera which could not be accessed via web browser , SADP, or ivms. Thanks again everyone for the help

If the fisheye camera actually works as well as the theory (one camera watches entire room), then there are big demands for it (less cameras to buy, less labor, onto the next job). Geovision has been pretty successful with their fisheye camera.

Geovision has the virtual PTZ , does the hikvision version support that?

I teamviewered into my girlfriends computer real quick and ran SADP and the camera shows up intermittantly for a few seconds.I also pinged camera and it responded to all 4 packets sent regardless of if SADP showed it . So i had her check the poe switch and change ethernet port to a camera that is working and still comes up intermitantly. SO i isntalled ivms 4200 on her computer and wouldnt you know it made SADP did not detect any camera(even working working ones) lol , so i delete IVMS 4200 and SADP works again haha. All firewalls off too just to make sure it wasnt affecting it. I also ran port scanner and for some reason the camera when it was intermitantly off SADP, the port scanner couldnt find it but when it came back on then it would find it but it could only find TCP ports 21 and 23 open which are ftp! So what I am thinking is that maybe hikvision has some default setup which relies on those ports and arent effected by firmware for recovery hence the reason TFTP might work and where it gets its name from.

I posted this in antoher thread as well but in regards to using TFTP so hopefully this double post is not breaking any rules.

Thanks again for all your guys help!

Hi Brady, sent you the download link for the software i'm using NVMS7000, basically a re-skinned ivms4200.

Thanks again for that. I teamviewered into my girlfriends computer real quick and ran SADP and the camera shows up intermittantly for a few seconds.I also pinged camera and it responded to all 4 packets sent regardless of if SADP showed it . So i had her check the poe switch and change ethernet port to a camera that is working and still comes up intermitantly. SO i isntalled ivms 4200 on her computer and wouldnt you know it made SADP did not detect any camera(even working working ones) lol , so i delete IVMS 4200 and SADP works again haha. All firewalls off too just to make sure it wasnt affecting it. I also ran port scanner and for some reason the camera when it was intermitantly off SADP, the port scanner couldnt find it but when it came back on then it would find it but it could only find TCP ports 21 and 23 open which are ftp! So what I am thinking is that maybe hikvision has some default setup which relies on those ports and arent effected by firmware for recovery hence the reason TFTP might work and where it gets its name?

I am still down tho to let you take a look but it has to be through my laptop when i go over since my gf doesnt like having teamviewer on her laptop . I just cant think of anymore ideas so I am all ears !

Hi Brady,

 

I actually done it a few times too (changed http port and can't find it again) what you need to do is add the camera to your ivms4200 software (you only need server port and local IP address, which you can find from SADP) then change the http port if you go to Device management-->remote configuration-->Network

 

See the picture for what I mean~

(sorry i'm using another software but its like the same)

[attachment=0]Network setting.JPG[/attachment]

 

Hope it helps, PM me if you need to teamviewer or something and I'll walk you through it. As long as your SADP works it should be ok.

Hey thanks a lot for the suggestion. For some reason it does not show up in SADP but it does in IVMS 4200. The only problem is I cant seem to remote configure it in ivms 4200 because it says network error if i try (I can add the camera to devices but then cant do anythign with it). What program is it that you are using? Yea if I cant seem to get it to work I wouldnt mind letting you take a look via teamviewer and it would be greatly apreciated. I actually set these camears up for my gf dad and they were working great till I changed the http port like a dummy , so now I am feeling the pressure to fix it!

What port does TFTP use ? And does it need access to the webgui (which i dont have now)?

You might try loading firmware via TFTP. I've never done a Hikvision camera, so I can't say for sure whether or not it will reset the camera to factory settings, but it doesn't sound like you have much to lose. I can't post a link that you can click on, so you'll have to copy and past the following into your browser, but here is the URL for the TFTP tool and documentation on the Hikvision Europe server....

 

http://www.hikvisioneurope.com/portal/index.php?dir=Z%20OLD/Technical%20Materials/Special%20Tools/TFTP-Auto-Update/#

Thank you

I'm curious to see if anyone is able to use SADP after changing the http port (when i first set up the cameras I changed the http port something to soemthing close to 80 and SADP wouldnt connect to that camera but I could via LANIP:PORT#, so not sure why its not workign this time) .

 

Yes, SADP works even after changing the web port. But I have never used anything as high as 9821, I usually change it to 90, 800, or 8080.

I am guessin you dont want to try it out haha. If your were bored, do vm with windows 8.1 and turn router UPNP off and that is my exact scenerio lol

Well when i get off today my brother should be stopping by with an extra hikvision camera I bought which is same model. I plan on taking it apart and see if there is a reset switch hidden somewhere, but from what i read online there is no reset switch (amazon review said this and one other forum post guy swears he couldnt find one). I am going to teamviewer into my gf's network tonight hopefully so I can see if I can ping the camera and also run a port scanner to see if I am screwing up my number somewhere along the line.

 

I'm curious to see if anyone is able to use SADP after changing the http port (when i first set up the cameras I changed the http port something to soemthing close to 80 and SADP wouldnt connect to that camera but I could via LANIP:PORT#, so not sure why its not workign this time) .

Well when i get off today my brother should be stopping by with an extra hikvision camera I bought which is same model. I plan on taking it apart and see if there is a reset switch hidden somewhere, but from what i read online there is no reset switch (amazon review said this and one other forum post guy swears he couldnt find one). I am going to teamviewer into my gf network tonight also hopefully so I can see if I can ping the camera and also run a port scanner to see if I am screwing up my number somewhere along the line.

I'm curious to see if anyone is able to use SADP after changing the http port (when i first set up the cameras I changed the http port something to soemthing close to 80 and SADP wouldnt connect to that camera but I could via LANIP:PORT#, so not sure why its not workign this time) .

I wish I had though to that when i was home. I will be sure to do so when i get off around 5. If it does ping it , what would that mean? Does it mean i have a chance haha!

I do not have access to camera via webgui because I screwed up http port inside camera . So I was wondering if anyone has an idea on how to flash firmware without access to the webgui. I have static ip set for camera which only shows up in ivms 4200 but with connection error. ANy way of directly plugging in ethernet cable to camera to do this type of flash?

Hmmm... Could it be that i turned of upnp a while back on the router ? Not sure what importance that has with this problem. I do not understand how jsut changing http port could break this camera.... GRRRRRR. Why would ivms show the camera as described above but not sadp?

Do you know of any software or a script I could run which will test every port in a google chrome url incase I am mistaken what it is? I am getting desperate here and am super nervious about this.

Or could I flash a new firmware on to hopefully just reset it to factory settings?

thanks again for all the help

I am just doing this inside the LAN, so would i even need to change the port on the router? I figure I only need to configure ports on router if I am trying to access outside the LAN via internet. I mean I do have ports open to the rtsp and sdk so my gf dad could use the ivms 4500 on his android phone. However, since I changed the http port, the hiddns is no longer connected for some reason so the android app cant connect either.

Aim it so the edge of the house on the bottom right side is out of the picture. That should clear it up considerably. Ideally you should even get the top of that light fixture out of the picture too. But just getting the edge of the house on the right should clear most of it up.

Just saw this message today, I will be sure to try this next weekend and see if it fixes it. Thanks

Use SADP (Search Active Devices Protocol software) from Hikvision to find the camera on your network and see what is the current port.

 

You probably have SADP on the CD that camera with your camera, or you can download it from Hikvision web site.

It doesnt show up on SADP . However, it does show up on the hikvision ivms 4200 software in the configuration setup only after a few seconds but it wont connect or let me do remote configuration (I feel like both softwares use the standard port 80 information for http to do some sort of configuration). In fact after I do try to connect to it via ivms configuration page it disappears from online cameras list and i have to restart program to get it to show up again. Do you have any other ideas on how I can connect in to get this stuff straightened out. I do not know why they would let me change http port if I wouldnt be able to connect afterwards. I mean I am 99% sure I set the http port to 9821 and figured just adding that port after colon in url would work. Now that its not working maybe I typed something else and am going crazy? I dont know what to do and am getting nervious cuz these are cameras I installed for my gf dad! Its the hikvision DS-2CD2132-I dome camera if that helps. I read there might not be a reset button so am I am guessing I am screwed now ? I mean the camera was working just fine and I changed that http port and then this all happens....

Thanks for the reply

Hi, I changed my http port to 9821 and now I cant access my camera . I type in the browser http://192.168.1.56:9821 but I still cant access the camera. What the heck am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Thanks for both of the replies. Yea I definately need to change the outside port. I couldnt find a setting to for external and internal port. The only thing I saw was forwarding port xxxx to whatever LAN ip address, hence I had set the port forward to as 8080 for sdk so I had to change the cameras to 8080 on the camera sdk , instead of the usual 8000. I will have to check again for this because someone else mentioned that to me. If you do it the way you say gb5102 can the ports on the camera themselves be the same as the factory settings? such as both cameras still have port 80,554,8000, 443 but the ports on the outside will just be assigned differently for each camera hence the router knows which device it goes to despite they have same internal port? Sorry If thats worded funny but let me know if you get what I am saying haha

As for the vlan I was thinking about loading dd wrt on to the router (which supposively can turn a cheasy 50 dollar router into a business class due to its interface) and going from there but my network knowledge is not as good as it should be so hopefully it will go smoothly lol.

So I looked at the dome cover and it was clean but I wiped it down again anyway and still looks like this. I am guessing this is IR glare that everyone talks about? Well now to try and improve it does anyone have any suggestions on lighting solutions. As you can see there is a lamp below it and one on the other side of the truck. What type of bulbs should I use? LED , regular lights, infrared bulbs, etc. Or would it just be better to put up a IR illuminator.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I currently installed 2 hikivision DS-2CD2132-I ip cameras on my home network which has a cisco e3000 router. I am trying to make the cameras accesible outside the network to a cell phone. From what I have read I need to forward ports 80, 554, 8200, and 8000. After more reading I have read about cameras being hacked which can threaten the entire network. So what I did was disable remote control capabilities and upnp. Now what I was hoping I could get help with is how to seperate my home network from my ip camera network without requiring additional hardware. Is there some way of doing this via NAT,different subnets, etc? If the cameras were every compromised I would want to make sure that that network cant compromise the one with all the computers on it.

Any helps would be awesome because despite I have heard of these ideas does not mean I am familiar and just simple googling doesnt seem to be helping me haha.

Thanks as usual!