Dahua IPC-HFW2100 SMTP working?

[pfcsabre 0]

Hey guys,

 

I recently bought the 1.3 bullet cam (HFW2100) and it's working incredibly nice with my Synology NAS.

What I want to do though is to only send a notification when a specific area has motion sensor triggered, so the plan is to use the motion sensor of the cam and send an e-mail notification. The problem is, I have tried connecting to TLS/SSL/no authentication with every configurable port (25/465/587), use direct ips instead of domain name and still it doesn't work (on the other hand, the e-mail alert of Synology is working perfectly).

 

So, has anyone used the e-mail notification of the cam and any tips to make it work? Here's the version of my firmware (maybe the problem is firmware related):

 

Device Type IPC-HFW2100

Software Version 2.100.0000.9.R, build : 2012-06-21

WEB Version 3.0.0.0

[rayt 0]

great knowing it works great with synology, i have 4 i plan to put on my ds1812+

hope you find a answer to your question, i am very interested in it when i get around to it as well.

[pfcsabre 0]

great knowing it works great with synology, i have 4 i plan to put on my ds1812+

hope you find a answer to your question, i am very interested in it when i get around to it as well.

 

Just make sure you connect via ONVIF. TCP/UDP/HTTP does not work, I guess "working great" is subjective

[buellwinkle 0]

From what I've seen on my blog, people don't set the DNS properly. Try setting it to Google which is 8.8.8.8. Without DNS setup, it won't be able to find your email server.

[pfcsabre 0]

From what I've seen on my blog, people don't set the DNS properly. Try setting it to Google which is 8.8.8.8. Without DNS setup, it won't be able to find your email server.

 

Hi buellwinkle,

 

That's only the case if I use e.g. "smtp.google.com", but if I use the ip address of smtp.google.com it should be working without the DNS.

In any case I already tried that (that's actually the default one configured in mine) and have tried some things from here:

 

www.videosec.com/DVRs-instructions/Email-Function.pdf

 

still doesn't work-- so I'm hoping some guys has one working properly and the only difference is hopefully the firmware.

[techwhizard 0]

Try your ISP mail SMTP server settings. I setup email alerts in 3200C dome model couple of days ago and both outlook.com and gmail smtp ports were blocked by my ISP. soon as i changed to my ISP's email server, it worked!

[buellwinkle 0]

It can't work without DNS. DNS is the service that maps IP addresses to domain name. Without DNS, you would have to enter your SMTP's server's IP address, not their domain name. If you don't like google's, go on your PC, open a command window if it's windows, or a terminal window if it's a Mac. Enter ipconfig /all on Windows or ifconfig -a on a Mac and see what the DNS server that you PC is using and use the same one.

[pfcsabre 0]

It can't work without DNS. DNS is the service that maps IP addresses to domain name. Without DNS, you would have to enter your SMTP's server's IP address, not their domain name. If you don't like google's, go on your PC, open a command window if it's windows, or a terminal window if it's a Mac. Enter ipconfig /all on Windows or ifconfig -a on a Mac and see what the DNS server that you PC is using and use the same one.

 

buellwinkle, I think you missed my reply:

 

That's only the case if I use e.g. "smtp.google.com", but if I use the ip address of smtp.google.com it should be working without the DNS.

 

@techwizard - I'll try that one next, I just have some trouble applying for one now (I never use my ISP e-mail, I almost always change ISPs after a year or so)

 

EDIT: finally got it working-- you have to save the settings first before sending an email test! The motion detection though is too sensitive even with the lowest setting, and it might be unusable for me. I will be try to tweak it later, the got to do some shopping first....