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I was positive; but not any more http://www.hikvision.com/en/products_show.asp?id=7326 These models used to be 2048x1536@12fps or 1920x1080@25fps, but now they are listed as 2048x1536@20fps or 1920x1080@25fps. Guess somewhere along the way they updated either the hardware or software, I did try one of my cameras, and when I change the resolution from 1920x1080 to 2048x1536, it does lower by itself the frame rate from 25fps to 20fps. Maybe the Hikvision driver on the Sinology software still has info that the cameras are 12fps, and it won't do any more, even if the camera is now able to do it?

Agree. I also get in Europe models with brown or color box, and they are all with CCWR serial. A brown box does not imply it is a chinese market camera, a retail box does not imply it is not.

I would try to give the cameras their original IP addresses, so they do get detected by the NVR. Maybe you had them with the NVR internal POE switch, and now you don't? You changed the network config? I would configure them like they were, and then try to remove them. Or; remove the working cameras (192.168.0.x). And try to edit the non working ones, and modify the IP address from 192.168.254.x to 192.168.0.x.

On the web interface: Restore - Reset all the parameters, except the IP parameters and user information, to the default settings Default - Restore all parameters to default settings. I think the second option should do it. I am quite sure it also can be done from the device.

The DS-2CD2032-I is a 3Mp@12fps camera or 2Mp@25fps camera. It can do 2048x1536@12fps or 1920x1080@25fps. So the 12fps limitation is on the camera specifications, not on your NAS. Even if you are recording at 20fps, I doubt you are geting any more than 12fps from the camera. Recording at 20fps you might be repeating frames and wasting HD storage...

Well... you are the one who purchased a chinese camera to save a bit. It had been hacked already to change it to english, and updating the firmware changed it back to chinese. You can install again a hacked firmware, or install one of the older firmwares that can be used in english even with the chinese cameras. You do not need to use a hex editor at all if you do it the right way. You can recover the camera with TFTP, I am sure it has been explained somewhere in the forum.

"Virtual servers" section is wrong; he is forwarding external ports 37777 and 37778 to internal port 80. Port triggering is not needed at all for accessing a LAn device from WAN.

Delete everything on the "virtual server" section; that is wrong, and you don't need to set it up if you are using DMZ. Delete everything on the "port triggering" section. That is also wrong. You can (and I would) disable UPnP. If you put the DVR IP on the DMZ, there is no need for UPnP. I would disable it on the router and DVR. On the DVR, you don not have DNS configured. You have 1.0.0.0/1.0.0.0. You can use Google's DNs servers, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 I would also change port 80 to something else (90, 800, etc).

You can use this, so no cutting needs to be done.

Both Hikvision and Dahua DVRs can do that. I am not sure if you can change the delay between switching cameras (the 3 seconds you want).

Use "Hikvision Tools" for that, it includes a "Disk Calculator" tool.

I would return them for a refund. Not nice to have to add a NTSC to PAL adapter in there (which also needs to be powered), plus BNC to RCA adapters. It is easy to assume that a US CCTV company will be carrying NTSC products. I wonder why they would be selling to countries that they use the PAL standard...

They are not interchangeable. The sensor inside the camera is either PAL or NTSC. Contact the supplier to send them back for a replacement. I also do find it quite strange that you would get NTSC cameras from Amazon.co.uk...

If you can run a UTP cable, you can use a USB over UTP extender. Something like this:

Lower the number of cameras. If they have 16 now, why go to 32? They could install like 20 or 24 if that gets the cost under 7K, and make the system grow in the future if/when needed.

The firmware has been changed to 5.1.0 so it will be in english. If you install the 5.1.6 firmware, you will get all the menus in english. There are plenty of threads on the forums about this; you can either hack the camera and manually install 5.1.6 or 5.2.0 firmware in english, or you can patch the camera to make it international, so it will accept any firmwares (check out cbx threads).

If you change the http port on your camera, you have to put it in the browser for accesing the camera... If your camera is: http://192.168.1.20 And you change the port to 90, then you will have to access the web interface with: http://192.168.1.20:90

Everything needs to be different. Like: Cam1 - Http 90 RTSP 1024 Data 8000 Cam2 - Http 91 RTSP 1025 Data 8001 http and https ports only need to be open/forwarded if you plan on accessing the devices with the web interface. If you are only going to use iVMS, you will be fine with RTSP and data ports.

Try to schedule recording on the NVR with "motion | alarm" (that would be, "motion or alarm"). That means that the NVR will record that channel when there is "motion" (video motion detection) or "alarm" (there is an alarm trigger on the device, which can be the integrated PIR, or the alarm input).

That has nothing to do with no-ip. DNS and DDNS are two completely different things. Look for the DDNS section.

Ah, ok. Then your problem is crappy cameras, and not finding an Android app. If your camera can not deliver, no Android app will solve that.

In their latest Android app, it lists this too and has a link to register for it. Yup, I did register, but so far I have been unable to know how this works. Will try to understand it, I guess it must be some kind of P2P?

Good news, thanks! I really want to see what that "cloud support" is about.

That's not going to work. iVMS-4200 is the free software from Hikvision to be used with Hikvision devices (free software, because you have already paid for their hardware). So it only works with Hikvision devices. I'd like to see someone tell me that I am wrong, but I do not think it can be done.

You need to open 4 ports, not just one. Web, RTSP, TCP and UDP port. By default they are 80, 554, 37777 and 37778. Web port is only needed if you want to access the web interface, but you would need to open the others.