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The red led only blinks when configuring the camera. The IR leds are 940nm. The camera will be as stealth as you are able to hide it. There is no flash.

It will. The HD on DVRs is for storing the recordings, all the OS is embedded on the device. A DVR will function even without a HD installed (some units allow recording on a networked HD, you might want to use it just as an encoder without doing recordings, etc).

Hint 2: search on dx.com "hunting camera" Hint 3: http://dx.com/es/p/s-105-2-0-lcd-5-0-mp-waterproof-ir-night-vision-outdoor-hunting-camera-camouflage-grey-242814

Hint: google "hunting camera"

Image quality on that video looks great. I wouldn't say "poor image quality", but more like poor camera placement. I can only see one video, and not three.

Here are some options. - Take out the drive and insert a new drive. When you have everything you want recorded, then worry about exporting the files. - Export over network. Can you access the DVR from some software or web browser? Use it to download the recordings. - Buy a decent DVR, and make sure it does what you need before you get it.

Check out this thread: viewtopic.php?f=56&t=39628

Oh, my bad! I was not understanding you. I thought you said you could not playback from mobile unless you record the substream. You can, but of course you will playback the main stream! If you want to playback the sub stream, yes, you must record it.

Nope. I just tested it, and I can playback files from my mobile, and I am not recording the substream.

You do not need anything at all. The 19" units from Hikvision always come with their "ears" in case you deploy them on a rack. I do not know what would be the name of the things, but something like this...

The server address repends on the provider you are using. For dyndns.org it used to be members.dyndns.org. From what I see on no-ip (which I have never used), it is dynupdate.no-ip.com (from http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/setting-up-dynamic-dns-updates-on-a-d-link-di-604-router/ ) Everything else looks about right.

Well, you are watching video... You expect it not to use data? Just check out what is the bitrate on your extra stream, and you can know from there the bandwidth it will use when watching it. If you want to use less data, lower the bitrate, resolution, etc. on the extra stream. I think that is not a problem. I only record the main stream, when I watch from gDMSS I can choose which stream to watch. When I do playback, I only get to see the main stream (it doesn't even ask, but that is the only stream I have recordings anyway).

Hey, that is awesome! I did not even know there were magnetic sensors with NO/NC connectors. Must find them, thanks for that pic!

Did you try connecting them to a computer to see if you can watch the recordings there?

My two cents. - Motion detection did not work at all with any cameras I tried. - I did get the unit recording on a 32Gb USB stick. It only gave me like 20-22Gb available for whatever reason. - It must use a propietary file system, since inserting the USB stick on a computer only gave me the format prompt. That means that if I want to play back the recordings on a computer, first I need to export them to another USB stick, eSATA device, etc. (there are only two USB ports, so it would not be fun to connect two USB sticks and a mouse at the same time). - Web interface was in chinese, so I could not try anything at all. This is not yet a mature product. It can, and has to get a lot better. It is cool for the small size, recording on USB stick, etc. But so far as I said on my other post, the best usage I see for it is as a 4ch 1080p decoder, so you can view 4 cameras easily on any TV without the need of a computer.

Cheers. I've been looking at the code for the DVR control app as I don't have one to test. Looks like the gen code is indeed different, but I think I can figure it out without debugging on the device. I'll send a code based on the IPcam algo which should be wrong and a code based on what i think the DVR app expects. We'll see if it works The serial I sent you belongs to a IPC. If you also need DVR, NVR, other IPCs, let me know.

No problem on sending a serial, you have a PM. I will check if the code is right.

All current Hikvision and Dahua units support IE, Firefox, Chrome... What I can not tell you for sure is if they also support Linux.

Ooops, nevermind... iVMS-4200 is for computer. If you are using mobile/tablet, you will be using iVMS-4500 (which also does not need to know any ports). I would do so. But I always have the same ports outside (router) and inside (DVR/NVR/cam), so I can not tell you if it doesn't work with hkDDNS when they are not the same. But I do know someone else was also reporting issues. But again; it would be smarter to first make sure that it does work connecting direct to your public IP; and then bother about hkDDNS.

Firmware version V2.3.3 build 130603 Encoding verison V1.0 build 130507

You do not specify any port on iVMS-4200 if you are using HiDDNS. Install the latest iVMS-4200 if you do not have it yet. On older iVMS-4200 versions I think you just had to leave the port at 80. Your Hikvision device will tell the server the ports that it is using, and the server will tell iVMS the ports to use. You do need to specify the web port when you et up your device on hikvisioneurope.net, but only if you are using a different external and internal port (like, if your external 11080 port is forwarded to the 80 port on the camera). Edit: Keep in mind that HkDDNS (or HiDDNS) is not just a normal DDNS; it does more things than just redirect a domain to an IP.

I do have it there... I see that mine are by default at 704x576 (which is the substream on my cameras), but I also have the option "Auto". No idea on what "Auto" does.

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I think so, but I haven't played with the options for a while. Also: Camera settings -> Snapshot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-SDI