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If you only have analog cameras (which I guess you do, if all your cabling is BNC) replacing all the cabling with UTP will not make a difference at all on video quality. The only difference will be if you want to switch to IP cameras in the future; you will have done the job of replacing the cable already. But if you already have all cable in place, you can just leave it as it is, and replace the cable the day you want to go from analog to IP.

And you didn't take any pictures for us to see?

No clue, but what would make the most sense to me is that both the cameras and NVR have motion detection settings, and that they both would be independent. So you could even use different settings on both, like ones for recording, and maybe some other settings, sensitivity, areas, etc on the camera that would trigger different events. But with Dahua I have seen settings that change at the same time on both NVR and camera. You disable MD on the NVR? It gets disabled on the camera. You enable it? It gets enabled. I have only used two systems so far, so there is still a lot I need to test.

I have not used ONVIF too much, but I also had problems using motion detection. Dahua NVR, with 2 Dahua cameras, 2 Hikvision cameras, and 1 chinese brand camera. Video was perfect on all 5 of them, and the Dahua units worked great with MD. But I was completely unable to get any motion detection redordings on the chinese camera, and I didn't have an easy time geting the Hikvision cameras to work (I did get some MD working, but not as expected). I do think that the motion detection happens at the camera level, and that the NVR does not even bother analizing the video. But I am not sure. On Dahua cameras, you change the MD settings (area, sensitivity, etc) and they also get updated on the camera. With the other cameras, you change any settings on the NVR, and the camera doesn't care at all. But even if I activated MD on the channel, set up an area, sensitivity, etc on the NVR, while it worked fine with the Dahua units, it did nothing with the others.

At that price, even I am willing to give it a try... Just got 1pc for testing.

I am quite sure that is a Shenzhen Skybest H8516 DVR. Check to see if the back and inside of your unit matches this pictures: http://www.securame.com/grabador-dvr-skybest-h8516-16ch-video-16ch-audio-h264-lan-vga-hdmi-satax2-p-1106.html Good luck geting any help from them, you are going to need it. http://www.cn-dvr.com/en/

I do not see you anywhere forwarding the ports to your DVR IP... That is, you are showing us a screenshot were you tell your router to open the ports 8080, 34567, and 34599 on both TCP and UDP, that is fine. But were are you telling your router (192.168.1.254, I guess) to forward the connections that come on those ports to your DVR IP (192.168.1.72)? As SectorSecurity already said, if you want to test if it is working, fine, you need to test it from outside your network. Trying to access your public IP (http://xxx.xxx.55.134:8080) from inside your network will not work with most routers.

I have also had problems with Dahua and motion detection. I installed on a business not long ago a Dahua DVR1604HF-U (16ch analog, up to 16ch IP) with 4pc HDB3200C. I end up leaving the 4 cameras recording all time during work hours, because I was either losing too many events, or recording almost constantly. And today I was testing NVR3216 with 4pc HDW2100 and I felt I had the same problems; motion detection was missing too many events. Not related, but I also had 1pc analog DVR0404LF-AS with MD completely fucked up; it had a buggy firmware and MD could not be used at all, but they quickly solved it by sending me the firmware upgrade. I think there is still quite some work to be done on Dahua MD on IP systems.

Cool, nice job!

How about just puting a new HD on that DVR, formatting it, and then checking out what file system and structure it uses?

Looks nice, can this be bought online? If you mean the Cable mapper and tone generator kit. Absolutely, it can, both in UK and in the USA and Australia on ebay of all places. I searched for day for the best price, ended up paying about a few dollars more because I wanted the blue one rather than the red (as if it makes a difference ? ). This is the link to the re-listed product in Australian Dollars. I offered al but a few dollars less and was decided so I ended up paying the full price Yes I meant the cable mapper, thanks!!!

DVR remotes usually can be used for many DVRs, so before using it you have to tell the remote what unit to control. Like, you could have 5 DVRs from the same brand, and use just one remote ton control them all. Every DVR will have an id (000-999), so before you send commands, you have to tell the remote what unit you are sending the commands to. Check the manual that comes with the DVR, you will probably find info on how to use the remote.

Any decent DVR will have alarm inputs/outputs. Edit: Oh... If you want to record on the computer, you won't have it so easy. I would just use a DVR and save time.

Looks nice, can this be bought online?

So I updated the IPC-HFW2100 with the following version: Software Version 2.210.0001.0.R, build : 2013-05-17 WEB Version 3.2.1.105704 Now I can access both port 80 and 9988, like with the IPC-HDB3200C, but on both ports I get the same message that the IPC-HFW3200S gives me, that HTTP GET method not implemented... Maybe on newest firmwares this comes disabled by default (so that noone can get a screenshot of the camera without authentification) and there is some way to enable it?

Nice post tome9999. Just in case anyone is interested on the original article: http://publicrelations.uncc.edu/news-events/news-releases/study-provides-insights-habits-and-motivations-burglars

Nice info! So I did try this on 3 cameras, with different success. IPC-HDB3200C Software Version 2.103.0000.0.R, build : 2012-07-24 WEB Version 3.0.0.0 With this unit, I can access with no problems both URLs: http://192.168.1.25/onvif/media_service/snapshot http://192.168.1.25:9988/onvif/media_service/snapshot IPC-HFW2100 Software Version 2.100.0001.0.R, build : 2012-10-31 WEB Version 3.0.0.0 With this unit, I get a 404 error not found when I try with web port 80, but it does work fine on 9988: http://192.168.1.26:9988/onvif/media_service/snapshot IPC-HFW3200S (rebranded version) Software Version 2.103.0000.1.R, build : 2013-01-18 WEB Version 3.0.0.0 With this unit both URLs will give me the following error. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:tae="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/actionengine/wsdl" xmlns:xop="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/xop/include" xmlns:xmime5="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime" xmlns:ns2="http://www.placeholder.org/ver10/tmp/wsdl" xmlns:ns1="http://www.placeholder.org/ver10/tmp/schema" xmlns:tan="http://www.onvif.org/ver20/analytics/wsdl" xmlns:tmd="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/deviceIO/wsdl" xmlns:timg="http://www.onvif.org/ver20/imaging/wsdl" xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" xmlns:tns1="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/topics" xmlns:ter="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/error" xmlns:trt="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/media/wsdl" xmlns:tev="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/events/wsdl" xmlns:tptz="http://www.onvif.org/ver20/ptz/wsdl" xmlns:tds="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/device/wsdl" xmlns:wstop="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsn/t-1" xmlns:wsrf-bf="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrf/bf-2" xmlns:wsa5="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:wsnt="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsn/b-2" xmlns:xmime="http://tempuri.org/xmime.xsd" xmlns:tt="http://www.onvif.org/ver10/schema" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> -<SOAP-ENV:Body> -<SOAP-ENV:Fault> <faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Client</faultcode> <faultstring>HTTP GET method not implemented</faultstring> </SOAP-ENV:Fault> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> Strange that the newer camera will not allow this. Any ideas on how to do it? Would I need to update the firmware, or is there some hidden setting I can change?

MaxIcon, I will check out Blue Iris trial, but I would rather have a way to do it for free dexterash, I guess you mean something like the following thread. Looks nice, I will try it out. viewtopic.php?f=19&t=34017 Thanks!

I need to get a snapshot from a Dahua IPC-HFW3200S every x minutes. What would be the correct way to do it? I have checked PSS but I do not see any way to automate it; I can easily make a screenshot by hand, but I think there is no option to automate it. I also see the IPC has snapshot options, but I think that I would need to set up an FTP server. I have only used Dahua IPCs with NVR and hybrid DVRs, this is the first time I try to record from a computer. I think PSS is not the right program for this, which one should I be using? Thanks!

Check again your port forwarding on the router. Make sure you have all the needed ports, forwarded to the right IP, in both TCP and UDP (just in case). If UPnP can do it, you can do it manually too.

There is no reason why that should be happening; uPNP is just a way so that the port forwarding will happen "magically", but if it does work that way, forwarding the same ports by hand can be done too.

Current Hikvisions use 3 ports; web port, data port, RTSP port. Defaults are 80/8000/554. You need to have them all forwarded from your router to your DVR. Not sure why you first say 1025, and then you say 554. If you want to make sure it is not a router/DVR problem, try connecting from outside from a computer using Internet Explorer (you will need web port and RTSP port) and iVMS-4200 (you will need data port and RTSP port). If this works, then the problem is not with the DVR and connection. Now, I have seen problems with iPhones, and I have seen problems with iVMS-4500 on iPhones. There was one version that would not work when using mobile network, and it would work ok when the same iPhone was using wifi. It was solved upgrading the DVR firmware. There was a version on iVMS-4500 that would refuse to run on some versions of iOS, but would work fine on others. There was a version of iVMS-4500 for iPhone that was pulled from the App Store a day after it was up because it was not working at all, those who had installed it had to wait until a new version was up (since they could not downgrade). You can have issues, but if it is working from other Android devices and even from other iPhones, you can just wait until iVMS-4500 gets updated, you can find the latest firmware for your DVR, or you can switch mobiles. If those are not the same exact DVR with the same exact firmware, I can see that happening.

Are you using the free version of Vitamin D? It is limited to 320x240 resolution, if you want higher resolutions you have to purchase the program. If you can connect with RTSP to your camera let's say from VLC and see the main stream, then it surely is not a problem with the camera (I can connect with no problems and see the video streams at 1920x1080).

No, I didn't say it should work. I do not know what USB stick you have, so I can not tell you if it is compatible with MR3020. It is not easy to configure, you will have to take care of port forwarding, seting up a dynamic DNS domain, etc. I said it can be done, but it is not so easy to setup. If you need to ask if a Samsung Wave will do the job, I would say that you probably be better with help from someone to set this up for you. I hope that if you are asking for this is because you can not get a fixed internet connection at your house. If you do have it, that is the route you should go.

Any camera with IR will give you false positives; any camera outdoors will give you false positives; and any camera with IR and outdoors will give you even more false positives. If after playing with detection zones and sensitivity you are still not happy with the results (too many videos with nothing), maybe you should install some outdoor PIRs that will trigger the recordings, so bugs, wind, trees, bushes, dirt, etc. won't be a problem any more.