Daryl733

Agree with tomcctv. It's not recommend to upgrade firmware from unknown/unauthorised sources, especially for HIKVISION, Dahua, etc equipment purchase online from internet vendor or OEMed equipment with different brand on it. Most of the online vendor from china sold local china sets loaded with international firmware either through normal or with a bit of tweaking. For OEMed equipment, sometimes they have different hardware and firmware customised for the vendor, and the equipment might not work well with the standard firmware from the manufacturer. Read around the forum and you'll find many cases where users bricked their equipment with wrong firmware or have the whole system menu changed to chinese sets after loading new firmware. If you are going to try, HIKVISION does provide firmware downloads on their website. http://overseas.hikvision.com/en/download_89.html The newer firmware on equipment from authorised channel does comes with an update button. Haven't try it out yet, but by right it should load in the correct version of the firmware.

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Errmm... dmills913, I don't believe I ever force you to spend any money. Correct me if I am wrong, and I'll apologise for that if I ever gave that impression. tomcctv, you mentioned a lots of vague instruction that contradicts with what the manufacturer says on their website. Understandably, you have a lot of years of experience and may know something that the manufacturer doesn't. That's why we looked up to you and await with great anticipation of your solution that we could all learn something from. Like dmills913, I can't find any local app that you mentioned. I also did a search on itune on all apps that listed y-cam as the developer in a previous post and asked for your advice on which is the local app that you had mentioned multiple times in this thread that neither dmills913 nor I could locate. Perhaps it's posted under other developers which there are thousands and it's not feasible or possible for dmills913 to download all conceivable apps that looks like it support y-cam and test it out. I believe dmills913 has other aspect of his business to focus on and getting this up and running is not the sole purpose of his existence. It would be helpful to just copy the link to the exact app so that he can get it up and running, and in your own words , " it would off all Been done by now ".

I never said it can't be done and it's never personal. You are just reading it the wrong way. I even say listen to you, the expert. My exact words. Based on my limited experience compared to yours, I understand that you'll need sufficient bandwidth to do live recording or send any recording offsite through your broadband connection. If the 5 cameras is constantly using ard 20Mbps for video streaming, you'll need a minimum of 20Mbps to stream the video to an offsite server or NVR. If you don't have 20Mbps, your NVR will record choppy video, or your offsite server will always lagged behind in the synchronisation of data. If the offsite NVR/Server supports edge recording, you'll need more than 20Mbps for every min of recording that was done if and when the internet connection is disconnected. Based on my limited experience, I've yet to encounter any connection with 100% uptime guaranteed. So you'll just have to buffer for that. If the user is also gonna view live video at the same time, he'll need another up to 20Mbps to stream the video feed to each of his device unless the trendnet system support proxy stream server like what some other equipment does. Now, unless the internet connection is solely used for this purpose, he'll need additional bandwidth on top of these 40Mbps+ to enable users of the internet to be able to actually surf the internet. Then again, I could be wrong. There could be some technology that I didn't know about that can transmit more data at speed faster than what the ISP provided.

Referring to the offsite storage. Anyway, I don't have that many year of experiences and I might be wrong. Perhapes there's way to do offsite storage without sufficient bandwidth that I've yet to know about.

Listen to the expert. tomcctv have over 30 years of experience. " title="Applause" /> Just make sure your bandwidth is sufficient to do live recording at the bitrate and more.

Just keep that HDD then. If you need it, then plug it back to your DVR and playback. Unless your Camera is pointing to something that can be verified to be of a particular date/time, the DVR datetime could always be changed to fake a recording. As mentioned, just keep that HDD. If you need the record, plug in back to the DVR to copy the incident (10-15mins of recording) out. In the long run, you might want to consider changing to something that can record for the period that you want.

check if your ddns name format is correct. Some ddns require the name to start with letter, all supposed to be small cap, etc.

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Backing up through network or USB ? Some system comes with USB 1 instead of 2... so speed is pretty slow. As said, the backup function of most DVR are basically for incident backup, 10 , 15 mins etc. Not really for downloading the whole HDD. 1TB over USB 2 will take at least 5.5 hours if the harddisk is not in use for other purpose at almost full throughput. If it's also concurrently recording, the time taken will more than double.

Well... just take note that a lot of these brand doesn't care about your selling price. They just wanna move volume.

Oh great. Miss that out.

No idea if it's the same. Sometime it's just firmware that's slightly modified to display the brandname, sometimes the casing are changed, sometimes there might be additional hardware option or less hardware option requested by the vendor. A lot of things are OEMed.... You think certain brand really produce battery pack for charging of handphone ? Walmart or Target really produce in house branded items/food product that they have or they just stick their brand on it ?

Yes. Do take note of the type of mic it support. If it's line in mic or normal mic. There's a differences. Some have menu option to select, others might only support one. No. It'll be through the networks streaming. If it has an audio out, it means most likely mean you can connect a speaker to the camera, and speak from the client software/app/nvr to be heard on the speaker. Btw, you sure you comfortable taking advices from someone who doesn't have over 30 years of experiences ?

Could be the NVR HDD as well. It's currently recording 7 Cams , and is also attempting to retrieve the recording on another sector. Could also be your computer. If there's motion, it takes more hardware to decode. Depending on your recording bitrate as well. If you are setting to constant/variable/event stream that's higher than main stream. Doesn't really matter since it's all depending on the bitrate. Try downloading and playback. That'll isolate if it's NVR HDD or Network Speed issues. Try playing back on another computer/faster computer. That'll isolate your client issues.

How sure you are that the contact on the door is not daisy chain to other contact in the alarm system ? In my opinion, just install a separate door contact sensor. Less problematic and doesn't involve meddling in other separate system component that are currently working. Door sensor is cheap. Some EMLock also have magnetic bond in them to detect closure, so you don't need extra contact sensor (still need the wiring though). Even if you put in extra door sensor, you can put it near the EMLock, and check if the EMLock have extra pair of wire for wiring. Most time there should be spare wiring from the EMLock to the Controller.

Not all IP Cameras come with inbuilt mic. Most required additional mic to be installed even if they support audio. If you are looking at camera with mic, you have to check the specs. e.g. this come with build in mic. http://www.amazon.com/Dahua-IPC-KW12W-Megapixel-Network-Camera/dp/B00OAEPQ4C/ Have Audio doesn't mean have build in mic.

Since you mentioned TrendNet, here's the sizing tool. http://www.trendnet.com/products/camerahelper/ Just take note that having 5 Cameras 720P HD @ 2048kbps will required around 20Mbps of bandwidth constantly sending data to your NVR and to your offsite server. If your connection is not fast enough, or your offsite server limits the file transfer speed to it, you'll never be able to do it fast enough to keep up. Using non integrated services will mean you'll have to handle the files manually. e.g. no timeline to search (have to look at individual file name), click files 1 by 1 to playback, no multicam simultaneous view, deleting of old files off manually, etc. To recording these 5 cameras, you'll need over 800GB of storage per week, or around 3.2TB per month or roughly about 5GB per hour. Dropbox FREE have around 2GB of space. Which means it'll be enough to record 24 mins ?

If you are asking this question, you probably need a profession to install it as it means you have no idea how IP network works.

DVR backup are mainly use for incident backup, and not to back up ALL files. To copy 1 TB of file, you'll need at least 1TB of space. Since you are intending to copy everything off the harddisk, why not just swap in a new HDD to your DVR ? Check if there are software available from the manufacturer to playback the HDD if it is connected directly to your computer. Most DVR format their harddisk as Ext format (linux). You can find software to mount the partition, but you might not be able to playback the files as well as the backup files and the files structure used for recording are most likely different. If you just intend to have longer period of recording so that you can have longer time to review them, just increase the HDD size installed. Otherwise if you want to review everything and never do it in pace with the recording, you'll always lag behind, and you'll have accumulative period of footage (translate that to more and more HDD with backups).

Did you try downloading the backup and using the player to backup ? Sometimes it might be the recording is fine, however either the computer or the NVR or your network lack the sufficient resources/bandwidth to smoothly playback the video in realtime.

Since you already got the NVR and the setup, why are you considering ditching the NVR ?

HIKVISION does OEM their equipment for others to do branding on. You can definitely find HIKVISION equipment with non HIKVISION brand on it.

On some system, you could virtually split the fisheyes camera (panoramic) camera into either 4 cam display, a single/dual panorama display. Not too sure if you are able to make that "fix" on the display though so you don't need to redo that everytime the system start up though. You can use them in place of the "wedge" camera to showcase the class to the parent. Do note you'll need to stream them at higher resolution, so that you can virtually split them to 720P to display on the TV. Bandwidth for your HQ (Look at the Download). Bandwidth where the cameras are (Look at the upload speed). It's an indication. Doesn't necessary mean you'll get those kinda throughput depending on how your ISP peers. Especially if you are subscribing to 2 different ISP. We have local ISPs that don't peer locally ! The traffic from 1 local ISP to another have to go out of the country oversea, then back again... Don't ask me why....

Just take note, to stream 720P smoothly over internet, you'll still need ard 3Mbps of bandwidth per camera. You might want to go www.speedtest.net and test if your bandwidth's sufficient for the resolution you intend to stream. No experience with Blue Iris, but on NVR/DVR, it'll just be double clicking on the camera you want to view. Those with Remote, just click n the Camera number. For those software DVR, most of the scheduling is for recording scheduling. I haven't seen one that schedule which camera to display on a date/time basis. Only for Dwell time, e.g. Switch between camera at interval. But I never use Blue Iris before, so I can't comment on that. If the system is setup with password protection, you'll need to enter the password.