Daryl733

Referring to yourself ? Just in case you didn't know, TVI/CVI is AnalogHD. Google it instead of taking my words for it. Btw, I never push Analog over IP. Using either depends on situation. We are talking about reliability here. You said it is just as reliable, I disagreed as inherently, there's more point of failure. Doesn't mean it'll fail, just means there's more possible way to fail compared to analog coax system. IP setting could cause a cam to go offline, doesn't happen to analog (which include analog HD btw). DOS attack could flood the network switches causing failure of video stream, doesn't happen to analog cabling (including analog HD). Connecting a Network Device with the Same IP to the same network would cause ip conflict situation which will take camera with same IP offline, doesn't happen to analog system (including analog HD). Firmware of IP Cameras might need to be updated to fix bugs, analog camera (including analog hd) doesn't have any firmware to updatem, if it works, it works. Firmware upgrade is not 100% foolproof. Equipment under going firmware upgrade sometimes failed during the upgrade process and require further steps to reload the firmware/kernel. These among others. For home use nvr + ip cameras, most people just plug and play. Plug and play means the default login of the cameras are never changed. Only the NVR is. Any IP devices which is left in default settings will be less secure than those with setting changed. As mentioned in other post, IP based allow for flexibility of deployment. You could add on equipment with less cabling work. Even using wireless is more secure as it's harder to find common standard secure wireless transmission equipment for analog equipment. I use both IP/Analog depending on situation and also customer budget. Redundant recording design , offsite backup, doesn't only applies to only 100% IP Based system. Other systems also supports it.

Well, even Apple, Goggle, Microsoft software have bugs and security flaw. If you never ever need to restart any IP devices or seen any IP devices restart by itself, you probably haven't use/seen enough of them. One of the troubleshooting steps for any brand of IP equipment is always to do a power cycle (switch off and on or commonly call reboot/restart). Would you consider Pelco, AXIS, Samsung, HIKVision, AVTech, Bosch, Vivotek, , etc system as crap equipment/brand ? http://buildingskb.schneider-electric.com/view.php?AID=11841 You won't need this troubleshooting instruction if rebooting to resolve a ip device functionality issues is never required. Perhaps you could also recommend the perfect brand that you had been using that never ever need to reboot so that the TS could make a informed choices as well. And for the other thread, the TS wanted Cheap and Wifi, what else would you recommend ? Your perfect IP equipment ? But is it gonna be CHEAP enough for that user ? How to Choose Budget Level CCTV Camera? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=50776

From experience, people normally don't believe until they used it. They'll take these cheap wireless camera system to compare with proper CCTV equipment and say that what we recommended are expensive. They'll need to use to believe. Gave up arguing with people who want cheap. Normally just point them to DLINK equipment. Got prob ? DLINK got 24 hours hours hotline. DLINK is "branded" as well. But on the other hand, I know people who are more technical savvy, and they do make the those system works and know how to keep it up and running.

It's case sensitive. If you have physical access to the DVR, just switch it off and on when you exhaust all password attempts. However if you really cannot remember the correct password, it'll be troublesome. http://overseas.hikvision.com/ueditor/net/upload/2015-12-24/b7d67cfb-e66d-477a-ae71-ec751d86da85.pdf

That's roughly what I meant. I didn't say IP is not reliable. TS asked if they are AS RELIABLE as analogue, which in my opinion, they are not and never will be due to the existence of more point of possible failures. Just take for example, each IP camera is also a web/video server with firmware (embedded software). Any software will have potential bugs, otherwise you'll not require software/firmware update to fix bugs. And some firmware which are not that well written can't handle exception properly and they hanged or slow down due to memory leak or some other reason. Just look at some NVR/DVR, they have a schedule reset feature to "increase stability". So for a 4 Camera system, you have 5 devices running server firmware whereas compared to an analogue system which has only 1. Even if all devices are equally reliable on it's own based (based on firmware), e.g. 99% reliability , for IP system, it'll be only 95.01% (99% pwr of 5) whereas analogue system is still 99% (law of probability). I don't even want to go down the path of potential security flaw in the implementation of a NVR with directly connected ip camera, which is non existent in analogue system. BUT as I mentioned, IP based system have it's own strength as well. So you got to decide based on your requirement and budget.

He want cheap and wireless. Never say good system.

iVMS-4500 for the mobile devices (search in app store) iVMS-4200 for the PC/Mac (get it from their website) Or you can use the web browser. Use Local IP.

If you are going for cheap, get wireless ip camera for surveillance. Not too sure about your country, we could get some over here as cheap as around USD$25. You got to set it up yourself.

Just set it up the usual way but without internet. Login to the DVR through the wifi provided by the router to monitor in the range of the wifi using the local IP.

Your NAS should handle the formating. Don't need to format outside the NAS. You might want to consider other brand/model of nas. What the Camera do is they will populate the partition with their files to "pre-occupied" the space. That's what the camera does with it "format" the partition mapped to the NAS.

I beg to differ. IP is never going to be as RELIABLE as Analog. Reliable, yes if properly installed. AS RELIABLE, no. There's a lot more failure point in a IP system than analog system irregardless of products brands or methodology of installation. However, IP systems are more flexible and scaleable. Given the same resolution of cameras specified by same manufacturer, (analoge hd and ip) the image quality on an ip camera is normally sharper. And unless you are going for those cloud storage system (which have even more failure points), internet connection shouldn't play a part in the reliability of the recordings. For your use, if you are going to reuse the cabling, go for analogue-hd. If you are going for a new system, depending on your budget, you can consider analogue hd or ip hd. IP HD is normally more expensive. Clarity of the footage also depends on your area of coverage. Consider going for more cameras if you are covering a large area. Using just 1 wide angle camera for your lawn and expect to capture an offender's face @ 200fts away usually means you had been watching too much CSI. This won't be possible unless you are using multi-megapixel cameras.

Connect your laptop to another spare POE switch on your NVR. The NVR will act as a router. You should be able to access the camera directly. You gotta isolate if it's the camera prob or the nvr problem first. If it's the camera issues, you can try reset to factory default , or lower down the resolution and see if problems still occurs. If you purchase from local vendor, bring the system back and ask them to troubleshoot for you.

It doesn't work this way. The NAS would need to support NFS (Network File System) for the camera to be able to access. Once the camera is able to access the partition, it'll format it in it's own file system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System Server Address would be the IP address. File Path would be something like /mnt/xxx

Why not just get their NVR as well. Think it'll be cheaper than your PC assembly. More stable as well.

Then enable the DDNS ? To use that, your NVR must have internet access and also have proper DNS setup for the NVR to resolved the DDNS Server host.

If you add the NAS to the Camera to record as NFS, each partition can only support 1 camera. It's either you partition your nas to multiple partition and use different partition for each camera, or get multiple nas to support the multiple camera. Also, it's not a given all nas will work with the brand as well.

How are you viewing it ? From the Monitor connected to the NVR or from some other computer or devices ? It's a 4MP camera, bandwidth requirement and decoding would be higher. If you still face the same issues, try connecting directly to the camera and view instead of going through the NVR.

I don't think you provide any useful information that enable anyone to assist you. No brand, no model, no photo. There are thousands of different brand/model/version of devices there. Was the mac address different right from the start ? As you said it's a china set without brand/model. Could be from those small company that just copy/clone things from others. The manufacturer might had used the same mac address for all their devices. What you can do if you got no idea, get a cheap router, connect one of the DVR behind the router configured with a different subnet, set the router DMZ mode to be on and forward it to that DVR. Now the 2 Mac address will no longer be on the same subnet.

Think you are overthinking the solution. Most DVR support dual stream. A substream that you can set to send lower bitrate video feed , and a mainstream that's use for recording and viewing. Some also support triple stream, another event stream to support even higher bitrate recording when motion/event's triggered. In case of HIKVISION's interface, you can group the cameras to different userid, each id can only view certain cameras. Depending on the client software you use (mobile, pc, etc), it'll either enable you to manually or automatically select the appropriate stream to view. If you are looking at streaming to large number of clients, they also support streamserver configuration (something like a videofeed proxy server). One of the pc client in each area can be configured as a streamserver, so that other pc in the same network will share the videofeed instead of pulling multiple connection directly from the DVR. I prefer to use non-pc based DVR nowadays. No OS issues/support to worry about. Using the DVR in this case basically supports all your requirement.

Most likely it's a DDNS or P2P identification code. DDNS require DVR to contact the server periodically to update the IP address. P2P require the DVR to maintain a constant connection to the server for the server to establish a connection back to the DVR when your software client attempt to connect back to your DVR. It should uses min bandwidth. Check your router, some router have build in function to monitor tx/rx of each device/port.

Nano M5 max throughput is 150Mbps. Theoretically, you can stream 9 Cameras at max 16Mbps/Camera. 3M cameras' recommended bitrate is ard 5Mbps. So you should have enough, depends on your actual throughput of your wireless connection which varies depending on site condition. Normally I get ard 80-90% signal strength with line of sight at around 1km. But that varies site to site depending on the site condition. Just remember the higher the bitrate you set your camera to, the higher the disk consumption.

It really depends on the bitrate you set on your IP cameras. 1 to 3 Megapixel IP camera uses around 3Mbps (lower or higher depends on your setting). 100Mbps switch more than cater for the bandwidth. The DVR doesn't support anything higher in resolution anyway.

What is GID ? Easiest way to find out, just unplug your internet connection (Phone/Cable/Fibre) from your internet router and see if LAN viewing still works. If it doesn't, then it means it require internet (bandwidth) to works.

Best way, charge the battery up full, and let it run down. Your DVR would have recorded the period of time when the system is working. The type of battery, the temperate it is operating at, how old the battery, etc all will play a part. Looking at purely these information are pretty useless to gauge actual power consumption. If you are using unbranded or even some branded equipment, the way some manufacturer labelled all these specs is by copying similar products specs and not actually running tests. They are also supposed to be the max power consumption rather than the usual power consumption if they are correct. The timer you have doesn't give the power consumption. It indicate what's the maximum load that can pass through the timer safely. Also, you are using a AC Timer, so you'll have to put in a invertor as well. Last but not least, from experience, it is not advisable to connect electronics especially the DVR to the battery. You might want to consider putting in a safety cutoff in your design that cut off voltage from the battery when voltage drops below certain voltage, e.g. 11.5V. This will alley your concern about overdrawing the battery, and also protect the equipment from exhibiting funny symptoms. e.g. When insufficient power, the DVR might still be on, but the harddisk connected to it might not operate, etc. If you still want to calculate, here's some tools. https://www.batterystuff.com/kb/tools/calculator-for-load-specific-run-time.html

Try upgrading your iVMS-4200 ? http://overseas.hikvision.com/en/Tools_84.html Latest Version is v2.4.1.3 Sorry, just realised you are using Mac. That I am not familiar.