tdenson

I have been trying to setup my Dahua NVR to FTP me in the event of an alarm trigger but I can't get it to work. I can get it to FTP me a file every x seconds, but not on a trigger. Is this possible ?

Thanks, that's very helpful - particularly as I've just ordered one speculatively

Anyone know if the Hikvision DS-2CD2032 is compatible with the Dahua 3208P ?

I didn't specifically pay extra because I wanted POE, it just happened that the one I chose to buy had POE (from the models available in the UK). The more I think about it the more I think that ad hoc POE switches are more convenient in that I don't have to run the wiring all the way back to the NVR. At the end of the day life is too short and it would be too much hassle to take it up with my supplier.

I have read the Dahua user manual but don't understand how the POE ports on my Dahua work. I have plugged the 48V PSU in appropriately, and connected a POE camera to one of the ports. It works but it appears twice in my camera list and I get duplicate preview windows. One of the entries I can't delete, and if I delete the other entry both disappear. However, in the remote devices section of the firmware it lists my camera with a port number of "Port 1" rather than a numerical value. Also it has an ip address of 10.1.1.128 when my main network is 192.168.1.x. If I try and change it through network setting/switch I get an error "switch and device shall not be in the same network segment". Can someone please explain to me what is going on here ?

Does anyone know if it is possible to get remote access to a Dahua 3208P via an iPhone or iPad ?

Yes, no need to rub it in

Thanks. Yes, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that where I want a POE camera, I will either use a POE injector, or just use passive converters where the cable run is not too long.

You were right and I was confusing TCP and HTTP ports. I now have it working on an iPad although for some reason I can't get it working on my iPhone, although I am sure this is something and nothing. Thanks v. much

I don't see anywhere in IDMSS to set either my MAC address or gateway. Furthermore I don't see the relevance to a locally connected device of the gateway. As I have said in another post it works fine with IE, Blue Iris, Security Spy and DComplex. As far as following your instructions, they were all to do with port forwarding, which has nothing to do with a locally connected device. I have now tried GDMSS on my Android phone and I get the same timeout problem. This is really strange as I'm sure these apps work, but I really can't see what I am doing wrong.

Yes. As I've already said it works with IE, Blue Iris, Security Spy and DComplex so something as basic as that I have done. I don't use the default as I have a convention for the ip address and ports of all my cameras as 192.168.1.15x and 8xxx, and use the base addresses for the NVR.

Still making no progress. The screenshot below shows my IDMSS settings for the Dahua NVR - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2351913/photo.PNG Actually, I've only just realised that IDMSS is Dahua specific software - hence my confusion earlier when someone said "of course"

As I've just said in another post I am only testing it locally ATM. I wouldn't think I would need to adjust bit rates. I can access the camera with IE, Blue Iris, Security Spy and DComplex quite happily. I will look again at how I have set up IDMSS, I must be doing something dumb.

I should have said that at the moment I am only testing locally. I like to do things in a logical order and there seems little point involving routers and port forwarding until I can get it working on my local network.

I don't think that was called for. I only said "are you sure" because it's not unknown for someone to misread a post and reply about the wrong device, I was only confirming what was being said.

I have done that to no avail. And yes, I have checked the password. I even changed it from a nul one to a real one just in case that was throwing it. Also, I don't really see the relevance as they both work fine from Internet Explorer. As far as the bit rate is concerned do you mean at the camera or in IDMSS ?

I must be doing something wrong then. I have both a Dahua NVR and a Dahua camera. When I try to connect to either one with IDMSS I get "Time is out". This is the lite version, I would happily buy the full one if I thought it would work, but surely the lite version should at least show the video ?

Why "of course" ?

I can't get that to work - are you sure it works with the Dahua NVR ?

I got the firmware from my supplier, so I should be OK hopefully

I have downloaded a new version of the firmware, but I can't see anywhere how to actually install it

I can't see any upgrade menu

I have a question regarding the connection between MD on a Dahua camera and MD on a Dahua NVR. I have bought a Dahua 3208P NVR and am trying to set it up with MD. The first thing I discovered was that despite all this talk about ONVIF 2.0 compliance, the third part cameras I bought would not work with the Dahua NVR. So I went and bought a Dahua HFW3200S camera. This works in as much as I can get the MD to work after a fashion, but it is totally erratic and when I play with the sensitivity and dither etc. I either get something that doesn't trigger at all or triggers all the time. My question however is this - what is the connection between the camera and the NVR. Does the NVR issue MD info to the camera. If it does, should I not see this reflected in the camera settings (I don't) ? I am thinking of giving up on buying Dahua cameras and instead use cheaper cameras, and then install common or garden PIRs and use those to trigger the alarm inputs to the Dahua - is this a sensible strategy ?

I'm not sure using common or garden variety PIR's would be a wise choice. The cheap PIR's will probably cause you a lot of grief in terms of false motion detection. I own a Dahua DVR and use Optex http://www.optexamerica.com/security-products/lx-402 commercial grade PIR's as input to my security system which is a HA Omni Pro II system. . I didn't necessarily mean cheap, I just meant standard PIRs as opposed to visual motion detection. It seems to me that the PIR approach is likely to be far more reliable. Trouble with visual MD are things like insects and rain. I have now tried it with a cheap PIR as it happens and it works nicely, but I will investigate the ones you mention (I am in the UK though).

As I said, the only way I've been able to even get motion detect half working is by buying a Dahua camera.