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I though Dahua was a re-brand of Hikvision, that's why I asked if there was a compatible model, because Axxon has Dahua drivers as well

buelwinkle, what is the dahua equivalent model for the hik ds-2c2032-i?

Actually they did responded to my ticket and help me with installation. Now I was able to add 4 cameras. Is not easy to config, I am gonna start playing with it and se if I like it.

I have spend a few hours with Axxon Next and I was not able to install my cameras. For some reason I was not able to safe any change. I guess I have to wait until they make it more user friendly.

I did a test setting the quota for 10Gb for one of the cameras and when it got full, the storage status on the camera changed to uninitialized and stop recording, did not started to overwrite.

I did sent an e-mail regarding an installation issue, but I got an auto reply saying I need to go to https://support.axxonsoft.com and create a ticket, which I did, but so far no answer yet.

Share your experience with iomega, I am looking for a small NAS device

That make sense. Reserve means you are reserving disk space, quota means you can only use up to that disk space, but it may be reserved or not. I am thinking on a 1 TB disk we can set the quota to 1TB on each camera, meaning the cameras will share the whole disk space. Does that make sense? BTW, I found the quota settings on FreeNAS and now I can reboot the cameras and the server without loosing the association. Thank you for your help. Now I have to experiment with compression and other settings.

I think Hikvision cameras only support NFS sharing, Windows use CIFS

FreeNAS may be slightly different than NAS4free, I do not see any quota setting under database. One work around that can think of is, if one of the cameras lost association, create a new data set and point your share to the new data set before formatting it, that way old recorded files won't get lose and you can still access them from another pc.

How do you have the drive space partitioned? I had the same issue. I think I figured it out. Under Dataset I had the Reservation set to .90TB. I figured I would use half the drive for one camera and half for the other. Every time the NAS would reboot or some other kind of network hiccup it would do just what you said. I changed the Reservation to blank and set the .90TB in the Quota. So far so good. 4 days and still up. I was barely getting 12-16 hrs before. I did not set any reservation or quota. I think this way all cameras share all available disk space, but what do I know. A added a CIFS share and now I can access all recording from my Windows computer, I will test later what happen if I reboot one of the cameras I just rebooted one of the cameras on purpose and yes when you click on format storage it delete all the videos previously storage on it NAS database

How do you have the drive space partitioned? I had the same issue. I think I figured it out. Under Dataset I had the Reservation set to .90TB. I figured I would use half the drive for one camera and half for the other. Every time the NAS would reboot or some other kind of network hiccup it would do just what you said. I changed the Reservation to blank and set the .90TB in the Quota. So far so good. 4 days and still up. I was barely getting 12-16 hrs before. I did not set any reservation or quota. I think this way all cameras share all available disk space, but what do I know. A added a CIFS share and now I can access all recording from my Windows computer, I will test later what happen if I reboot one of the cameras

I have been trying to install Axxon Next, but keep getting the NGP host service error. Does anybody knows how to fix this issue?

I have read other post with good recomendations for IR Illuminators, but they are out of my budged for now. I am wondering if anybody have tried a cheaper one with decent results. I am trying to iluminate a back yard about 60 feet long and I will be installing 2 hikvision ds-2c2032 cams.

One of the issues I see with this setup is, If I reboot the camera, the status under storage management on the camera change to uninitialized, having to click on format again and loosing the recorded videos.

I finally got 2 cameras working with FreeNAS. I created: 1 ZFS volume (video) 2 Dataset (cam1, cam2) 2 NFS Sharing This may not be the best way, but is working so far. Of course I have many questions about FreeNAS since I do not have experience with any NAS system, like: I don't know what happens when the hard drive gets full, it will stop recording or it will overwrite the data?

I do need extra IR, I am just testing inside the house now and is not getting too far inside a room. This one looks interesting http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-IR-200-940-CMVision-Wavelength-Illuminator/dp/B004PLOPDS/ref=aag_m_pw_dp?ie=UTF8&m=A4AJWF423TD0Q

Thank you mechBgon, I was looking at this one http://www.amazon.com/CMVision-IR200-Outdoor-400-500ft-Illuminator-Adapter/dp/B004V9Z7ZY/

I am inUSA, budget is about $300

correct you should...should be able to flash directly from the web Mission accomplished " title="Applause" />

Thank you zikronix, we really own your guys for trying and taking the risk. My Cameras are NC-KBU32 with f/w V5.00_130719, if I understood everything correctly I should be able to upgrade to 13805 with no issues (Don't worry, I will not blame you if fail). What I was missing is how to do the web f/w upgrade, but I found it under Configuration/Maintenance. I think I am ready now, lol

I found the firware on the Hikvision Europe site. Does anybody have fool proved step by step firmware upgrade instructions?

I am ready to give it a try. Where I can get hikvision 5.0.2_13805 f/w?

FastEddy, would you mind giving more details of how to make this script work in windows?

Just out of curiosity, what do you gain but updating to hikvision firmware?