Scoobs72

In "Local Configuration" on your camera, check that "Rules" is enabled. Rules has to be enabled for dynamic analysis to work.

Have a look at ACTi's own NVRs then. Compatibility should, obviously, not be an issue with ACTi cameras paired with an ACTi NVR.

Just be aware, SS has its faults. It is not a particularly well developed application, imo. If you are buying a solution from scratch and it is purely for IP camera usage then it would not be my first recommendation. And for 20 cameras, there's no way I'd go for Synology, QNAP or any other of these types of NAS application solutions.

Some answers: 1. Recording is performed by the SS application on the NAS. SS is an application that you download and install on the NAS 2. Yes, you will need to install a plugin. The plugin downloads via SS when you first use it. 3. SS runs on the NAS, so doesn't need a PC to work. However, you need your PC to be able to log into SS for configuration and viewing recordings/timeline 4. Upgrades are free. SS comes with two camera licences. Additional licences need to be purchased 5. No idea, sorry. However there is a compatibility chart you can check on Synology's website. I'm sure you could find it easily via Google.

I've just set my two "purple haze" cams to Red = 40, Blue = 34. That gives me a very accurate colour balance throughout the day. I've not had to touch saturation with those settings. It tooks some trial and error to get the right balance between red and blue.

I think the issue is that a number of cameras (e.g. 50% of mine) have poor white balance settings 'out of the box'. This can be fixed by manually tuning the white balance settings, but for some inexplicable reason Hikvision removed this feature in the 5.1.2 firmware.

It's not this problem is it? http://www.cam-it.org/index.php?topic=7603.15

It worked! Thanks so much. As an aside, it looks to me like 5.2.0 is more of a downgrade, than an upgraded firmware. Face detection removed, ability to downgrade to an older firmware level removed etc... 5.1.6 has also been pulled from the US FTP server. Personally, I'm sticking with 5.1.6 until there's a real reason to upgrade.

tftp firmware recovery can take you to any versions. Seems like it's a real pain to do? Needs a separate 12v psu for the camera and a crossover cable????

Eeek! There seems to be no ability to downgrade from 5.2.0 once you've loaded it up. Any attempts are met with "Ugrading failed".

You need PCNVR

Email doesn't seem to work from PCNVR with some email providers (e.g. gmail). Anyway, it is actually better to send emails from the cameras directly because they have the benefit of being able to send emails which capture images every x seconds. So you end up with 3 images in the your email for each event, and you can clearly see what has happened during the whole event. When you get just one image from PCNVR you cannot be sure exactly what triggered the recording. I can't help with the other error. Sorry.

Try setting the iframe rate to halve of the fps rate. On my setup, when iframe is set to the same as the fps it causes ghosting/dropouts. Also, if you're running these cameras at 3mp with quality set to "best" your bitrate is too low for 20fps. There's a bitrate chart on the Hikvision US FTP site (under the Technical Bulletins section) which lists recommended rates.

Have you tried another provider, e.g. GMX ? It only takes a few minutes to set up an account with GMX. GMX is working fine for me, after Gmail stopped working.

Yes, I've been running it for the past week or so. I couldn't actually see any improvement from the previous version though.