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The web site is now online and they have put CD for download http://www.escam.cn/en/download/QD-series-CD.html

Well, then you need a camera that has alarm input/output and can trigger alert on alarm input. Many cameras have this option. You need to check levels on probe if they match the ones on the camera.

Simplest way would be to use email notification triggered by moton detection, then no probe is needed

Which models did you buy? I was able to read the mini-cd but there was nothing really useful on it. There is an user guide but its totally useless. I will upload the contents to a fileshare next week when I get back home

sending 12V DC over 50 meters is not a good idea. 12V is not powerful enough to push current over such distance. I recommend that you take 220V as far as possible and use 12V adapter closer to the camera.

600mA = 0.6 AMP If you have an adaptor that is able to provide 1000mA and your gadget starts drawing more power, the voltage will drop and unpredicted behaviour will happen. I had an Asus router with two USB ports and if plugged in two USB sticks they would draw too much power. Router would reset, there would be write failures on NVRAM, eventually power supply failed only then I figured out the problem was with the power adaptor. You are on the safe side if you buy 2amp supply, if your camera has PTZ then you'll probably need it.

I don't have Hikvision but my cosiderably cheaper camera has FTP upload built into firmware.

If you cannot install anything on your computer your options are very limited. At least you'd need to install VLC player and use its ActiveX component to watch RTSP feed in web broswer. You could set up a RTMP server the use flash to watch video, but this requires RTSP->RTMP server which you probably cannot run on a commercial web site. You are probably left with setting up your camera or DVR software to periodically upload snapshots/clips to your web server then watch those in the browser.

First you need to get IE with the ActiveX plugin working. This is the tricky part. - set your router so that it has IP 192.168.1.1 (default on all routers) - on yor windows machine, press Win+R and start "cmd" then enter c:\>ipconfig, it must show your 'IPv4 Address' as 192.168.1.XXX and 'Default Gateway' as 192.168.1.1 - start IE and type address http://192.168.1.10 if everything is as described above, you'll get Username and Password prompt in CHINESE - change language on top-right of the screen then close/reopen IE, you should see user/pass in your language - click 'download', then "allow" and/or "ok" and install ActiveX plugin, after installation, restart IE again. - enter "admin" as user and leave password blank. Click 'login' Camera page should load now and prompt you for "Connect all video", if you click OK camera feed will show - press 'Device cfg' - choose gear icon - click 'NetWork" - enable checkbox "DHCP Enable" - enter Primary DNS 192.168.1.1 (or your ISP DNS) - Click OK - reboot your camera under "advanced" tab in 'Device cfg' at this point you need to find out new IP address of your camera. On my Asus router I find it under status->DHCP leases. It is a good idea to setup your router to give your camera always the same IP address. This can be set up on router under DHCP Server settings.

I have working escam QD500 bought from china website, at first there was hassle with setting it up because it had hard coded IP but I managed to change that into DHCP and is now working as expected. I don't like the provided IE controls and vMeye is also crap so I use its RTSP feed for monitoring. Framerate on RTSP is a bit low and I also had to write a custom script so that I can turn motion detection on/off with a single URL call. Web site has now changed into something different so I'm guessing no support any more. Too bad as I was hoping for a firmware upgrade.