dan_man

I have V2.6.1.2 Build 20170318

I want my surveillance system to automatically restart recording if Windows 10 restarts laptop (auto updates). I have the Windows Task Scheduler automatically launching iVMS, but I need to know how to get continuous recording started automatically (instead of having to manually click the red button in Main View. Thanks

I want my surveillance system to automatically restart if Windows 10 auto-updates/restarts (ugh). Just spent all night figuring out how to get over half a dozen hurtles and I have only one left: I have the Windows Task Scheduler automatically launching iVMS, but I need to know how to get continuous recording started automatically (instead of having to manually click the red button in Main View. Thanks

Script is from this thread. I have not gotten it working yet. I am not sure where they got the DateTime-Event-Sunrise package (references to it online seem to be Unix/Linux related), I'm on a PC. viewtopic.php?f=19&t=37200

Thanks MaxIcon

Thanks for the insight. If I turn brightness down to 3% in night mode I get good facial recognition even though background is dark. Seems counterintuitive but now it makes perfect sense. Heck of a lot more IR bouncing off if the perps face than off of the street behind him. Anyway this leads to next question: I would like to be able to have intensity change automatically to 50% for daytime operation. I have found a Perl script online to do this, new territory for me but I am willing to learn. Any other easier way to do this? I would also like to create a motion detected summary video that I can look at briefly each evening just to see if anything happened, but keep the full mp4 files so I can go back to them if needed. Is this what folks typically do? Thanks

Anyone know if there is a way, perhaps some software, to have the camera use different brightness settings (or other settings for that matter) when it automatically shifts from day to night mode? Thanks

MaxIcon, Thanks for the detailed response. Can you recommend a specific longer lens camera? Today I replaced my old rusty garage door lamp (100W) with a floodlight (150W x 2). Seems worse, big bright spots on driveway cause too much contrast. If I make brightness high, I can see to end of driveway but close to garage is all washed out. Person standing between cars is just a white outline. If I lower brightness to be able to see person standing between cars, background is pitch black.

I got in by using hikvision SADP software (free download). I spent a good deal of time experimenting with the former approach, I thought I understood how routers worked, guess not. I even tried hooking up two PCs, each with fixed IP address (192.0.0.100, 192.0.0.101), and I could not do pings between them through either router.

The vandalism that I am trying to catch is happening at night. Should I be looking for a CCD camera instead of CMOS? Are there any recommendations for CCD camera? Thanks

Thanks folks for the info. When I originally tried to setup the camera, I followed some instructions I found on the "net" to change my PC IP address to 192.0.0.100 in order to initially connect with the camera whose default IP is 192.0.0.64. This did not work for me, I was never able to get 192.0.0.X packets to go through either of my routers (old Westell VersaLink 327W DSL modem, brand new Intelligent 8 port PoE switch). Anyone know what is going on here? Something I don't understand about routers? Thanks

Got the NHD-820 connected to my PC through Westell VersaLink 327W DSL modem/router and PoE injector. Image quality looks bad, both in pitch dark and with 100W light between garage doors on, both look about the same. I can't even read my own license plate about 10 feet in front of the camera. When I zoom in all I see is noise. Any thoughts on what could be wrong? Hopefully my expectations are not too high. Image attached, Thanks,

New this: Just purchased Swann 1080p NHD 820 (the one that is said to be same as Hikvision DS-2CD2032-1), and a suitable PoE injector. I am trying to connect it to my Windows PC through wired Ethernet through my DSL modem/router (Westell VersaLink 327W). I'm pretty savvy about this kind of stuff but something is not working for me: Problem seems to be that I cannot communicate 192.0.0.X through the DSL modem (it's internal IP address is 192.168.1.1). I even tried connecting two PCs with static IP addresses (192.0.0.100, 192.0.0.101) and could not ping between them through the Westell. I tried disabling all of the security setting in the Westell (allow all traffic). Do I need a different router? Thanks folks, Dan